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The thing I have seen here on [H] is if Kyle and his team do not like something in the PC gaming industry, they will then do whatever they can to try to change it or influence the direction. A good example is around 4 years ago give or take Kyle went on this "canned benchmark" crusade basically calling 3dmark and every other benchmark to be useless and not real world. I actually jumped in and created a thread defending synthetic benchmarking which caused 25 pages of posts! So to me this is just another [H] crusade that will eventually fade away...
The thing that Kyle ignores and always has actually is the fact that for the most part his site caters to a small minority to begin with regardless of how many hits he gets on this site. I have always found it funny y Kyle puts no weight in steams hardware spec database because simply put, this is what is "real world" not some rich kid with 3 1080P monitors with high end sli...
/rant over
I would have to suggest that we did very much influence the industry when it comes to synthetic benchmarks, and if you talked to the people in charge at major tech companies, they would confirm that. We hardly faded on that one.
And yes, we cater to hardware enthusiasts and you hardly have to have three 1080P displays with high end SLI to be considered an enthusiast. But do we cater to the guy still playing CS on a 9700 at 1280 rez? No, not at all. We cater to people interested in new computer hardware technology mainly leveraged for gaming.
Honestly, you sound like you have a personal issue with all of this rather than a difference of opinion.