PC Dominates Gaming Hardware Sales

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Baalzamon said:

Daisuke72 said:
Thing is, this takes in account: Professional Rigs, Enthusiast Rigs, and other applications that require a beefy system. Steam has like 70 million members and only 7 million have rigs better than the PS4, or on par. No way in hell that the 21 billion is going to "PC Gaming" and no, it isn't counting, "enthusiast hardware", since that's pretty much 770 level and above for gpus and other expensive parts, the PS4's specs aren't even "enthusiast" class, so that'd be like saying the 7 million people with better rigs than a PS4 spent on average $3,000 on their rigs, which is inaccurate. Using this very logic someone can simply come to the conclusion that PC Gaming hardware is much more expensive than Consoles, especially for enthusiasts, and then hundreds of thousands of "enthusiasts" parts are bought by huge studios and rendering farms, so yeah, in hindsight, not very impressive.

If you read the article, it talks about the breakdown. $10.1 billion is enthusiast, $6.9 billion performance, and $6.2 billion mainstream.

Additionally, you are insinuating that gaming consoles are always purchased for just gaming too, when they aren't. There were articles popping up several times about PS3's being joined to make supercomputers for different functions.

Not to mention that tons of consoles are purchased soley for entertainment purchases as well. The PS3 had tons of sales due to it being the best bluray player on the market, not to mention Netflix, Hulu, etc. Some non-gamers buy the Xbox One to be able to control their televisions with the kinect as well.