[hajile]

Xbox One sold 57.9M and Series family has sold 28.3M by mid 2024.

PS4 sold 117M and PS5 sold 61.7M by mid 2024.

Nintendo claims 150.9M Switch consoles sold as of the end of 2024.

That puts Microsoft at around 20.7%, Sony at 43%, and Nintendo at about 36.3%.

Even if you exclude Nintendo with a "no-true-gamer" fallacy, Microsoft still has just 32.5% of the market.

Windows was over 90% in 2007 and is just 72% today. If you include the super-important mobile market, Windows actual marketshare is something like 10-15% and even less if you include servers (where even most Azure servers run Linux).

[JohnHaugeland]

I said presence share, not market share

Three total customers exist worldwide. All three have red square, two have yellow square, and one has blue square

Blue square sold one in six items, so it has one sixth market share. Blue square is one in three households, so it has one third presence share

[pjmlp]

Yes, if we are counting only game consoles, now if we count game studios owned by each company, and they earnings across all platforms, it is a complete different picture.

Microsoft owns PC, and even Valve has forced to emulate Windows/DirectX to have any games on SteamDeck.

The amount of office worker typing Excel sheets on mobile phones is rather tiny.

[hajile]

Even if you look at just computer games, Windows has a smaller share than any time since the 1980s.

If you include the massive mobile gaming market, Windows gaming is an even tinier percentage of the overall market (maybe even <10%).

[pjmlp]

Have you ever played Windows games on the 1980's?

That would be a first.

What matters is where money is, and how much of those games trace back to Microsoft owned studios.

Good example with mobile games though, as it is a good example of Valve's failure to capitalise on 80% of mobile games being run with OpenGL/Vulkan, on a Linux like platform, and yet they have to translate Win32/DirectX, as means to get games on SteamDeck.

[JohnHaugeland]

The PC’s share of gaming, according to EA, by dollars spent, is 23%, the second largest slice behind iOS, larger than any of the consoles

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