Then we could also leave the PC reviews to other sites that know what they are doing as well.
Given that PCG can also be late with their own reviews, even falling behind other more smaller sites, it leaves something to be desired.
The benchmark market is slightly being addressed, just not in a way that's entirely up front and center. We have sites like Guru and Techspot, but outside of those two, not much else gains a lot of traction. This is why I tend to put more focus on recorded benchmarks from various people around youtube, because they test all sorts of configurations, but also show you visual results, and sometimes bar charts.
Linus used to do some benches a few years back, but these days he's more about the latest tech, hardware speeds and the like, rather than having a bigger focus on gaming.
yes we need a bigger outlet, but who exactly is that going to be and how long do we have to wait for said outlet to appear?. It feels like a shrug moment, where we say we need something, but no one is clearly going to fill that gap anytime soon, which is why I suggested PCG, because they are an existing outlet that tries to solidify themselves as one of the main PC gaming news sites around the globe (even though they rarely cover GBP and other currency prices out there).
Digital Foundry only has one guy managing their PC content, and even then it's so very slim in terms of content and it takes days to make up any content, while their console side of tech news is covered every few days and in greater number.
PCG is an entry point to casual PC gaming. They provide many, many casual based articles ranging from "The best of X" to "what you need to download Y of". They are an amazing site, if all you want is list based articles, to then argue over, but for me it's just information gathered from already existing outlets and sources, only more casualised.
Not every site needs to appeal to the casual side either, and the hardcore sites are so very slim in pickings compared to the casual side, just like how the casual gaming market dwarfs the hardcore one. You do not need to be the "me too" in the casual market.
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