[SOLVED] Motherboards popularity

[a2nineu]

I want to ask you that why some motherboards are very popular and some are not despite having the same price range and same brand. I have B550 aorus elite v1 but I can see it has very few reviews on the internet despite seems to be a good motherboard. Is it related to that how much a company makes and throws them in the market or something else?

 

[drea.drechsler]

I think our perception of popularity is influenced heavily by the experiences others have had and relate, as in forums like this. So it depends entirely on the measure of popularity you're looking at.

The measure that matters to the manufactures is how much they sell. If they ain't on the shelves, they can't sell them.

But another odd influence is popular culture. People make themed builds now so the aesthetics of a motherboard have to fit with the aesthetics of whatever's popular so that it can be fit into a theme. To someone more interested in the hardware and it's capabilities it seems odd, but that's one way manufacturers addressed the impending death of the PC market several years ago.