Ok, Mr. Onion

What makes you think Dual-Shock 4 has anything to do with it? It would have been supported on PC regardless if Sony likes it or not, like every other console controller to have ever existed since the dawn of computing.

PSNow isn't attractive to PC gamers. *shudders*

This.
Pretty sure Microsoft gave out refunds for some Windows Store Games due to the sales bombing and the game not having a Multiplayer population worth mentioning.

Er. You do realise you don't have to buy a PC that is thousands of dollars?
I know this is a crazy thing to comprehend... But the PC has this thing called choice, where you choose what you want, I know, crazy concept isn't it? But it's actually true.

You could always go Gog.com. Their games are DRM free, so you can whack a game on a MicroSD card... And essentially you have your own carts. ;)

Steam has a stupidly massive user base... Larger than the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Wii U combined at the moment. Heck throw the 3DS into that as well.

The statistics say otherwise.

Mobile > PC > Consoles.

Actually. GPU shipments for 2016 were higher than it has been for the last few years, Pascal and Polaris were the first decent upgrades that entice people.


The interesting thing about GPU shipments is nVidia and AMD don't really sell super high volumes of low-end discreet cards anymore thanks to CPU integrated graphics being "good enough".

The take away of that though is, mid-range GPU's with higher profit margins have actually increased in sales.

Do you have all the names and registrations of all those that buy each new card, as well as "new" users?.

Yes, but I'm not going to show you how I got it, so don't ask again.

PC gaming never died and never will. Keyboard and Mouse is my favorite "controller" for FPS/TPS, RTS and MMO.

There are a lot of reports out there showing that PC software revenue is also growing.

Oh I dont doubt it. But the report states the highest revenuue in hardware ever, lets not forget that 2016 also saw the launch of polaris and pascal wich where huge jumps being waited for for a while. That it would have a huge spike in hardware means a lot of thouse where upgraders and not just new buyers.

I built my PC because everything just wasn't as good on console. Games ran at lower framerates, the streaming, and recording features built into the PS4 were worse, and I had no ability to stream a wide range of consoles.

Today, I only buy exclusives, and bad ports (ports that run better on consoles) for PS4. And, I get to have Killer Instict without owning an xbox, so that was another major plus. It was literally the only game on Xbox one that I absolutely needed to have.

I also got the gears of war collection. But, that was more-so because it was available. Not because I wanted it.

I want to sell the PC I have now to a friend, and build another one, that's far stronger than what I need, though. R9 390X and 4790k are no where close to cutting it for me.

I'm totally sure you have thousands of registrations and "new customer" data at your disposal. I take it we're falling back on the gamble from last time as well?.

I am one of those that only own console for exclusives, play everything else on PC.