lucidium said:
Identifying the number of low end laptops by the frequency of their onboard GPUS then removing the low end laptops from the calculation results in a more accurate picture of PC averages. As i have been trying to get through to him, steam stats are heavily skewed by the number of people that install steam on their laptops regardless of if their laptop is powerful enough, many do so for little games or old games, and many do so just to buy games during sales while away from home, or to chat to friends. |
Removing all low end laptops? Thats a bit harsh.
The way i see it most PC gamers are playing games like Dota, Dota 2, LoL and other popular MMO's. The markets of these games dwarf the rest of the PC market given the number of active players and revenue they bring in...look at the growth of steam since Dota 2..
It doesnt take a fancy PC to play these games and a lot of gamers actually play these games on laptops. These games specifically cater for it precisely because a lot of the gamers will play at lower settings. Another thing is that a lot of PC gamers are not actually interested in games outside of the ones mentioned above...which means they dont really have an incentive to go and get a great gaming PC.
Anyways i think your view on what makes up an average gaming PC or mainstream PC is a bit skewed. You mentioned in your post that the average gamer has a quad core cpu and many have hyperthreading as well...that implies that the average gamer has an i7 since most i5's dont have hyperthreading. Thats a pretty crazy assumption...I would say the average PC gamer has a dual core cpu with a low/mid end gpu (desktop) or a laptop that can run the games he/she wants to play.
And as for mainstream PC's i would say that mainstream PC's are either shitty desktops bought by clueless people or are laptops.
I guess steam stats back up my claims but thats not really my point. I think you will be surprised the amount of gamers who dont have decent gaming PC's like the one you see in my sig.
Anyways im not really arguing against you...i dont agree with most of the stuff OP said but i think your view on what is the average gamer PC or mainstream PC is a bit off.
