I honestly believe gaming PCs are becoming niche market

[outlawauron]

Lusche said:

outlawauron said:

Tamron said:

Also,  if your 2010 built rig cant handle current games unless you crank the settings to low for it to run,  i put it to you that your rig wasnt high end when you built it anyway. 

Let me guess,  mid range amd cpu,  mid range gpu? 

Nah. It's i7 running 3.2GHz and I have 5800 series ATI. CPU was over $300 and GPU was over $200 when I purchased it from Newegg.

strange, I had an i7 2.8ghz@3.8ghz and ati 5770 with asrock mb and 4gb ram for around 500bucks also in the beginning of 2010.
it could play most/all current gen games @1080p with medium/high settings.
maybe some hw/driver issues ?

giftet it to my mother because her pc was dead and got a new one for 550bucks ?beginning last year? which could play watchdogs@1080p ultra

 

but I also think pc gaming is not in it greatiest shape right now.
they also starting to charge console game prices for pc games and the ports are almost as bad as the wiiu ports were.
but calling mmorpg, mobas, rts, simulation niche is maybe a bit too much.

I'd love to know what you're playing, because even stuff like DOTA 2 doesn't run well at the highest settings.