{"id":89913,"date":"2016-04-26T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=89913"},"modified":"2016-04-26T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:05:18","slug":"there-are-1-8-billion-gamers-in-the-world-and-pc-gaming-dominates-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/89913-there-are-1-8-billion-gamers-in-the-world-and-pc-gaming-dominates-the-market","title":{"rendered":"There are 1.8 billion gamers in the world, and PC gaming dominates the market"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PC versus console argument has raged across the internet for as long as the respective devices have been in existence.<\/p>\n

Every gamer has a different opinion about which console is better, or the advantages and disadvantages of gaming on a PC.<\/p>\n

Although the competition is relatively close, PC gamers clearly come out ahead of console gamers in terms of market percentage, according to an ESA study<\/a><\/strong> on video game consumers.<\/p>\n

The amount of gamers in the world has reached 1.8 billion, with 1.2 billion gamers playing on PC. <\/strong><\/p>\n

62% of gamers use a PC while 56% use a console.
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These numbers have recently been heavily referenced<\/a><\/strong> by Intel, who have begun developing products<\/a><\/strong> aimed at gamers.<\/p>\n

Apart from presenting statistics about the console-PC argument, the study focuses on the entirety of the gaming industry, measuring gaming demographics, growth and sales.<\/p>\n

Check out some more statistics from the study <\/a>below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Age<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"gaming<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Sales<\/a><\/h3>\n
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PC gamers make up the largest percentage of the video game market, with console and mobile gamers trailing behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":89927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[18147,155,11100,2664,807,1219,1886,17536],"class_list":["post-89913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-argument","tag-console","tag-esa","tag-gaming","tag-pc-gaming","tag-stats","tag-study","tag-versus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}