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Headline is a smidge misleading. “PC gaming has a larger revenue than console gaming in the US” is more accurate. It’s certainly not true in other parts of the world.
It would be interesting to see an overall data, considered many part of the world (like China) consoles like Playstation and Xbox aren't even a thing.
Places like China even gaming PCs aren't really a thing. They mostly play on mobile, because that's pretty much all they can realistically afford.
I am from China. I think your opinion is not true.
Chinese people is not rich, but take a month income to buy a console , it is affordable.
The fact is the strict scrutiny from the CCP and pervasive plundering of people’s privacy and the cognitive manipulation of people through the data algorithms of technology companies causing this.
In China, all the legal games need being approved by the CCP’s government, and the legal consoles just have about one hundred games approved .
The technology companies like tencent have almost all the internet portals or other Internet information channels. And almost all the Chinese internet companies must structure their CCP branch, serving for the CCP’s power, and must provide the authority delete, block, and review any information to the CCP.
In China, any information the Chinese people have received must serve the benefits of the Chinese Communist Party, let alone go against it.
That’s why Chinese people are addicted in the mobile games. Almost every console game is legally banned and the console games have only a small amount of exposure and traffic.
the console gamer in China face tough technical difficulties from the CCP to buy and download/transport. Mobile games have huge propaganda. Even the former Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary/Current Prime Minister of the State Council of China Li Qiang stand up for mobile games “genshin impact“.
To be briefly, In China the console game cannot bring benefits to the CCP, it provided the culture anti CCP’s values. That’s what the CCP opposes.
Thanks for the context here! This was super interesting.
My pleasure.
Gaming cafes equipped with gaming PCs is a pretty big market in China. Even if they can't afford to own one personally, lots of Chinese people game on PC.
It’s not exact.
In fact, gaming cafe is relatively rare in China, especially the blockade and control during the COVID-19 struck it hard.
The Chinese people mostly use the PC at home. It’s cheaper than go to the gaming cafe. It’s because the house prices and rent in China is very high, cause by the CCP monopolized all the land trade in the market. They called that “socialist public ownership”, it means all resources in China legally belong to the CCP, includes the lands.
The very important reason Chinese people game on the PC is that the CCP needs the PCs to “help building a great country”. So it can’t be banned. Then lots of people pretend to buy it for work, but actually use it for gaming or other entertainment most of the time…
That’s why the Biden government banned the AI using by China. The CCP will definitely use it to enhance its military capabilities and international influence.
Yes but theyre nowhere near the prevalence of mobile phones. They might game a bit on PC but the money they might be spending on PC is dwarfed by mobile phone. Thats not to mention the time limits they have on gaming due to law. Additionally, most cafe PCs have preinstalled games and people in general don't buy games to install on cafe PCs.
You forget how big the Chinese population is. Even if only a fifth of their population is able to get a gaming PC, then that's pretty much all of US population.
But now compare it to places where consoles literally don't exist or are in such minor numbers? Fuck it. Take China alone.