games console

also referred to as: games consoles

4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 19, 2020 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about games console, oldest first

Oct 19, 2020 bearish

Opinion

The bear case for VR is becoming a 150-million-user console subset

“The bear case for VR has been if you had seen a modern games console, 30 years ago, you would have said, oh my God, this is amazing. It's part of the future. Turns out that's one hundred and fifty million people. Which is a big business. It's great, but it's n…”

Benedict Evans Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 8:56 What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles

Oct 18, 2021 neutral

Assertion Contradicted

Evans: More people use Snapchat than own a gaming console

“More people use Snapchat than have a games console. And so, I'm so true, you know, Snapchat has like, I think, four, four, Snapchat has four hundred million DAUs, and there's maybe a hundred and fifty million people with a games console.”

Benedict Evans Oct 18, 2021 ▶ 4:22 Metaverse - beyond the buzzword

Oct 31, 2022 neutral

Assertion Supported

Evans: Gaming Console Install Base Is Only 175M to 200M Units

“You know, the install base of a games console is sort of 20 or 30 minutes, is, is, is like a hundred and seventy-five million units, maybe two hundred million units, if you include Nintendo.”

Benedict Evans Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 7:19 How many metaverses?

Apr 16, 2023 neutral

Assertion Partly supported

Evans: Gaming consoles capped at around 200 million active devices globally

“There's only, as it might be, two hundred million games consoles on earth, which is not nothing, but it's not smartphones. It never became a universal experience.”

Benedict Evans Apr 16, 2023 ▶ 9:38 Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS

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