• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    It’s not the PC industry, it’s the PC gaming industry.

    ie: almost exclusively games sold for PC platform/Windows.

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      10 months ago

      Right. Just saying that when the size of the PC industry is so much bigger, is it any surprise whatsoever that PC gaming also dominates? I would have expected no other result.

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        10 months ago

        It’s not surprising at all but that’s not why. More people use laptops or office PCs for daily driving and work. Those are not going to work for a ton of games like a console will.

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          10 months ago

          To the contrary, the vast majority of all games that exist do not require a robust system. Especially given the rise of microtransactions.

          Don’t lose sight of what games in the world are actually the most popular. It’s not high-end stuff. It’s Candy Crush and shit.

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            10 months ago

            Don’t lose sight of what games in the world are actually the most popular. It’s not high-end stuff. It’s Candy Crush and shit.

            You’re right, those games are popular and very profitable and you don’t need a PC to play them. You’re just going to play them on mobile. You know what you’re not going to play on mobile? PC games.

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                10 months ago

                You’re just cherry-picking an example. No, I mean like the thousands of games that are released every year that won’t run or aren’t available on the most powerful of mobile devices. Not to mention the ones that just suck on a small display.

                What are you even doing? Are you really trying to make the point that there’s zero delineation between mobile and PC games?

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                  No, I’m expressing my point that the main reason PC gaming is so much bigger than console gaming is because the number of available machines is many times higher. Someone replied that most PCs are not specced to play games. I countered by saying most games don’t require strong specs, because the most popular games are almost always garbage.

                  League of Legends is my current example since apparently Candy Crush didn’t adequately communicate my point. There are plenty of other examples I could come up with if my point is still not understood.

                  Why is this so bothersome?

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                    10 months ago

                    It’s bothersome that you refuse to acknowledge that the vast majority of popular/profitable PC games are not playable on cheap, office-grade, low-end hardware. And that you insist on cherry-picking a handful of examples that do as representative of the majority.

                    There are certainly a wide variety of popular/profitable mobile games that you can’t/don’t play on PC either for compatibility or because they’re unavailable, or because they’re tailored to touchscreen devices.