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Bofferbrauer on 03 January 2016
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haxxiy said:
zero129 said:
 

Wow to the OP. For a person that doesnt care much about PC gaming your sure doing alot lately to paint it in a bad light. Even going as far as to seek out a obscure foreign article that has nothing to do with the gaming side of the PC industry, But yet try to use it to make the gaming side look like its doing bad. Some key points that you missed in your article.
1. Its talking about manufactures such as Dell etc and how its harder for smaller ones to compete with the likes of Dell and the bigger companys, so they suspect many of them smaller ones to shut down.
Fact is most gamers build their own gaming PC's and dont buy from Dell so nothing changes here.
2. The PC Gaming industry has been growing YoY and is bigger now then its ever been. So even if the overall PC market shrunk the gaming side can still grow much larger YoY since the two markets are not the same.
3. Even if Yearly sales of the PC shrunk to 220 Million. Do you realize that even if 20% of them sales where gamers that would still be more then what the PS4 would be selling in a year??

Anyway ill leave this here for you since it fits perfect

Gaming PCs apparently are 2.5% of total - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12053-015-9371-1

A lot of people game on PCs, yeah, but play Minecraft or Counter Strike on Intel HD Graphics or GeForce 210s from standard office or commercial computers. Even on Steam, which reunites a dedicated market of PC gamers, the "low end" prevails. Not quite exactly the hardcore market that is often compared to consoles!

I play on PC BTW.

2.5% isn't as bad as one can think, as this includes every PC in offices and the like. And considering the 2.5% consume about 20% of the total energy need of computers according to the article, it's pretty clear they don't mean computers with onboard or entry level graphics.

Too bad Steam hardware survey doesn't seem to be available right now, but yeah, entry-level cards and iGPs make a ~15% chunk of the whole Steam hardware stats as far as I can remember. Most of them probably on Ultrabooks and used for CS or other older/less demanding games. Curiously, Minecraft looks rather dead on Steam, it's not even charting unless I overlooked it: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/?