The latest figures out of Germany provide evidence of a troubling decline in the popularity of PC gaming since 2019. A yearly chart showing the video gaming trends observed in the European industrial powerhouse suggests that PC gaming has slumped by 20% since 2019. Over the same period, we see from the Game.de report (machine translation, and using data from YouGov) that the popularity of mobile and tablet gaming has stayed pretty steady, with console gaming the only reliable market share gainer, year after year.
Game.de isn’t a PC-centric source; it is actually a site representing the association of the German games industry, and it leads its report by heralding the momentum behind games consoles. If these dedicated video gaming devices continue on their current path/trend, they will become the top platform for gaming in Germany in the not-too-distant future.
