PC Dominant Platform Through 2022

PC will stay the dominant platform for the next couple of years based on the latest research from Open Gaming Alliance (OGA) and DFC Intelligence. It is expected to be worth $35 billion in 2022. The report covers the 2022 year-terminate and covers all aspect of the PC gaming manufacture worldwide through 2022. The PC market is expected to grow from $26 billion in 2022 to $35 billion in 2022.

DFC annotator David Cole, explained that growth is driven past demographics, and the cadre group of PC gamers keeps increasing in buying power:

"Much of the growth is driven by pure demographics. We keep to identify a cadre group of consumers for whom playing on the PC is a major pastime. This is, in fact, a fairly new demographic that skews highly male and is simply increasing in buying power."

OGA board fellow member, Matt Ployhar, antiseptic that a major reason for PC's dominance is its accessibility to all markets, more choices and freedom, and its more sociable nature:

"The recipe that keeps PC gaming on acme is simple: the platform is accessible to all markets, and especially so with the free-to-play and freemium content; the hardware continues to evolve with gamers' lifestyles, offer more choice and liberty; and, due to the ubiquity of PC's globally, it's easier to share, communicate and exist more sociable with friends and family. These same factors, in office, besides aid explain the meteoric ascension of eSports."

In endmost David Cole, ended that the platform'south adoption in Asia has had a major impact, as well as the expansive spending on expensive hardware equipment:

"In by years much of the growth in PC games has been due to adoption of the platform in Asia. At present we are estimating a potential 86 million PC gamers outside Asia that we have targeted as market growth drivers. These are the consumers that are driving spending non merely on software, but also on PC hardware, as they buy expensive equipment to play, view and tape games."

PC dominance over consoles tin be observed in the following graph, provided by OGA