Monthly Steam hardware survey analysis

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JEMC said:

I'm not entirely sure that Blackwell's adoption is slowing down due to price because Ampere also had stupidly high prices due to the scalping that happened back then, yet your graph doesn't show it selling less.

So, price alone may not be the only cause. Maybe there's less supply of lower end cards, the ones that sell the most units. or maybe the problem is that, because of the price of RAM and storage, there is less people building new PCs and that also affects GPU sales.

As for the best VR headset, it may be the Quest, but it also has one big problem: Meta. If we could use it without having to create an account, maybe it would sell more.

Anyway, thanks for the stats, Conina.

I do believe it's also due to the fact that you don't need to upgrade your hardware as often as you used to in the past. Unless you're hitting the VRAM wall with Ampere, the cards are still very serviceable these days in terms of performance despite being 5 years old by now.

Also, as the prices were so high back then and even more now, I suppose quite a few want to maximise their usage of the cards they have now.