Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 day agoYep. PC players tend to be very outspoken, but they’re easily outnumbered by the console market, and the mobile market dwarfs them both.
irate944@piefed.social 1 day ago
I don’t think this is the case nowadays. I remember reading an article that PC market was outselling the console market.
But yes, the mobile market is a giant
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The console market is also cyclical. Like, when a new console is released, that’s a huge impact that doesn’t really have an analog in the PC video gaming world.
It looks like both the Xbox Series X and S and the PS5 came out in North America right around the beginning of that surge:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Series_X_and_Series_S
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s going to be interesting to watch the next three years or so give or take and what kind of impact the RAM market and processor market are going to have on PC gaming versus console gaming.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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