Basically non F2P games and excludes DLC/MTX revenue.
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Had the feeling HD2 was bigger in PC than console, seems I was right. I think PC will end up having the majority of the sales of the game LTD.
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PC is the biggest platform, thatās honestly not surprising. Other Sony games sell bad there because they donāt t release day 1, while Helldivers 2 did and is quite cheap to buy as well.
If they start releasing games day 1 theyāll somewhat cannibalise like what happened to Xbox, but sales would go up a lot imo for their first party games.
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50m is wild, at this point, your company not targeting mobile is self sabotage
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I have the feeling future generations of gamers will migrate to mobile and PC. It is anecdotal but I have a 10 years old cousin who, eventhough heās a spider man fan, wants to buy a PC because heās favorite streamer plays dead by dayligh on it and also plays stumble guys on her motherās cellphone (he tells me everyone on his class play stumble gus).
I think people are not paying attention to the amount of influence twitch and platformas like that have over the ācasualā crowd and all of those big streamers play on PC . Thats the big reason why Helldivers 2 exploded.
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Until Microsoft pull an ET crash level, itās safe to say the platform is safe.
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Yep twitch blowing up I feel has had a major impact on the popularity of PC
Pretty much every major streamer out there is on PC these days and when your fans see the things they do and say, of course itās going to influence them
As for mobile, mobile isnāt going to slow down, everyone has a phone these days even if itās not for gaming and they will only continue to get stronger and more efficient
and at some point scaling tech will get good enough that a phone version isnāt really that far of a console version and at that point if you already have a powerful phone that could play games, the whole console appeal kind of goes down
We are already seeing traditional consoles starting the head the way of portability with the Switch and Steam Deck, thatās only going to increase
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Yup. This is one of the most important games launch from Microsoft this year. Guess what ā¦ none of the social media console war participants are talking about it. Thats an indicator that whatever theyāre talking about is out of touch with reality.
Mobile games have always done huge numbers, even last gen, this is nothing new. Traditional gamers just donāt talk about mobile games because the audiences are completely different.
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I think the difference is now the big companies and publishers are starting to take it seriously unlike last gen
Sony and MS realise that itās an area they need to pursue
Sure but I donāt think that means people who donāt care about mobile games should suddenly care about it.
Mobile gamers certainly donāt care about Elden Ring, BG3, Avowed, etc etc of the worlds.
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They should when theyāre speaking specifically about what gaming company is dead and what gaming company is alive or winning. That was the point I made that maybe you didnāt notice. I wasnāt talking about gamers, I was talking about the online warriors. You were the one who said gamers when I never said gamers. The online warriors are intentionally being ignorant and burrying their head in a hole because it doesnt fit their narratives.
Sure but your statement applies to the vast majority of traditional gamers as well.
COD Mobile Warzone is going make more money than all of the first party games Xbox releases this year combined, yet the overwhelming discussion in this thread will be about the health of gamepass and hardware.
Does that make everyone in here intentionally ignorant ? I donāt believe so, I believe it just means they view hardware and mobile as 2 separate platforms even if Microsoft owns both.
Lol Iām just hoping with the wild success of CoD Mobile doesnāt lead to phones becoming a dominant platform.
Iām getting old and I donāt want to have to use magnifying glasses to play! 
(Tongue in cheek btw, I know consoles are here for ages and Iāll go along with whatever happens, before anyone thinks Iām serious!)
True but the more that these companies start pursuing mobile the more it may start to effect the console side in different ways
Theyāre already the dominant platform.
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Agreed. Whether thatās a positive or negative in the long term, weāll have to see.
Lol Iād be so screwed if they fully took over, I see both my parents with phones bigger than mine but their text size is set so large only 5 words at a time of a text message can be read.
And to do so they still hold it about 4 foot from their face.
Hopefully theyāll sort ācast to TVā from phones (it generally sucks a bit atm) before I reach their age lol
Yeah, it kind of does if theyāre willfully ignoring the reality when talking about gaming business.
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