[weezing]

Their gaming marketshare is minuscule both on PCs and consoles already. It's a downward spiral for years already.

[onli]

Windows still has a huge gaming marketshare on PC, and Microsoft as publisher is still a big player. You mean something else?

[laughing_man]

That's not true. It's actually spiraling the other direction now. Consoles just don't have the value proposition they used to have. You can buy a general purpose PC for the same price as a console that has better performance and also allows you to do your taxes.

[chocochunks]

No you can't. Even at the raised prices. And if your argument includes used prices don't forget you can buy used consoles too.

[laughing_man]

Sure you can. Remember, we're not buying a normal gaming PC, just one that's better than a console.

[chocochunks]

I know. But iGPUs aren't there yet, and once you add a discrete GPU it becomes a lot more expensive. You can get a PS5 digital at GameStop for $400 new right now. A decent similar GPU like a Arc 580 or Radeon RX 7600 or 6600 is going to be $200-$300 new, leaving you $200 for a case, CPU, RAM and power supply.

[mvdtnz]

According to my google searching XBox has almost a quarter of the console gaming market share. Hardly miniscule.

[pinkmuffinere]

wow that's interesting. Where is the gaming share moving, if not pc and consoles? I guess hand-held devices (do those not count as consoles?) and phones?

[laughing_man]

Mobile is the 900 pound gorilla in the games space through sheer volume, but it really depends on what you're measuring. Revenue per user is console > PC > mobile, but total gaming revenue is more like mobile > console > PC.

But here we're putting Candy Crush in the same category as GTA V, so I'm not sure we're really comparing apples to apples.

[Narishma]

They're talking about Microsoft's gaming marketshare.