That´s a very US centric viewpoint - the industry wasnt wiped out in Europe and Asia. Homecomputers ruled!
The console market — including hardware, software and services — is set to rebound 7.2 per cent this year to $60.9bn, after a 7.3 per cent decline in 2022, according to data from Ampere Analysis, the research group.
It was the trend at the start of 2023 for big games:
f2p, and many emerging markets are PC-centric
Well, that's 3b or whatever amount of devices is it for you.
Arcade isn't dead everywhere. 2 billion is probably fair.
Yup. Plenty of Arcades in my town, and a great retro one as well.
Home computers didn't rule in the US after the crash. PC revenue declined steadily after the crash and did not recover as quickly as console. PC gaming revenue didn't bounce back until the late 1980's when IBM PC clones started to standardize the PC market and developers had a relatively consistent platform to focus on.
Even something as disgusting and dishonourable as Apple hardware would have been better for "PC" gaming in the 80s, or computer gaming as it was called then.
Hence why Sony wants to move into that market. There’s money to be made there.
Was Commodore really that big in the US? Wasnt it more Apple 2 dominated?
Considering the handheld line disappears around the 2018/2019 timeframe it's pretty clear that Switch is counted in console and Steam Deck is not included in handheld. I'd bet it's in PC if it's included.
None in my town, or the towns I have lived in (North West England) since they all shut down about 20-25 years ago, there is Arcade Club about an hour away though which is supposedly the largest arcade in Europe which I am going to on Saturday. Mostly retro games though (that's not a bad thing). Even Blackpool, which used to have dozens of game arcades are now just full of slot machines, coin drop machines etc. no arcade games in sight (except, again, an Arcade Club (much smaller one) for retro games). I think the UK in general has just turned its back on proper games arcades)
I live in Blackpool.
www.arcains.co.uk
Just overall video game revenue was down because of the console and arcade crash of late 1983 in the US. If you look at the chart, the PC/Computer gaming portion actually grows between 1983-1985. New console games between 84-86 slowed down to a trickle, but computer gaming took off then.
The C64 was a hit in the US between 1983 and the early 90s. The C64, along with the Apple II was probably the biggest gaming platforms between 1983 and 1987/88 in the US. The NES didn't hit mass market until around 1987. Not sure where you are getting that 90% number from. Plenty of companies made games in the US for Commodore, Apple, Atari and PC computers during the 80's. Companies such as Electronic Arts, Activision, Epyx, Lucasfilm Games, Atari, Origin, Microprose, Sierra, SSI, Infocom and others made a ton of computer games in the 80's.
Out of 3631 games less than 100 were NTSC releases. So thats roughly 2.8%
There was a lot more consumer money for this sort of thing in the US than Europe in the 80s. In the US the C64 was seen as a very low-end curiosity that people quickly got bored with and moved on to the next bigger and better thing, while in Europe it was seen as a mid-budget staple for a longer period of time. Apple computers were very rare in the UK, and the only kid who I ever knew who had one or even knew what it was, was the son of an oil industry worker who worked in the Middle East, or something.
Right, and why is that considered mobile? AR and VR sales aren't even close to topping any part of this chart lmao.
Wow, I'm on mobile right now and I can barely use that old school site. Not sure what I'm looking at, but it looks like a bunch of games, files and demos. I clicked on Mindscape for example, which was a US based publisher back then and all it talks about is the types of copy protection they used for their software.
www.lemon64.com
