Friday 30 September 2011

PC gaming on the up.


Woo!

It's news that we've all been wanting for a while. If by 'all', you mean 'PC gamers'. And by 'PC gamers', you mean 'the pretentious ones who care'. But who else counts really?

So apparently PC gaming figures are climbing back up above consoles again. Since people have started taking digital purchases into account alongside retail (duhh), the numbers has risen again. PC gamers abandoned traditional game stores a long time ago, so it's nice to see the numbers reflect that.

Here's a colourful image that explains it all, courtesy of Ignite.

The one at the bottom seems a little confusing. Surely they could have picked a better month than July 2010? Seems like it was a little PC biased in that example.

But hey, good news for all. Hopefully developers will soon admit that the PC isn't as dead as they'd hoped.

Woops, did I say 'hoped'?

Credit: Destructoid and ExtremeTech.