Re:Things Apple Isn’t Doing
by 1123581321 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:48PM
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50-75% of Apple’s App Store revenue is gaming. That’s a lot. Apple expands the gaming market with their products, so they don’t need to be as big as Microsoft and Sony because they aren’t fighting “the console wars.” Besides, comparing Apple’s software revenue to Microsoft’s hardware plus software doesn’t make sense. Surely some fraction of iPads, Macs, Apple TVs and potential new hardware should count as gaming purchases.
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By that definition, Microsoft also makes a ton from gaming on the PC, as both a publisher and distributor of games.
One could argue that a large percentage of premium desktops and laptops choose windows for gaming compatibility and attribute a part of Windows revenues to gaming too. But that would be gaming numbers!
I think it fair to compare app store gaming revenues to consoles, as NO ONE buys an iPhone for gaming. They happen to (casual) game on the device they have on them in bed, or on the train, or everywhere.