Once again it's because all of the casuals from the Wii left to tablets/phones and never came back.
Out of curiosity, is there any reason whatsoever that people keep saying this? As in data or anything along those lines? You know stuff like
this which references
this?
The reason I say this is that mobile hasn't actually grown much in raw numbers while PC gaming has exploded in such. Steam for instance gained more than 10million new gamers in launch window of next gen alone - going from
65million in October 2013 to
more than 75million in mid January 2014. The Steam numbers may not mean much in a vacuum, but we're not in a vacuum. The research from superdata also indicates a changing landscape of gaming:
Primary platform usage:
2008:
Console 42%
Mobile 5%
2013:
Console 30%
Mobile 13%
As you can see from the earlier sources or even
ones such as this mobile is not really the huge thing that some portray it as on here. I feel in some ways these comments are more guided by elitism rather than objective analysis.
"Wii gamers weren't "real" gamers."
"Mobile games aren't for "real" gamers."
Console gaming is shrinking.
Mobile gaming is growing.
QED BITCH!
Lastly we can also see from figures like
the Steam hardware survey that even the average machine connected to Steam isn't exactly what you'd call an enthusiast gamer box. It's a dual core 2.3-2.69ghz machine with integrated graphics (hello laptops), 8GB RAM and less than 500GB of total HDD space.
