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Chazore on 23 January 2017
deskpro2k3 said:

I was aware, but it wasn't a very good one.



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pokoko on 23 January 2017
GProgrammer said:
SvennoJ said:

They do pull in billions, but how much is profit? A lot no doubt.

No thats incorrect as someone whos worked many years developing games on both consoles and PC, consoles is another ball game, Sure together PC games they make quite a bit of revenue but the Billion dollar elephant in the room though is theres far more competition thus that revenue gets divided up amongst far more games, eg look at the link you supplied, the #1 game on steam only brought in $78 million dollars for the whole year, for console games #1 you're often talking in greater than a billion dollars revenue, theres no comparison. Read the link you supplied 5,245 new games launched on steam last year, which are competeing with the thousands of games already available on the steam store. With consoles you're only talking about hundreds of new titles a year not thousands. Read gamasutra.com etc most PC games don't make a profit at all, in fact more than half actually lose money

That's not incorrect at all.  Steam makes profit off every game sold, it doesn't matter to them which game is pulling in money.



deskpro2k3 on 23 January 2017
Chazore said:

I was aware, but it wasn't a very good one.

I know, it was a great one.



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TK-Karma on 23 January 2017
pokoko said:
GProgrammer said:

No thats incorrect as someone whos worked many years developing games on both consoles and PC, consoles is another ball game, Sure together PC games they make quite a bit of revenue but the Billion dollar elephant in the room though is theres far more competition thus that revenue gets divided up amongst far more games, eg look at the link you supplied, the #1 game on steam only brought in $78 million dollars for the whole year, for console games #1 you're often talking in greater than a billion dollars revenue, theres no comparison. Read the link you supplied 5,245 new games launched on steam last year, which are competeing with the thousands of games already available on the steam store. With consoles you're only talking about hundreds of new titles a year not thousands. Read gamasutra.com etc most PC games don't make a profit at all, in fact more than half actually lose money

That's not incorrect at all.  Steam makes profit off every game sold, it doesn't matter to them which game is pulling in money.

That is ... Very interesting. I didn't know that the supply chain was set up by Steam in that way.



Ruler on 23 January 2017

This could just mean anything. To me this is just showing that PC gamers have to spend more for their Hardware than they used to. I remember the days when you could get a GTX 280 for 330€ in less than a year after its release, the most powerful single GPU graphicscard for its time.

proof
https://www.computerbase.de/2008-12/test-grafikkarten-2008/23/

Today you have to pay 600€ just for the GTX 1080 alone, and we all know that Nvidia just like Intel always has is now locking away their best hardware with the Titan series for wealthy people. So happy paying



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Pemalite on 23 January 2017
Ruler said:

I remember the days when you could get a GTX 280 for 330€ in less than a year after its release, the most powerful single GPU graphicscard for its time.

The GeForce GTX 285 was faster. Used less power.
The Radeon 4890 was faster.

Many cases where the Radeon 4870 and Geforce 275 beat out the Geforce GTX 280.

But don't take my word for it (Anandtech is one of the most reliable sources for tech information on the internet): http://www.anandtech.com/show/2745/16

As for pricing. You aren't wrong, pricing has gotten out of control in recent years... I remember picking up the venerable Radeon 6950 (Or three) and unlocking them into full-blown Radeon 6970's. For just a few hundred Australian smacko's.

Today I would be looking at almost $800 for the equivalent tiered GPU.

CPU's aren't any better either. I got my 3930K for about $400-$500 AUD.
It's replacement is $900- $950 AUD... Which my 3930K outperforms whilst overclocked.



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Chazore on 23 January 2017
deskpro2k3 said:

I know, it was a great one.



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.