Cool, I only game on a controller with my PC plugged into a TV. It's interesting that if you would remove the esports multiplayer titles and PC exclusive genre's like strategy the % of controller gamers shoots up quite high in most single player games.

Controller support is already superb on Steam with 468/676 games in my collection either having full support or partial support which from every game I've played so far that says partial has been full support anyway or with something like a launcher to click play or having to click start on the title screen with a mouse (which I do on a controller anyway). For the remaining games that don't support it there there is usually good user made presets you can enable from Steam big screen mode.

I was actually surprised by some of the numbers as well. For example, I find it hard to understand why some would play an FPS with a controller on PC given how much better the k-board & mouse combo is, but there's an almost 10% of users that prefer to use one. I guess they're like you and play on a TV using the Big Picture mode.

And, on the other side, Third person action games usually play much, much better with a controller, specially if some form of driving is included, so learning that only half the players use one for those games is quite surprising.

I don't play in big picture mode just standard desktop with an Xbox controller as my mouse to navigate. Actually I started moving away from favouring Mouse+keyboard these past 5 years with probably 70-80% of my gaming been done on the controller then last year decided to replace the desk with a TV and now do everything via a Xbox controller.

I just generally find using a controller more fun and relaxing and would be one of those who choose to play a FPS on a controller whilst acknowledging m+k is probably the superior option for most of them not to mention it allows me to game more instead of my wrist and hands telling me to stop after a short period so age is probably a factor as well since I can't smash nerds 24/7 with my hands hovering on wasd like I used to back in 2000 on Quake 3.

The problem this year (well, last year) is that the new Radeons came late and due to the enormous demand on all their products (CPUs, GPUs and Consoles), can't nearly fulfill all of them. Consoles go first due to not delivering here would be a contract breach, and due to the limited capacities at TSMC, there's not much volume left for the CPUs and the GPUs.

The CPUs had the advantage that they came a bit earlier and that they are also needed in the very lucrative server market, meaning GPUs really just get the leftovers in terms of production capacities right now, and as such can't produce nearly enough to cover demand, even though it's quite lower than for NVidias GPUs. In fact, NVidia going for Samsung 8nm instead of TSMC could mean they dodged quite a bullet here in terms of production capacity, as while Samsung's capacity is also stretched, it still allowed for more than would have been possible with TSMC now.

using your old diablo save? uhoh

Intel Core i7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16535/intel-core-i7-11700k-review-blasting-off-with-rocket-lake

TLDR...

Slower than 5800X while needing more power!!!

Intel goofed hard!

So I don't need to sell my 5900x?

Not until Alder lake in a few months

In my defense; I play good games as well. :P Currently finishing my second playthrough of Pathfinder Kingmaker (which actually made me go out and buy Pathfinder Pen & Paper system!).

My spring PC plans seem to have taken a hit though, with GPU's being rare as unicorns, no properly tempting display being released any time soon, and now RAM seems to be hurtling towards the sky in regards to price. I recently read that memory sticks were increasing in price by around 10% per day at online retailers here, this was at the end of February. Damn it!

We play a bit at work, mostly one-on-one. I mostly play Career Mode at home, that's where the majority of my time gets spent. I don't bother with Ultimate Team, gaming scam of the century, and fuel for many of EA's worst practices.

The AI in Career Mode gets obvious boosts and my team gets obvious nerfs - this is most evident when playing weaker sides. I've also played some PES 2020 and 2021, it's like night and day, I've yet to experience anything like this in those titles.