Microsoft: We Think The Future Is Without Console Generations

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Pemalite said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

That is a hilariously huge waste of money. 

What is your source for that 180 million number? Anybody with a potato of a computer, and three dollars can suddenly become an "active" steam member. How many of those supposid 180 million actually drop real money on games? 

What I do with my money is not only not your concern, it's also none of your business. - But I do more than just play games.

As for the rest, why don't you look at the Steam statistics for yourself? Everything is in black and white for you to form your own opinion. (Which you seem to have already made without looking at it anyway.)

Not to mention that Steam users are just a part, although quite large, of all PC gamers. When Windows XP reached 1B user base, gamers, including the most casuals, were already estimated to be  ~300M, of which ~100M core gamers. And this was before Steam boosted PC gaming again to golden age percentages, but on a total user base much larger. Just a large minority of PC gamers are power and graphics whores, the majority totally upgrades PCs roughly at console generation time intervals, if not longer, possibly with minor upgrades in between, so the sales of new PCs have dropped, but people, including gamers, keep their PCs longer, so PC user base, and PC gaming one too, still grow steadily, alhough slower than mobile ones.
Just to be clearer, on PC there are TWO kinds of hardcore gamers, those that look for technical excellence and those that like complex and deep classic PC games, and there can be overlapping of the two groups. "Complexity whores" that aren't power whores too will upgrade their PCs just when really needed, but they are nevertheless big buyers of games.