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Daisuke72 on 15 July 2014
m0ney said:
Bla bla a lot of people use their consoles primarily for media too or as dust collectors.


I know no one who does this. Especially with blu-rays being cheaper than ever and rokus, no one is buying a PS3 anymore for blu-ray netflix when they can get a sony media player for cheaper with more multimedia features. The PS4 damn sure isn't being sold as a media machine and the number of people who did buy it for mulktimedia features are in the VAST majority, meanwhile tons of people buy enthusiast pc parts because of other things besides gaming. Take in account PC hardware is MUCH more expensive than consoles anyways and this figure really isn't what some may think. 



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Captain_Tom on 15 July 2014
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
I guess its not so "Niche" after all LOL


And yet some people will continue to act like it is since they personally know nothing about it.



Captain_Tom on 15 July 2014
Daisuke72 said:
m0ney said:
Bla bla a lot of people use their consoles primarily for media too or as dust collectors.


I know no one who does this. Especially with blu-rays being cheaper than ever and rokus, no one is buying a PS3 anymore for blu-ray netflix when they can get a sony media player for cheaper with more multimedia features. The PS4 damn sure isn't being sold as a media machine and the number of people who did buy it for mulktimedia features are in the VAST majority, meanwhile tons of people buy enthusiast pc parts because of other things besides gaming. Take in account PC hardware is MUCH more expensive than consoles anyways and this figure really isn't what some may think. 


I know plenty of people who mainly use their consoles as media hubs, and no PC's are not always "MUCH" more exspensive.  Still stuck in 2005?



etking on 15 July 2014

If you buy one $1000 gaming PC and one $500 console, the PC gaming market is not twice as big. The methodology of this study is flawed.



Daisuke72 on 15 July 2014
Captain_Tom said:
Daisuke72 said:
m0ney said:
Bla bla a lot of people use their consoles primarily for media too or as dust collectors.


I know no one who does this. Especially with blu-rays being cheaper than ever and rokus, no one is buying a PS3 anymore for blu-ray netflix when they can get a sony media player for cheaper with more multimedia features. The PS4 damn sure isn't being sold as a media machine and the number of people who did buy it for mulktimedia features are in the VAST majority, meanwhile tons of people buy enthusiast pc parts because of other things besides gaming. Take in account PC hardware is MUCH more expensive than consoles anyways and this figure really isn't what some may think. 


I know plenty of people who mainly use their consoles as media hubs, and no PC's are not always "MUCH" more exspensive.  Still stuck in 2005?

Good computers are much more expensive than consoles. Sure budget PC's aren't, but any decent one is, especially manufacture professional PC's and Manufacture gaming PC's, such as iBuyPower, Alienware, CyberPC, among other companies. And yeah, know no one who does that "media player" consoles. 



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Daisuke72 on 15 July 2014
etking said:
If you buy one $1000 gaming PC and one $500 console, the PC gaming market is not twice as big. The methodology of this study is flawed.


The thing is, I could buy an I5 for non-gaming related reasons or a i7 and it'd be counted as  "gaming" hardware, as well as any pre-built desktop with a discrete gpu. 

 

I bought a GT 520 for the PC in my guests room. Will never play a PC game with that pos. 



adriane23 on 15 July 2014
JWeinCom said:
How exactly is this being defined? I bought a 350 buck computer and use it primarily for schoolwork... but I did play World of Goo on it. Does that count?

According to the study, yes it does count.



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VanceIX on 15 July 2014
adriane23 said:
JWeinCom said:
How exactly is this being defined? I bought a 350 buck computer and use it primarily for schoolwork... but I did play World of Goo on it. Does that count?

According to the study, yes it does count.

Once again, $17 billion (74%) come from enthusiast/performance sales alone, which is dedicated mostly towards gamers. 



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adriane23 on 15 July 2014
VanceIX said:
adriane23 said:
JWeinCom said:
How exactly is this being defined? I bought a 350 buck computer and use it primarily for schoolwork... but I did play World of Goo on it. Does that count?

According to the study, yes it does count.

Once again, $17 billion (74%) come from enthusiast/performance sales alone, which is dedicated mostly towards gamers. 

Your point?



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Puppyroach on 15 July 2014

Does my Surface 2 Count, where I play alot of mobile games, and also Halo: Spartan Assault and the likes?