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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BovineofWar" data-source="post: 9466298" data-attributes="member: 7038528">There's less of a console exclusivity thing going on with Nintendo these days, so you have a lot of Sony or Microsoft players buying Nintendo consoles as well. You can add ~100 million Wii sales or >150 million Switch to the Microsoft + Sony numbers and overestimate the market size or add less and underestimate it. Not trying to stoke the core vs casual gamer conversation, just interpreting things the way that Phil Spencer laid out the argument. I don't really trust any of these numbers at all to be honest, just the general tendencies. They're just accurate enough to justify:A) video games are bigger than TTRPGs by market. B) video games have slow growth right now. C) TTRPGs are still having good growth right now. Likewise, based on all the anecdotal evidence, I don't see any reason to disbelieve WotC's claims on this press release. I'm sure they have other unrealistic projections on market growth, digital capture, and increasing the profitability per customer, but on the face of it the total number D&D fans and sales trends of the 2024 PHB seem reasonable assertions.</blockquote>