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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What counts as an "older game?" Surely not... thinks about the games I played last week ...Tie Fighter or Dune 2?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Actual answer:

The data shows that from January 2024 to December 2024, 67% of player hours on PC were spent on a game that was six or more years old. A further 25% of player hours were spent on games that were two to five years old, and the remaining 8% of time was spent on games that are less than two years old.

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The results are extrapolated from a yearly in-depth survey of 73,000 players, alongside data from over 10,000 games

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

More than 5 years old includes all the major live service titles at this point, back in the day people would be hopping to whatever new COD/Battlefield just came out, which would lock that metric to 2-3 years max. Since Moore's law is long dead at this point the technology just doesn't improve much year over year, and it's hard to sell a new minor iteration on a game without flashy visual upgrades, the old model just doesn't really make sense anymore.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago

Yes, that is the main point the article makes