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>- PC: 10s of millions

According to one source[1], steam alone has 95 million monthly active users. Not every pc gamer has steam running, so actual PC gamers are definitely in excess of 100 million. By comparison, ps plus and xbox live have 103 and 90 million monthly active users respectively. I'd say that PC and console gaming are within the same order of magnitude.

[1] https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/357726/Steam_brought_in_...

[2] https://www.playstation.com/en-us/corporate/press-releases/2...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/531063/xbox-live-mau-num...



Wow, that's surprising and not what I expected from game sales numbers. I guess the logical explanations are that

1. PC gaming is more diverse than console gaming and that the top games represent a much smaller portion of the overall market.

2. As the poster below said, there are a large number of net cafe gamers in Asian markets that are also PC gamers.




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