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Zod95 on 15 July 2014

I think the thread title should be "PC Dominates Gaming Hardware Expenses". Hardware sales leads us to think about the userbase, which in this case isn't, once sales are being measured in money rather than gamers. The biggest problem is that many buy a PC to work and sometimes play a little whereas consoles are dedicated gaming machines (no one buys them to work... aside from game developers). Therefore, the userbase of each can be better assessed by the software sales of multiplatform titles (and then maybe adjust them with different speculated tie ratios) than by money spent on hardware.



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

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Darwinianevolution on 15 July 2014

Hardware sales on PCs are very misleading. I mean, what if I buy the most powerful computer avalible but I only use it to make images and videos, and I don't play games on it?



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Xenobot on 15 July 2014
Vasto said:

"Nvidia, Intel, and AMD have enthusiast CPUs and GPUs that are so powerful, when combined with SSD's and fast memory, they absolutely trounce the computing power and gaming capabilities of the newest console generation,”

Where is PC with DDR5 memory? Where is it? Oh wait - you can't even buy DD4 PC RAM.

xD

and there is no way you can put SSD in console.

last, but not least: name one desktop 8 core processor.



VanceIX on 15 July 2014
adriane23 said:
VanceIX said:
adriane23 said:

26% is fairly significant, but that's not what the guy was asking, so why did you feel the need to point that out? He asked if his PC purchase counted. I told him yes.

Honestly, none of this really matters since most of the study is behind a pay wall. The most important question is how many people constitute each population (manstream, performance, enthusiast). I'm sure the full study has at least an estimate for each group, but unless someone is willing to pay $7,500-$25,000 for the report and share it, we'll never know.

And I said it counts very little, seeing as that the performance/enthusiast sales still beat out the console hardware figures. I was informing him that while it counts, it's still relatively small compared to the performance/enthusiast sales.

Whether you think it counts very little or astronomically is besides the point. The point was whether his PC purchase counted toward the study figures. It does. That's the only answer he was looking for. Why is this so difficult for you?

And if you were trying to convey that information to him, why didn't you quote his original post instead of my post that answered his question?

You seem to think that I'm attacking what you said, which I'm not. I was just pointing out that the mainstream sales were just a small part of the overall sales. I was building on what you said by adding more clarification.



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VanceIX on 15 July 2014
Darwinianevolution said:
Hardware sales on PCs are very misleading. I mean, what if I buy the most powerful computer avalible but I only use it to make images and videos, and I don't play games on it?

If a professional was really looking for a legitimate work PC for videos and such, they wouldn't get a gaming graphics card. There are better graphics cards made specifically for those purposes.



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HBninjaX on 15 July 2014
Devil_Survivor said:
Avro1958 said:
Devil_Survivor said:
Are they counting every PC sold on the market lol? If so they those aren't all gaming PCs.


If you actually saw the article you would know this is NOT the case.

Why can't people understand the point of this article? It's pretty straight forward, not rocket science poeple. 


To make PC elitists feel even more superior over console gamers lol?

I'm not sure if that is even possible.



0815user on 15 July 2014

And how much of that money goes into development of new games...?



VanceIX on 15 July 2014
HBninjaX said:
Devil_Survivor said:


To make PC elitists feel even more superior over console gamers lol?

I'm not sure if that is even possible.

You know, it's hilarious that some of you guys practically flame PC users all the time, and yet say we're the worst. C'mon now.



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Captain_Tom on 15 July 2014
Daisuke72 said:
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. 

A solid PC is ~$600.  That is not a massive amount more considering the PS3 was $600.  I won't even bring up the fact that PC games are astronomically cheaper...



Captain_Tom on 15 July 2014
Mohasus said:

Well you have to a buy a new one every year to run the lastest games and it costs $2000 no fuckin shit it makes more revenue.

I'm kidding.


Made me laugh.  That's what half the people on this website sound like...