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Someone remind me... how many average consumers even game on the PC anymore?
Well, just from the HardOCP frontpage yesterday...
Valve announces a new version of Steam which is immediately available in public beta. In the last 12 months, Steam has grown 200%. There are now 25 million users, 1000+ games, 12 billion player minutes per month, and 75 billion Steam client minutes per month. To accommodate this growth, a new Steam client has been created.
Then we have games NOT made or sold by Valve through Steam.
Then we have the hardware survey that Steam does about every month. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ - We can use this to generally estimate what the midrange is.
65% use nVidia.
Most common nVidia cards in use? The GeForce 8800... GeForce 9800... GTX 260... GeForce 9600... GeForce 8600... 9500... 8500... GTS 150... In that order.
Model numbers spanning between 3 generations that effectively use the same damned core. (G92, G94 and G96 except for the 260 using G100 and the 8500/8600 using G86.) IIRC, the G90's are still G80's retweaked or am I off there?
Between those models that use the G90 series... they account for 30%+ of the 65% nVidia share.
Of the nVidia models...
The 8800, 8600 are decreasing in share. The 9600 and 9800 are increasing. The 150 has increased.
I wonder how many people ended up upgrading to effectively the (if not the exact) same product without realising it.
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