There are now 34 million gamers in Germany, and they're shifting away from PC

>he doesn’t know

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>spent $4.4 billion
>spending rising to $4.4 million
>a 9% increase over $4 billion
>with the majority being $1.5 million on in-app purchases

This article sucks

>country fills with thirdies
>console gamers on the rise

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I always thought Germany is still a pc focused country. Got any numbers that show when the shift to console and mobile happened?

The only game i play at this point is modded minecraft. Everything else i dont bother with on pc

3rd wordless are pc piratefags

t. 3rd worlder

this does not mean the gothic/stellaris/forklift simulator market is dying, it means the market for console and mobile games is growing faster than it. this is entirely expected, because the majority of people anywhere are absolute fucking retards. this reveals nothing about the profitability or health of the pc gaming scene. im going by gut feel here, but i believe pc gaming will remain profitable and survive thanks to a small nucleus of players who want to play Kingdom Come instead of marvel-themed connect-3 tile games with micropayments.

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Old-school Kraut PC gamer here.
Don't worry, I am not going anywhere.

How's Krautchan?

>players who want to play Kingdom Come instead of marvel-themed connect-3 tile games with micropayments
Kingdom come is available on consoles. All Kingdom Comes of the future will also be available on consoles.

Haven't been there for a while.
Last time I've checked it was still full of faggots.

>barely able to read or write anything but al qaeda characters
>able to find games on the internet to pirate

>phone "games"
cringe

It's just not worth it to maintain a gaming console nowadays. Almost all notable games are multiplats that run like shit on console and all console exclusives can't even run on the toasters they're released for. Sub-HD 25fps doesn't look very different this gen.

>Interestingly, however, a massive chunk of its sales have come from PC – more than 55% of all copies sold were for PC, with the Xbox One and PS4 combined were responsible for the remaining 45%.

You are behind

But you don't have to maintain a console.
And no games this gen are sub hd or 25 fps.

console market isn't growing, it's phones taking away from both PC & Consoles

Consoles have been hurt badly this gen & it's something no one wants to talk about, handhelds are dead & total console sales are around 150m, last gen they were almost 400mil counting handhelds

This is why Microsoft is trying to transistion to streaming, because normies are less likely to want to buy dedicated hardware for gaming now days

Krautchan died months ago
But don't worry, its successor is still full of actual pedos

Wasnt krautchan down?

Surely it's more likely that it's a simply a case of the PC gaming growing at a slower rate than console gaming? The use of "shifting" implies that PC users are abandoning that platform for console/mobile gaming.

Is that substantiated within the article? I don't want to read it myself as game journalism is cancer.

So, almost 50-50 share between pc and consoles. No reason for the sequel (or any other similar game) to give up on 50% of the sales.

it's not consoles that's growing, it's casuals moving to phones

I expect it's being auto translated from a German article and getting fucked on switching between long-scale and short-scale naming system for billion
Germany still uses long-scale billion which means a million millions. America and UK use short-scale billion, which is a thousand millions

there are some obscure games that I could only find al qaeda links for. Still not going to install that shit though, i don't trust pajeets to not put wirus in my polish SAS game

>But you don't have to maintain a console
Yes you do. you have to pay £10 a month online fees, you have to update it every time you switch it on, and you have to dust it off all the time because there's nothing to play on it so it sits there collecting dust.

I don't have to do any of that shit with my PC. I turn it on and it works.

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Who would've guessed that the majority of """gamers"""" in my country are retarded FIFA or FOTM game players? Consoleplebs should hang.

Cool.
I was wondering how they are doing these days.

Dumb nigger, KC is on consoles, Stellaris is coming to consoles, the gothic successor (Risen) is on consoles, * simulator games are on consoles.
RTS is dead as dead, RPGs have been consolised trash for nearly 2 decades now.
Pc gaming is literally dying because consoles are slowly bridging the technology gap and quickly becoming the more profitable market.
As soon as m&kb become natively supported, allowing the more niche genres to be accessible to the console audience at large and ports to be more straightforward and less involved (given the console shift to consumer components), there will be a massive shift towards the console market.

>Germanz are so robotic and autistic, Logitech launched a Forklift, Tractor and Farming Simulator series

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Only the point about online fees is valid. And that's only if you want to play multiplayer.
You have to update software on pc too and it needs to be cleaned even if you use it regularly. Double fail.

>as soon as consoles become pc's, pc's will die

all right, also the console market is declining too thanks to phones/tablets

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The answer is: Turks, Arabs and Niggers.

These are the demographics who play on console in Germany, and all they play is Fifa.

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>Pc gaming is literally dying because consoles are slowly bridging the technology gap and quickly becoming the more profitable market.
Consoles are literally becoming PCs, with all the disadvantages of PCs and none of the benefits. Also, they've been losing to smartphones for years. If anything consoles are going to die.

Are you okay, son?

>As soon as m&kb become natively supported,
already is, and it's entirely up to devs on if they want to use m&kb or not
FF14 on both PS3 and PS4 supported m&kb natively
devs just don't want to deal with that

This.

lmao you wish consolefag
imagine being too dumb you use a pc so you fantasize about everyone else being dragged down to your level

those pedals look fucking awful, they should just sell the thing on the right on its own to pair with a g25

>you have to update software on PC too
only if i want to. consoles literally wont even connect to the internet unless you have the latest firmware update, software update and paid your £10 fee

on PC i can turn it on and play. i clean it out once or twice a year which is more often than that dogshit ps4 has an excuse to be turned on

Console market isn’t declining, mobile market is growing.
>durr consoles are pcs
Ah yes, nothing says personal computer like unchangeable components, walled garden shop monopoly, the manufacturer dictating what gets published and charging money for your software to be let onto the platform and charging you to use your internet connection.

>and paid your £10 fee
You don't need to pay for updates

>study counts mobile shit
Ignore all results

Nintendo was pretty much forced to make Switch into a portable because of how popular phones in Japan are, if it was another home console like the Wii U, it would have died

Woah you mean the updates are FREE?
holy shit.... bros im selling my pc right now i want in on these FREE UPDATES oh shit im gonna CUM

What's the point of this post? You posted something that is factually incorrect and now you're acting like a retard.

stop shitposting,
you were wrong and user corrected you

>Console market isn’t declining

it is in both revenue & units sold

>German Population is aging and being replaced by rapefugees
>Gamers move from complex PC to ez mobiles and consoles
>This is surprising

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total units sold, yes
but revenue is higher than ever this gen

Wii, 360 & PS3 sold 270m units without upgrading models inflating their numbers
Switch, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, PS4 Pro & Xbox One X are around 160-170m units sold

Sony's handheld is dead & 3DS sold half of DS's units

and yet, PS+ has made Sony more money this year than the entirety of the PS2's lifespan

when did i ever say the updates were paid lmao

That's due to sony charging a monthly fee & increase in MTX, generally both PC & Consoles market share is getting smaller by a 1% each year compared to phones/tablets

consoles literally wont even connect to the internet unless you have the latest firmware update, software update and paid your £10 fee

You have to come up with imaginary flaws to justify pc gaming.

& this is why sony is pushing for PC gaming to die, they want you paying a fee to use their service, walled gardens are great huh

Even with MS, who evidently don’t give a shit about their console division profit, this gen had highest revenue ever.

>units sold
The PS4 is currently the 6th best selling console ever.

>consoles wont connect to the internet unless you have paid your £10 free
Explain this then

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it will outsell both the Wii and PS1 by Christmas

>just don't play online bro, consoles are fine

>put psnow on pc
>pushing for pc to die
The sad reality is that both Sony and Nintendo are completely apathetic to PCs existing.

see
the increase in MTX in games is due to the decline in overall console sales, they need to keep turning record profits & that has to come from somewhere

Not really, the casual wii market moved to phones for sure

I did say that the online fee is a valid point if you play multiplayer.
Still cheaper and more convenient than dealing with shitcoin miners, online cheaters, cpu socket changes, security vulnerabilities and gimmicks like rtx

This is more to do with people who usually buy all consoles not buying an Xbox One. Most of the PS3 owners also own an Xbox 360 and Wii.

sure it is

It sure is.

>gimmicks like RTX

lol, i bet you creamed yourself when sony & microsoft talked about ray tracing on consoles

Mobile and facebook mom games are not video games.

So - you know - fuck off.

>gotta include smartphone into the mix
Smartphones and consoles have next to nothing in common. Why mix them

really? all im noticing is mobile gaming growth

Microsoft and Sony exaggerate, but here's the difference between them and nvidia - consoles have actual influence. Hypothetically, if sony and microsoft want to push raytracing next gen, it will be a standard feature for sure. Nvidia can't influence shit. PhysX, hairworks, grassworks, and now rtx.

Honestly this, being a PCfag made alot more sense back when PC actually had its own exclusives and genres now even Valve has abandoned us and all we get is console ports that look prettier even all the PC specific game genres are virtually dead such as sim/tycoons, Arena FPS, RTS, point n' click adventures etc.

true, 30fps, no bc & paid online on consoles is the way to go

The problem is console games are 2-3 times more expensive in my slav shitland.

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This is flawed because its literally impossible to know how much money people are spending on PC unless they get figures off literally every 3rd party key reseller and stuff. With mobile and console it's easy because google, apple, Sony and MS have to declare how much money they made so they can be taxed on it and those ecosystems are all unified around those specific stores like XBL, PSN, App Store, Google Play etc. For all we know Germans might be spending more money on G2A than steam for cheaper deals but these people will never know that and will never know how much they spent either.

considering the hate campaign against G2A atm, it's probably a lot

>your face when every country leaves PC but BR's, Chinese, and Russians

Brazilians and Indians scared them away

hows backwards compatibility on consoles?

I'm not saying we should go to consoles but its understandable why the majority don't bother with building PCs when they can play all the same shit on a console and not have to worry about their specs and other stuff casual people don't care about, basically PCs have nothing to differentiate themselves from consoles anymore except pure performance which most people don't care about except enthusiast autismos like ourselves.

that's because consoles became locked down PC's

it was over the moment Professional Construction Simulator came to PS4

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>the people if one of the most cucked countries in the world are in favour of sucking corporate cock and paying for subscriptions
Any reason I should be surprised?

It’s all the immigrants who just play fifa on PS3

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>basically PCs have nothing to differentiate themselves from consoles anymore except pure performance
Nigga what? PC gaming has loads going for it compared to consoles from mods, the ability to actually play older games, cheaper deals all around, long lasting multiplayer servers/private hosted servers, ability to use any input device you want whether its kb+m, ps4 or xb1 controller or even older gen controllers etc etc. PC gaming objectively is the best platform you can game on because of the options it gives the player and how they can customise their experience to what they like. Ask even any casual gamer who plays a lot on console he would tell you if he could have a PC he would get one because PC gaming is like the pinnacle of the gaming experience due to the options it gives you. A lot of these casuals probably looked at prices in the last 2 years and saw them all fucked up because of crypto and weren't happy about it.

No

>basically consoles have nothing to differentiate themselves from PC's anymore except being gimped propietary underpowered shitboxes
ftfy
The only reason people buy consoles is because they fall for retarded marketing with multi-billion dollar budgets.

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Thread title is misleading. No one is ''shifting away'' from PC. It's just that smartphone gaming is a steady growing cancer I mean market and paid online, microtransaction garbage is scamming consolefags more than ever.

KC is dead. Long live KC!

Rapefugees can't comprehend PC gaming

I love how all console peasants gave themselves away the moment they use word exclusive and then they act like having more games to choose from is bad.

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Nobody cares about old shit dumbass the PC market in the 90s/early 2000s is a totally different landscape than today the average person doesn't care about playing decade old games and majority of the shit in that pic from 2008 on is ports/multiplats.

I always laugh at these obvious anti-PC news.

PC gaming is growing everywhere (even complicated markets like Japan) and it's going to keep growing more and more

German simulator devs on suicide watch!

It doesn't help that the two biggest PC platforms are controlled by console and a phone companies. Both of which are determined to shit their PC platforms up and reduce them into a locked down, advertising supported, pay per feature, subscription service required, console/mobile style nightmares.
People are generally unaware of alternatives that they can run on their PC hardware like GNU/Linux, so they drop the PC and go to consoles or mobile because they figure "If I'm going to have a shitty locked down experience anyway, I might as well not pay as much for it." Not realizing that they're walking into a trap which allows the platform owner like Microsoft or Apple to extract money from them far more efficiently.

People always forget how many exclusives Consoles have lost too, there is really only a handful left that Sony alone is paying to keep off PC

I thought it was common knowledge by now that PC is mainly made up of Americans and Asians.
Eurotards have been Sonyfags since at least 2010, and frankly I hope more of them fuck off to consoles so they can become even bigger autocratic walled garden shitholes for manchildren.

Granted MS is actually embracing PC somewhat now but yeah they suppressed the PC market for years until very recently and will probably do so again if Xbox makes a comeback next gen.

>Console market isn’t declining
>B-but handhelds don't count!
Tick tock consolecuck.
Just like how phones killed handhelds, streaming will kill consoles.

You do realize that the vast majority of digital console revenue for literally every major gaming company is from microtransactions, correct?
Even Sony receives kickback from every MTX sold on their marketplace, which is included in their PS+ revenue.
The console market in terms of units sold has shrunk astronomically, and is only really propped up because kids playing Fortnite and other F2P games spend literally billions on microtransactions every quarter.
EA alone makes over $1 billion every year in JUST microtransactions on consoles.

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>they suppressed the PC market for years until very recently and will probably do so again if Xbox makes a comeback next gen
Nah, Microsoft is betting all their cards on multi-platform gaming since they own Windows anyway and realize the PC gaming market is growing.
Even fucking nipponland is porting games to PC by the bushes.

>African Muslims don't know how to build PCs
Huh

In fact, EA in general (like all shitty companies) is propped up by consoleniggers.
Namely Eurotards buying Fifa and spending billions of dollars on Fifa microtransactions.
Even phoneniggers don't give EA as much money as consolefags.
It's not even close in fact.

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This. Europoors and Canadians are the reason microtransactions exist

Women.

I'm not sure I'd call attempting to Embrace & Extend the existing PC gaming market a positive thing since we all know the third stage of Microsoft's business plan is Extinguish.
Never forget their ultimate goal is to lock down the PC so they can extract console-style fees, and Windows 10 finally gives them the ability to do that.

>mobile
shitty clickbait, shitty troll thread

>Handheld market is dead, so dead that consolefags don't even want to call handhelds consoles anymore
>Xbox bombed, WiiU bombed, only real competing platforms are Switch, PS4, and PC
>Consoles have lost 90% of their exclusive titles/franchises in just 6 years
>We went from having 3 home consoles last gen with 15-25 worthwhile exclusives each to having 1 platform with a total of 8 exclusives, only 2 of which are at all worth even looking at, 1 platform with maybe 10 worthwhile exclusives, 1 platform that had 10-15 worthwhile exclusives but failed miserably, and 1 platform with 5 or 6 worthwhile exclusives and a bunch of ports from the previous platform
It really is kind of sad how far consoles have fallen in such a short time, even as an idort this is the first time I've ever felt like I didn't really gain anything by owning consoles. Even the Switch has some weak output compared to what we got last gen, and I didn't even bother with actually buying a PS4 since it turns out I legit wasn't missing out on...really anything.

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My main platform is ps4 and since I had a ps3, my account is worth thousands. I can't just move to Steam. I have a mod range pc which I use to emulate games and play pc exclusive stuff. I had my autism csgo phase and autism LoL phase as well, but I'll always be a braindead consolefag honestly.

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>consolefags don't even want to call handhelds consoles anymore
when the fuck did they ever

Redpilled

Does anyone except HUEs and russkies even play on PC?

When the PSP and DS were popular.

>There are now 34 million gamers in Germany, and they're shifting away from PC
Well yeah, they're replacing the Germans with Africans, of course the numbers are going to shift to consoles.

I stopped playing on consoles because online on consoles is walled garden trash full of annoying assholes and thin-skinned retards.
Somehow there have been less PS4 exclusives released than PC exclusives this year, so I guess I made the right decision.

They aren't germans they're rapefugees who get PS4 and fifa

FORMERLY

>Germany still uses long-scale billion
What do you mean, still? As if the short scale was better

It's kinda sad we had PSP sell 80m & DS 150m last gen with tons of great exclusives, yet this gen we got vita & 3ds that sold just over 80m combined with barely any good exclusives

increasing budgets & phones were a death knell to the handheld market

those pathetic losers only play work simulators, its fine

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