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> There are hundreds of millions of gamers on consoles and PCs, and many of them buy hardware accessories to improve their game play. However, the vast majority

by baldfat 10y ago

> There are hundreds of millions of gamers on consoles and PCs, and many of them buy hardware accessories to improve their game play. However, the vast majority of the top selling peripherals are $30-50. They obviously don't focus on PC players. Graphics cards should count as a peripheral and mice and keyboards are above the $50 price point for most PC gamers.

golergka 10y ago
I think that you have a stereotypical hardcore gamer in mind, not the silent majority of people who have 8 games in their Steam library which they play occasionally on their laptops. They may not be that vivid as a stereotype, they don't post on forums, they don't read gaming press - but they are PC gamers, and, most likely, the majority.
- baldfat 10y ago
  > I think that you have a stereotypical hardcore gamer in mind, not the silent majority of people who have 8 games in their Steam library which they play occasionally on their laptops I think you are making some assumptions. People have been downplaying PC gamers as a minority but we can look at Steam hardware surveys. Also the numbers don't lie when you look at games like league of Legends. League's player count and also the eSport events and viewer counts shows how big this PC player base is. It has been growing year after year. People have just make assumptions that mom's playing casual games online counts as the majority. BUT the vast majority of casuals moved to mobile years ago. This analysis is just really missing the current picture. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ 60% of Steam Users use NVIDIA cards and dedicated chips Look at the cards and you will see that the VAST Majority of Steam users have video cards or dedicated video for their laptops. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ VR gaming is kind of like motion controls. Cool idea that is fun for a bit but can be exhausting for long term use. Best thing for VR right now is consuming media or for short special experiences.
  - cma 10y ago
    Dedicated video on laptops basically doesn't work for VR unless it is the NVidia 1000 series, or a select few other models, because of power saving features that routed even dedicated video through the igpu and added latency.

by baldfat 10y ago

golergka 10y ago

I think that you have a stereotypical hardcore gamer in mind, not the silent majority of people who have 8 games in their Steam library which they play occasionally on their laptops. They may not be that vivid as a stereotype, they don't post on forums, they don't read gaming press - but they are PC gamers, and, most likely, the majority.

baldfat 10y ago
> I think that you have a stereotypical hardcore gamer in mind, not the silent majority of people who have 8 games in their Steam library which they play occasionally on their laptops I think you are making some assumptions. People have been downplaying PC gamers as a minority but we can look at Steam hardware surveys. Also the numbers don't lie when you look at games like league of Legends. League's player count and also the eSport events and viewer counts shows how big this PC player base is. It has been growing year after year. People have just make assumptions that mom's playing casual games online counts as the majority. BUT the vast majority of casuals moved to mobile years ago. This analysis is just really missing the current picture. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ 60% of Steam Users use NVIDIA cards and dedicated chips Look at the cards and you will see that the VAST Majority of Steam users have video cards or dedicated video for their laptops. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ VR gaming is kind of like motion controls. Cool idea that is fun for a bit but can be exhausting for long term use. Best thing for VR right now is consuming media or for short special experiences.
- cma 10y ago
  Dedicated video on laptops basically doesn't work for VR unless it is the NVidia 1000 series, or a select few other models, because of power saving features that routed even dedicated video through the igpu and added latency.