PC Hardware spec demographics

[rendo]

Entroper said:

rendo said:

Considering the topic doesn't mention anything about who the TARGET demographics are, it's unscientific. If the title was Steam Demographics for PC hardware, then I wouldn't care. It's a poll in a niche market, that doesn't represent the entire market. That's my point.

That would be why my first paragraph explains the survey methodology. This is, you know, a gaming forum, and I figured people would be interested in knowing some demographic info about gamers' PCs. Valve certainly is, and I think other game publishers should be as well.

If you look at the survey results, I think they represent the PC gaming market rather well. You can see that most people don't have multicore CPUs, the vast majority don't have SLI or Crossfire or a DX10 GPU. The most popular graphics card was a midrange card three years ago. Most people have less than a GB of RAM. I think it's interesting that PC gamers are not as upgraded as people seem to think they are. Valve seems to be one of the few developers that understands this and designs their games to run very well on average (meaning midrange from three years ago) hardware.

Anyway, what you said in your first post is all I intended to show.

But you also need to consider, Steam has a LOT of people who play some of the classics, HL, CS, TFC, etc etc.  Those games don't require the intense horsepower that is garnered from SLI/CrossFire, dual core, 2 gigs of ram, etc. 

All I intended to point out was the exact same thing you said, but in different words. :D