Is PC ONLY a viable business option?

[Stuart]

Your right Ryan, but playing Farmville or even solitaire on your PC is still playing a computer game. My girlfriend hates computer games, or thinks she does, but loves playing solitaire on her mobile, thats a game that cost me £2.99 to download, I bought need for speed and it cost the same price. A game is a game and it doesn't matter if its the latest version of Halo or a simple Chess game, they all make money and don't all require hi spec PC's to run them. Also we have to get away from this concept that the only gamers are either hardcore or causal types. There is a whole spectrum of gamers out there. Occasional gamers who only play for a few hours a week actually make up 24% of the total market and play almost exclusively only board games such as chess/backgammon and Puzzel games such as Bejeweled and (maybe) Rotasphere. That's 24% of a market currently worth over $100 billion worldwide only play games that could run on a PCs system about 6 or 7 years old or maybe more. I actually know very few people who own PCs and don't play games of some kind. Even my mums neighbors who are in their 60's play bejeweled on their old desktop and its ancient. So no very few PCs can play 360 games but the figs for 2010 show that console game sales have dropped 6% and the huge rise overall in computer games figures have come from down-loadable content to mobiles and PCs. Also the rise of internet connections in places such as China is allowing for more online gaming through cheap affordable PCs and this is set to grow astronomically in the next few years and is something we really want to be tapping into.