He's the most tech savvy guy around when it comes to hardware related stuff. And I like when someone comments without coming off as overly biased.

Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, they say. ^_-

You're asking for my opinon rather than going with one of your own?. You said at the start that it's more interesting to look at the charts than to go just give your opinion, then go on to ask me for one.

Should we now be splitting the PC market into two parts with their own userbase count from now on?, what with the side that's supposedly to migrate back to *a* console versus the side that won't?.

Well, he did say "rather than give", implying one is just giving their opinion everywhere... but I suppose the situation has changed when that opinion is asked for, likely since it is to start a dialogue.

WTH implies that we should do something like that?

There's a hundred million people that do different things, so should we split the numbers a hundred million parts?  Don't answer that.

You just showed a split number from the total amount of suers that game on PC as enthusiast, I was asking if we should keep them split as such from now on in order to identiy which group within that platform (because we have the high end users versus the medium and low end) will move back to consoles.

We have casual and hardcore gamers, we always end up splitting those two apart, why should the low end from the high end be any different?. Especially with the talks we have now on how low end users could migrate back to consoles.

I am simply asking, should we?.

We grant the defendants each a $5 Steam card.

The company that tracks these stats does split them in 3 and offers analysis of each group.  For example they estimate that the Performance budget group will get a big boost next year as 4K capable GPUs enter their budget range.

Yes, we should split these groups for purpose of analysis, and when making broad claims about PC gamers.

Edit: Here's their breakdown

Enthusiast 16.4 Million (3%)
Performance 60 Million (11%)
Mainstream 481 Million (86%)

http://jonpeddie.com/publications/pc_gaming_hardware_market_report

Microsoft has always been lurking, paying close attention to what Sony does. Microsoft hates to be inferior to Sony in power which is why they rushed to fix their clock speed of the Xbox One, post PS4 reveal in February of 2014. They learned that you don't leave any stone unturned with Sony as they are a dominant company and any leaks could be used to your advantage. As we learned of the PS4 pros existence, Microsoft quickly revealed they would follow suit to compete. Does Microsoft need to make a 4k console? No. They tried to kill Blu Ray as a matter of fact, but they cannot stop a trend. They built in HDR and 4k Blu Ray players into  the "S" Model of the Xbox One to follow the trend, but also give the most accurate baseline Xbox One experience without increasing the hardware completely (as you can see, Sony did nothing with their slimline outside of make it more energy efficient). Microsoft basically sold the ideal home with their latest tweet that the PS4 pro's only real perk over the S model Xbox One is having 4.2 TFLOPs.

As you can see here they were ready for Sony's reveal and responded rather quickly. The S model has to true 4k experience and the saddest part of it all is that its Sony's baby. Its going to driven harder into everyones memory banks once the Pro is released.

Lastly, a console that is meant for a minority of gamers should not be gimped (even though it is understood that Sony wants to keep the community together in 30fps hell).This had me questioning whether the PS4 Pro is even capable of 60 fps at 1080p locked in the first place. Tomb Raider cannot even accomplish this.

There we go, we now even have 3 groups. Splitting them up makes the migration movement that much easier to spot who has moved and who hasn't. When the bigger number has shifts within the next 3 years, we'll be able to determine and conclude what happens to that market by then (because the 3% let alone 11 won't do zip).

LOL Lots of work is keeping me at bay. LOL Sooner or later i'll stop by for a couple hours and trigger something. ;) haha

My opinion was that the pro should've been exactly what is was meant to be, which is a console which catered to seasoned console gamers whom were on the verge of jumping ship to PC. A reason to stay, if you will. Sony did not create that...but they did create a powerful console for playing single player and watching HD Netflix programming. The Scorpio will most likely be that make great use of multiple settings and allow gamers to play in a more brilliant 4k, whilst allowing me to build up my 4k blu ray collection. I will probably get the pro, but the Xbox Scorpio will be my manditory multiplat console of choice. There is no way in hell multiplats will look or play better resolution and framerate-wise on the Pro unless the scorpio had some hidden bottleneck like the PS3 did (Cell processor and the CPU and GPU sharing power).