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Chazore said:
ICStats said:

WTH implies that we should do something like that?

There's a hundred million people that do different things, so should we split the numbers a hundred million parts?  Don't answer that.

You just showed a split number from the total amount of suers that game on PC as enthusiast, I was asking if we should keep them split as such from now on in order to identiy which group within that platform (because we have the high end users versus the medium and low end) will move back to consoles.

We have casual and hardcore gamers, we always end up splitting those two apart, why should the low end from the high end be any different?. Especially with the talks we have now on how low end users could migrate back to consoles.

I am simply asking, should we?.

The company that tracks these stats does split them in 3 and offers analysis of each group.  For example they estimate that the Performance budget group will get a big boost next year as 4K capable GPUs enter their budget range.

Yes, we should split these groups for purpose of analysis, and when making broad claims about PC gamers.

Edit: Here's their breakdown

Enthusiast 16.4 Million (3%)
Performance 60 Million (11%)
Mainstream 481 Million (86%)

http://jonpeddie.com/publications/pc_gaming_hardware_market_report



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