| kowenicki said: There is another aspect to this. Take a look at the steam survey hardware survey... you will see how right you are and its not remotely controversial. I think a lot of PC gamers lie about their "rigs" |
Steam has over 65 million active users. The percentage on forums talking about how they get better performance than on consoles will only be a small fraction of the total userbase. By the same token, even if the percentage of people with a Titan or 780 or 7970, etc etc is small it can represent a significant number of people. If you looked at any gaming forum right now, you'd think a significant chunk if not a majority have already purchased a next generation console. However they only amount to a few percent of the total sales from last generation.
I'm also not sure how the steam hardware survey handles accounts using multiple PC's. I use Steam with multiple PC's, one of them significantly more powerful than the others. Is the survey including all of them? Judging by the mobile GPU's listed and the high percentage using 1366x768 (a very common laptop resolution) they are certainly including a lot of laptops in their survey. Now whether these are laptops used by people who also have desktops or if they are the primary machine is something we can't really know. However I suspect somebody who just uses a laptop to play Football Manager or Civ V isn't coming onto VGC to lie about their rig.
