Report – Annual shipment of PC hardware is twice that of consoles

4….3….2….1….

And? I have 3 PC at home, 0 of them for gaming. Most of PC buy for work, not for somebody call gaming

Wow and Microsoft still calls games on xbox and pc xbox exklusives.

ASSEMBLE THE ALLIANCE!

In retrospect, the whole alliance thing sounds kindy silly.

I just spend $950 on a DIY PC. It’ll run games just fine, but like loki pointed out, it is mostly for video/audio editing and other programs.

That’s just plain good news.

“In retrospect, the whole alliance thing sounds kindy silly.”

It’s definitely a silly name but I wouldn’t say the concept itself sounds more ridiculous than big companies slam-dunking each other at childish press conferences and in NPD-sales-release aftermaths. Getting some stats like these out doesn’t hurt anyone.

What the “Alliance” does need to do a lot more is looking at the problems of the platform it’s trying to defend and what some of its “proud” members aren’t doing to advance it. MS should feel ashamed of themselves.

Hahaha…sorry about that but just cant help it after reading this article. Oh…think I pissed in my pants…oh wel.

Anyways..even my grandma have a computer that CAN run some games. But do she? Fuck no….people love computers for youtube and facebook!!!

The Pc Gaming Alliance thank you for making me laugh…no realy…thank you!

Thats because many PC gamers I know replace their PC’s (or at leats most of the internals) virtually annually. I’m sayings its because they break, they just want to upgrade.

Seeing as actual PC game sales dont match this, its obvious the hardwares main use isnt gaming. Nice use of spin from the PC Gaming Alliance though, Fox News should hire them.

@1 This is NOT full PC’s, this can include accesories, raw parts etc. Add things like controllers to the second figure and then we will talk.

What a load of utter horseshit.

Also, if this was realistic, then piracy is much, much bigger than anyone ever imagined on PCs.

(Oh, and my laptop has a discrete GPU… I sure as shit couldn’t game properly on it though)

@ 10.
Remember PC game sales do not include digital downloading – which is a very very big market.

The reason why PC games dont sell over the counter very well, is because retailers just dont give them the shelf space and when they do, its The Sims, WOW/blizzard titles and thats it!

The fact Starcraft 2 sold over 1 million copies on its first day shows that the pc market IS there and considering this was on a single format and FIFA last year sold 1.7 million across 4 formats, gives you an idea just how big the PC market is.

However, the PC gamer wont spend their money on a shoddy port, which counts for probably 75% of new releases.

They do when you look at the figures from the publishers Grimrita… and the only major publisher gets more action on the PC that anywhere else is Blizzard (which shouldn’t really come as any surprise).

I don’t know why there is so much hate for pc games and pc gamers. Is this not where the hardcore were born, and many still remain?

I game on both pc and my ps3, ps3 is more convenient by just having it all there to start with, but having a pc means you have a big back catalogue to work through.

@14 FIFA’s sales last year were closer to 10 mil than 2 mil across all formats if not over 10 mil…silly bugger! lol

PC is a valuable tool and it’s used not only for gaming.

Personally, I’ll always get the PC version of a game. Otherwise I’m stuck playing on console hardware that was created almost a decade ago. In fact, my consoles are primarily used for exclusives, nothing else, many of which have been extremely disappointing.

Sure, not everyone can afford a PC or has the (minimal) level of intelligence needed to use it, but that’s no reason to get your panties in a twist.

I don’t even have a discrete GPU, and I never want to game on a PC becuase it’s the most horrendously inconsistent experience.

Steam is the only thing that stops PC users from regularly turning into monitor slamming, internet memes.

lots of potential of course, but still it seems like there is no big developer/publisher(except for blizzard and valve) be able to grab this potential market by creating game that optimise PC capability over console(DX11,mouse keyboard,community). All of those big developer were beaten by small indie developer that knows how to take care of their costumer well.
just my opinion though!

What a lot of you guys fail to realize is how big the PC gaming market is outside of the US and UK. It dominates online gameplay worldwide. Xbox Live didn’t even cater to a significant portion of countries worldwide until early this year with the launch of the Slim.

“The report states revenues from consumer gaming capable PCs with a discrete GPU (excludes Netbooks and integrated graphics-based PCs) totaled approximately $54.6 billion in 2009 and are forecasted to grow to $61.3 billion by 2014.”

Discrete GPUs – This is specifically for gaming and high-end media PCs.
Integrated – Serves the average consumer who is satisfied with basic media and flash games.
That report clearly excludes the latter market so the overal report could indeed be accurate.

The PC is without question the best gaming platform. PC exclusives are rare for one reason, piracy. It is incomparably easy to pirate a PC game over an Xbox game. The latter needs to be hardware modded, whereas the first just requires you to download software.

If I had to choice between my PC and any or all of my consoles in the house.

I would keep the PC. Sure it does more then just games. But don’t the PS3, xb360, and Wii also claim to do more then just games? Infact it is one of their often touted selling features. And while we are talking Games, PC can games just fine. PC gamers have been playing online and in HD before the consoles could even think about such a thing.

Sure the article from those guys seems fishy. But it don’t matter, my pc isn’t going anywhere.