This is a good example of why super broad statistics over short time frames are a really bad idea.
I can think of a million reasons as to why there might be more or less sales, to explain anything. As a result you can’t really derive anything from this.
One of the big issues is they include mobile gaming spending in with other gaming spending. These are two very different groups of people with different levels of investment.
Translation: “We’re no longer posting record profits each quarter and even though we still make enough money to not really care we’re going to complain about it. BUY OUR SHIT YOU INGRATES!!”
Number arbitrary. Number. Must. Go. Up.
It’s grow or die around here sonny GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH EVERY SECOND
I mean for consoles, makes sense, Microsoft focuses on gamepass (so less physical is being bought), Sony 1st party studios basically released a single game this year (Spiderman 2), and nintendos year has (mostly) been quiet outside of TOTK due to it being the end of the switches lifetime, as id guess next year a new device will be announced.
For pc, it spiked heavily during covid because everyone was at home, so coming out of covid time period was guaranteed to have a drop in sales.
Not necessarily.
Many held off buying a PC because they couldn’t get a GPU due to crypto mining slurping it up. When they came back, they price for years old hardware was scandalous. People held off, until they finally needed to update that hardware. Guessing that upgrade queue has been worked down somewhat.
The gpu buying window was mainly 2022, 2023 would signal a downturn because new gpus were badly priced and the most popular price points released bad gpus. Its of the reasons AMD market share grew much more this year over Nvidia, as those who only used Nvidia had non optimal options.
Not buying a PS5 because there was a shortage and now too expensive. Bought an older GPU and held off on updating CPU due to price.
Things need to normalise otherwise I’ll just go back to books or touching grass
Get a handheld PC like a Steam Deck and you can touch grass while gaming.
