I wonder what the metric for PC gaming is. When I was 10-16 I was definitely a Nintendo and PC gamer, but the “PC games” I was playing was flash games on Kongregate. It wasn’t until I was 15 or 16 that I made my Steam account which was on the family 2010 MacBook pro, relegated to titles supported by SteamPlay (Linux and OSX compatible titles).
For purposes of the article, I’d have been a statistic reporting under both, despite never knowing that PC gaming hardware was a thing back then.
Of course, it’s a different story if it’s built/bought a computer for gaming and also a console in addition.
I think one other thing to keep in mind is products are gathered over time. A PC gamer may buy a console a few years after they’ve had their PC, and vice versa for the console owner.
I wonder what the metric for PC gaming is. When I was 10-16 I was definitely a Nintendo and PC gamer, but the “PC games” I was playing was flash games on Kongregate. It wasn’t until I was 15 or 16 that I made my Steam account which was on the family 2010 MacBook pro, relegated to titles supported by SteamPlay (Linux and OSX compatible titles).
For purposes of the article, I’d have been a statistic reporting under both, despite never knowing that PC gaming hardware was a thing back then.
Of course, it’s a different story if it’s built/bought a computer for gaming and also a console in addition.
I think one other thing to keep in mind is products are gathered over time. A PC gamer may buy a console a few years after they’ve had their PC, and vice versa for the console owner.