To be fair these are very different markets. They're priced and marketed differently and mobile games even showing up at "real" gaming events regularly gets met with hostility from the audience attending. It's not that consoles and PC gaming is going down. It's that a whole second market has emerged. What's probably gone down is freeware and browser games.
I would prefer to see a graph with each platforms total revenue to see if pc and console are really going down, I feel like this is somewhat deceptive that it's %of total revenue.
This isn't depicting the "rise of mobile gaming", it's depicting the rise of profit from mobile gaming. They've gotten far better at convincing people to pay for microtransactions, but I'd really like to see a chart of actual usage of each platform rather than its revenue.
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NockerJoe on August 30th, 2019 at 07:47 UTC »
To be fair these are very different markets. They're priced and marketed differently and mobile games even showing up at "real" gaming events regularly gets met with hostility from the audience attending. It's not that consoles and PC gaming is going down. It's that a whole second market has emerged. What's probably gone down is freeware and browser games.
beerisgood27 on August 30th, 2019 at 08:49 UTC »
I would prefer to see a graph with each platforms total revenue to see if pc and console are really going down, I feel like this is somewhat deceptive that it's %of total revenue.
fuck_im_dead on August 30th, 2019 at 09:24 UTC »
This isn't depicting the "rise of mobile gaming", it's depicting the rise of profit from mobile gaming. They've gotten far better at convincing people to pay for microtransactions, but I'd really like to see a chart of actual usage of each platform rather than its revenue.