In 2018, the global PC games market was valued at about $27.7 billion. PC remains the most important gaming platform with 60% of developers being most interested in developing a game for the platform and 66% of developers currently developing a game for PC. The uncoordinated nature of the PC game market make precisely assessing its size difficult. Microsoft Windows has become the dominant operating system for PC games. Personal computers are considered synonymous with IBM PC compatible systems while mobile devices – smartphones and tablets, such as those running on Android or iOS platforms – are also PCs in the general sense as opposed to console or arcade machine. They enjoying a resurgence in the mid-2000s through digital distribution on online service providers such as Steam and GOG.com. In the 1990s, PC games lost mass market traction to console games on the fifth generation such as the Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. Home computer games became popular following the video game crash of 1983, leading to the era of the "bedroom coder". Computer games became a form of video games. Its defining characteristics include: more diverse and user-determined gaming hardware and software and generally greater capacity in input, processing, video and audio output. ( January 2023)Ī personal computer game, also known as computer game or PC game, describes a game played on a personal computer (PC). Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
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