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Cerebralbore101 on 06 September 2016
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Alby_da_Wolf said:

 

Pemalite said:

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.

Yeah, I looked at the steam stats, and that's the gist of what I got out of it. There are a lot of questions that I have though. How does steam gather its information? Do they just take a snapshot of everyone that is online every friday? Do they survey the entire group or just part of it? If someone didn't log into steam on the day the survey was taken does that mean that they are not part of the survey? If the average CPU speed is 3 gigahertz, and the average user has three physical CPUs does that mean the average user has 9 gigahertz total, or just 3? Or to put it another way, do they include both CPUs in CPU speed, when doing the CPU speed section of the survey? 

It really would be interesting if VGchartz tracked the sales of PC games, as well as console games. Do they? Does steam track the sales figures?