Sorry, but who is trading in their Mass Effect and Call of Duty for Angry-Birds?
Yes, console sales are shrinking, and tablet/phone market is growing, but it's NOT because people are leaving consoles for Tablets, that's just a silly assumption.
Console gamers are still playing games, they just aren't buying them. There is such a huge used market, they are endlessly cycling through that and the market is saturated, it's reaching a point where everyone who wants an xbox has probably got one by now.
The people buying tablets are people like my mum, and older art-student sister, who never considered playing any kind of "core" video game.
And how do you measure growth in the PC market? How can you tell the difference between a PC bought for general browsing + word processing and one for gaming? Even gaming capable ones often don't have any games installed on them!
Yes, console sales are shrinking, and tablet/phone market is growing, but it's NOT because people are leaving consoles for Tablets, that's just a silly assumption.
Console gamers are still playing games, they just aren't buying them. There is such a huge used market, they are endlessly cycling through that and the market is saturated, it's reaching a point where everyone who wants an xbox has probably got one by now.
The people buying tablets are people like my mum, and older art-student sister, who never considered playing any kind of "core" video game.
And how do you measure growth in the PC market? How can you tell the difference between a PC bought for general browsing + word processing and one for gaming? Even gaming capable ones often don't have any games installed on them!