The article doesn't cite anything because the presentation, if the research proves to be an accurate representation of the global gaming market , strongly suggests that the core gaming market on PC is dead.
I agree that the article is ridiculous, even stupid. But Nvidia isn't the problem especially since AMD has followed suit. The reality is also that PC core gaming is weaker than ever. What this article doesn't reference is the fact that PC grew 20% because of GAAS and live service games played by children who live mostly in Asian nations. The presentation cites Roblox and Fortnite as well as Genshin Impact PUBG and other hero shooter style games. League of Legends was surprisingly low ...
You know it especially when they missed the fact that driving PC's marketshare are what the presentation classified as "hyper-casual" games and that the mobile marketshare is 220% larger than the entire PC and console market combined also driven by the same always online GAAS games we seem to all agree is destroying gaming to some extent or another.
PC is growing because of Roblox and Fortnite... but this is supposed to be great news?
The presentation this article is based on shows that PC gamers are likely all hyper-casual children playing Roblox and Fortnite which are always online GAAS games we all claim to hate so much, but as I said this is what is driving PC's growth in marketshare.
@NotoriousWhiz
MY TIME HAS COME!
At slide 59 we see the title, "Twenty years ago, PC' S share of non-mobile content spend was 29%. It's now 53%. And while console has stagnated since 2021, PC has grown 20%"
It shows a bar graph and the important bits are outlined in the title. In 2021 the PC market was about 49% of the pie while consoles were 51% of the pie. The revenue split was 4% favoring consoles.
In 2024 PC revenues grew by 20% from $...
I'd be pretty impressed if GTA6 appears on Switch 2. We don't know how powerful Switch 2 will be yet, but we can make educated guesses. My presumption is that it will be weaker than PS4 Pro. This means my PC will still run circles around Switch 2 and on top of that I wouldn't expect Switch 2 to compare favorably to iPhone 15 Pro Max which is somehow weaker than the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra based on most of the UL Benchmark scores. And remember how bad Switch's battery life wa...
I doubt it will be an alternate C-Stick.
As IGN has mentioned I think it could be an alternative capture key.
Speaking of, I wonder if Switch 2 will have better game DVR features?
@Jolska420
The rear touchpad on Vita acted as a scroll wheel in the systems included web browser.
You can actually use the touch pads on DS4 and DualSense controllers as cursors on Android 10 and up (Android 5.1 and up if you have a Sony Xperia phone) with the touchpad button being used as mouse select, and it works well. Ignoring the button under the PS controllers touchpads, the capacitive touchpads on laptops are literally exactly the same as those in PS4 and PS...
@JEECE
"...it was delivered poorly and the attempt to shoehorn it into a "censorship" concern is pretty hamfisted."
This is where we disagree. Censorship can include things that in this case the developers don't want users to do with their content. This is what is happening by not releasing on the platform that offers the greatest ability to modify game contents. This can of course be done almost as easily on a console so long as the console is alread...
@jambola
You now want the developers to do something they don't want to do. You don't understand that they just don't want to put their game on PC and this upsets you, but it is their choice.
I think more people actually enjoyed Astro Bot. The game is already showing that it has some staying power as well with respect to its continuing, albeit undeservedly slow, sales success.
This happens every year and to be fair we all kind of feel various amounts of bitterness sometimes when games that do something unique and are fun to us get snubbed for GOTY for some safe sequels or bland boring and sometimes even totally broken messes of a game that was loved by mass medi...
'DON'T YOU SEE!? THIS IS BMW VS AB! ASTRO BOT CAN NOT BE BETTER THAN BLACK MYTH WOKONG BECAUSE W-W-WELL ***PC IS WAY BETTER THAN CONSOLES!!!*** *****ESPECIALLY THE ●●●●● PS5 AND IT'S RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE "PRO" COUNTERPART!!!!!*****
OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A CONSPIRACY FROM PLAYSTATION TO SHUT OUT CHINESE DEVELOPED GAMES -- AND FORGET THAT YOU CAN BUY BOTH GAMES ON THAT CONSOLE MADE FOR THE PEASANTS!' - basically a quote from the gaming press before the guys in w...
FXAA is 13 years old. MSAA is almost 20 years old.
@Chevalier
Forza is Microsoft's IP from start to present.
Gears was Epic's baby, Halo famously belonged to Bungie, and Elder Scrolls was Bethesda's IP, but Forza was created by Microsoft to compete against PlayStation's Gran Turismo and we all see how that went. Forza Horizon 5 is the most popular Forza game in the IP's history. None of the Forza Motorsport games outsold GT (except maybe GT PSP) and Forza Horizon only gained real traction by 5 d...
They didn't even compare PSSR to anything. It wasn't mentioned once in the article outside of the headline. How was this approved?
How could accounting account for losses of games not able to show performance metrics of any kind whatsoever?
They can't. This was a decision coming from leadership within PS WWS not some pencil-pusher in accounting.
People also forget that the reason PS and Sony at large are moving away from merit-based hiring and what the fans want also has something to do with placating the shareholders and management has a legal obligation to fluff these people...
We can only assume. Very few live service games are any good, but we don't even know what any of these were. Not that PS has made any forever games. The closest Sony got to that was Jak and Daxter and that's only in my personal opinion based on my personal proclivity of picking up and playing every version released since their original release on PS2.
PS5 was designed in America.
This is an unusual move for any business, but especially unusual in Korea.
If you know, you know.
Really, I've been playing MSFS 2020 for years on my PC and now it won't launch. Same HW, nothing about my PC changed except driver, OS, and game/launcher updates, but games I was playing now don't even work. This •••• happens all the time on PC... ALL THE TIME!