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A New Report Claims The Epic Games Store Hurt PC Spending

A brand new report has been released by the ESA talking about the revenue in video games for 2019, including the results from the Epic Games Store. While the industry saw a lot of growth and expansion in certain areas, a few have picked up on the results of having a new PC platform in the mix. The report shows that PC earnings were only up 2%, but there was a decline in digital sales overall. According to a tweet from leading game sales expert Mat Piscatella, "The great PC distribution platform wars of 2019 did not do consumer spending on PC content any favors btw. Priorities of enhancing consumer experience & choice and minimizing confusion were all deemphasized in 2019, contributing to lower overall consumer spend on PC content."

While competition is usually good for business, the report suggests that consumers were not all too thrilled with having to choose between two platforms to buy their games on for PC. So ultimately, they chose neither. Throughout 2019, the Epic Games Store was a point of contention for many PC gamers as Epic had no issue signing games over to be exclusive to their platform. Which any search of social media for Metro Exodus, Ashen, Hades, and Dauntless will show you a contingency of players angered by the fact they weren't given a choice. We'll see if patterns change over the course of 2020 now that the store has settled into a groove. Or if players will be angered again at the next time they have to make a decision they don't want to.

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