Size of markets (Destiny)

by SonofMacPhisto , Thursday, May 08, 2014, 11:15 (3862 days ago) @ RC

What's the size of the console market, broken down between Sony and XBOX?

Quick googling:

80 million PS3's
80 million Xbox 360
7 million PS4s
5 million Xbox Ones

-PS4 and Xbox One likely to rise substantially over the next 4 months

What's the size of the PC market?

75 million active steam users

Difficult to numbers for the total market though.

Awesome. Thank you, RC.

So 172 million consoles out there, give or take, with likelyhood of growth. How many are offline only, or don't play multiplayer games for whatever reason. How many people would double, triple, or quadruple dip?

How many of those folks have PCs too? Quintuple dip? How many of those active Steam users have PCs that would run Destiny? How does Steam define "active?" Does this include non-PC computing devices? Does selling to this group of people fit in with Activision's and Bungie's goals as far as Destiny's business model is concerned? Say what you want about them, but the know how to make money.

I'm no business man, but seems like under just some basic scrutiny, not selling Destiny on PC and spending 500 million dollars doesn't seem like such a slam dunk disaster.

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500 MILLION DOLLARS! - Mr Danger, 2014-05-05, 23:47
- 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - Cody Miller, 2014-05-05, 23:59
  - Unfair Calculation - Hoovaloov, 2014-05-06, 00:53
    - Unfair Calculation - uberfoop, 2014-05-06, 01:24
    - Unfair Calculation - Xenos, 2014-05-06, 07:56
    - Merchandising! - Schedonnardus, 2014-05-06, 09:14
      - ^That - RC, 2014-05-06, 09:44
        
        ^That - Xenos, 2014-05-06, 10:24
      - Merchandising! - Mattchoo, 2014-05-06, 21:12
        
        Merchandising! - bluerunner, 2014-05-07, 06:53
        
        Merchandising! - JDQuackers, 2014-05-07, 19:36
        
        You Americans are all very weird and I love that - ZackDark, 2014-05-07, 21:46
        
        Freedom's a hell of a drug - MrPadraig08, 2014-05-07, 22:07
        
        You're an American too, ya South American - JDQuackers, 2014-05-08, 07:14
  - 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - Mr Danger, 2014-05-06, 01:18
  - 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - yakaman, 2014-05-06, 06:51
  - 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - Reconcilliation, 2014-05-08, 07:38
    - 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - MrPadraig08, 2014-05-08, 07:43
    - 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - Xenos, 2014-05-08, 07:53
    - 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - SonofMacPhisto, 2014-05-08, 08:01
      - I approve of this message. - Kermit, 2014-05-08, 10:12
      - Size of markets - RC, 2014-05-08, 10:43
        
        Size of markets - SonofMacPhisto, 2014-05-08, 11:15
        
        Size of markets - uberfoop, 2014-05-08, 11:29
        
        Good points! - SonofMacPhisto, 2014-05-08, 11:40
        
        Size of markets - Xenos, 2014-05-08, 11:44
        
        Size of markets - uberfoop, 2014-05-08, 11:57
        
        Size of markets - Xenos, 2014-05-08, 12:09
        
        Size of markets - SonofMacPhisto, 2014-05-08, 11:58
      - 500 MILLION DOLLARS! - Cody Miller, 2014-05-08, 10:51
        
        500 MILLION DOLLARS! - SonofMacPhisto, 2014-05-08, 11:16
- Hey, 500 employees... - Stephen Laughlin, 2014-05-06, 02:43
  - Hey, 500 employees... - General Battuta, 2014-05-06, 09:34
- Haven't I spent close to that just on t-shirts? - Kermit, 2014-05-06, 04:28
- Initial standardization saves money. - DEEP_NNN, 2014-05-06, 05:54
- And still no PC version. - Captain Spark, 2014-05-06, 19:11

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