I’m guessing that most music platforms get the majority of their sales from outside the top 20.
Or are they talking about PC gaming versus console gaming? Actually, if you include mobile games, do the top 20 represent the majority of sales? Again, it feels like there’s a very significant long tail on mobile as well.
In case anybody else had trouble grasping what the article is about from that headline alone:
As Tianyi Gu, manager of market analysis at Newzoo, put it, “On PC, the space below the Top 20 is becoming more economically meaningful. That doesn’t make the market unconcentrated, but it does make games below the very top more commercially relevant than before.”
Soooo “Top 20” what? Developers? Distributors? Games? Game engines? Game platforms? People named Steve?
Seriously if they’re just going to regurgitate the headline from a trade report they should actually write more than just the headline
Piefed has made me much picker in which games I choose to play.
How so?
My way of finding games these days is to see what my friends are playing and ask them to show me.
I read this and the comments and still don’t know what the fuck is considered “the top 20”.
I do reinforce the metrics by playing most games that are 10+ years old now. Though I do got my eye on Timberborn, but I’d assume that’s not the “top 20” and they are talking AAA bullshit I haven’t been interested in years because they just seem to be regurgitate repeats or copies of the same formula that worked before a AAA company just reskined it and added a $90 price tag.
Timberborn is a lot of fun
Top grossing of the past week, including in-game purchases. On Steam, that’s CS2 at the top, followed by Slay the Spire and Dota 2. Presumably, they’re referring to the cross-service top 20, which is a little harder to quantify, presumably Fortnite is somewhere high on the list, but fewer people use the Epic Game Store, so idk where it will land.
Skyrim 67th release I’m sure
The top 20 appears to be play time, but it would be nice if it was ever really mentioned.
The article links to to the article its talking about, which creates reports (this one is for free). My assumption is, that the report clears it up and is the main article all data is based on. However to get a copy of the report I need either put my mail address or create an account, but not sure about that one. I’m also not interested enough to do all of this.
It remains an open question.
I think you should create an account. The report your missing is in the Top 20.
I don’t think I even have a game from the top 20 installed. They all keep shitting the bed.
What’s considered top 20
I’d assume AAA and top overall best sellers on Steam (with the exception of games like Fortnite and Minecraft).
I do have Minecraft installed, but only modded versions (purchased original copy in 2013).
I think in this case top 20 is just the top 20 best selling games, i.e. the newest ones. It does not imply AAA.
Pareto in shambles
