You Guys Are Still Spending a Lot on Gaming PCs

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People so easily forget about demographics. Specifically: age.

Enthusiast gamers have started to reach the age where they can afford to buy things for themselves rather than begging their parents, or working 3 minimum wage jobs.
When I was 16, I really wanted that 3dfx voodoo card, but my parents cetainly weren't going to buy it for me. Now I'm 31, and I can afford to buy that high end video card, and who's going to stop me?
 
I read the comment in bold and immediately passed over the rest. Anything over the bare minimum is classed as enthusiast hardware. Its like saying 'The majority of people who can read, can spell'... Du'h. I hate this type of journalism.
 
So what you're saying is... The people who are in to PC gaming are the ones spending money on computers? Wow, that's quite the observation. Blows my mind.
 
[citation][nom]cloakster[/nom]I do agree that PC gaming is for the true enthusiast. but console gaming will never die because of how cost effective it is for the consumer, assuming that they buy all their games legitly.[/citation]
How could paying higher price for games be cost effective?
 
If you really think about it, one of the positive aspects of owning a PC is that its practically backward compatible with all the PC games that have been out for the last 15 years. If not you just put a little coding into the files and most of the time the games work. I do believe way too many developers/publishers have jumped ship to consoles because of the easy money to be made. Even if piracy is on both platforms, piracy is a big problem on the PC and developers/publishers are not tackling this problem lightly, I'm not boycotting any PC game, but I'm definitely not spending 50 bucks for a game i have to be constantly connected to the internet. Imagine if it were the same for the PS3 and 360, gamers would be outraged. I doubt PC gaming will die, but seeing company's like crytek go to console gaming, its inevitable. Our powerful machines will have cutting edge technology, but it won't be used for games, it will be used for software and programs. And all the games we will be getting are ports from consoles. I really am crossing my fingers that Starcraft 2 doesn't get ported to consoles. But seeing that Activision is running a muck at blizzard now, it could happen. My primary use for the PC is gaming, my future PC build which is in about a year or two will rely heavily on whether or not new greater PC titles will come out for it. I really, really want Exclusive titles for the PC. I'm sick of seeing multi platform games come out now. Its just a sick twisted money train. But thats what the industry has turned into. Only time will tell if PC gaming dies or now. For now, its still alive and well =D.
 
i normaly find that i try to ballance my cost on all the parts of my computer and develope a ballanced computer a AMD quad core and a set of ATI cards and a sata 6gb is perfect and cost effective. pop in a decent water cooling system and your set...
 
That's certainly true, looking at myself, I'd certainly say that enthu gamers are half the market..... although Gaming is not something that I may do 24hrs a day. But yet, the main aim even behind me making servers is, that I should be able to game on it without disrupting the other activities......
I think it's some sort of a belief that i personally have, that, if my machine can game without giving way, then t can handle any process without giving way..... and at the best of speeds, so I guess, it's more of a physical benchmark more than anything else for me....
 
[citation][nom]hixbot[/nom]People so easily forget about demographics. Specifically: age.Enthusiast gamers have started to reach the age where they can afford to buy things for themselves rather than begging their parents, or working 3 minimum wage jobs.When I was 16, I really wanted that 3dfx voodoo card, but my parents cetainly weren't going to buy it for me. Now I'm 31, and I can afford to buy that high end video card, and who's going to stop me?[/citation]

Oh how true that is :)
I started playing CS at 15 with a no name 32meg video card, 128 mb ram with a p3 @ 1 ghz on windows millennium (yes i know...) As better games were released I discovered the wonders of upgrading pc's, and for that matter operating systems...but obviously my parents weren't going to upgrade their pc for my games.
Years later I got a full time job, built my first rig, got myself 2 gigs of ram, an asus 6800gt and an athlon xp 3500+ in 04, and slaped that into my Thermaltake Xaser V Damier V6000A and have been periodically upgrading parts in my pc every 8 months or so :)
 
Yep, probably spent less playing PC titles on my two year old MacPro than many PC gamers here and I still get fabulously high fps with nvidia 285GTX. I play a wide range of games in bootcamp and switch to OS X for everything else. Best of both. When Windows System Registry starts its indomitable Pisa tricks, Winclone ( http://twocanoes.com/winclone/ ) allows me to write a compressed clean install image of Windows Ultimate back onto a second internal HDD in minutes. No fussing with complete Windows re-installs.
 
Hell yeah we are and we will keep up on spending!
I spend around U$S500/year just in hardware. Dying my ass..
 
The upgrade bug has bitten, but I just can't justify it when I'm playing the same [older] games and my hardware isn't struggling. I thought a 1080p monitor would call for the retirement of my HD4850, but it simply hasn't yet.
 
Shoot, I spent like 1200 for a gaming rig I built 2 years ago. Don't regret a dime and I'm about to upgrade to win 7-64 bit to tack on another $100.
 
Define "enthusiast." Are enthusiasts purchasing the bulk of these products, or are the people who purchase them just labeled enthusiasts. Last time I checked, there was no user survey at Newegg that asked me what "type" of user I was at checkout.
 
This is how it has always been but it is good to see proof in an article. I always find it is better to let people splurge their big dollars on this stuff and I just get whatever will run my games and apps at a very decent speed saving me money. Then eventually better things come out and repeat..
 


In 1985 the machine I wanted was $6k.

In 1992 the machine i wanted was $5k

In 1997, the machine I wanted was $4k

Since 2000, the machine I want has consistently run about $3k ...w/ all the accessories. Where there's more than 1 or 2 companies making what you need, prices have dropped precipitously.....cases, opticals, HD's, software, etc....where's there's only 1 or 2 ..... GFX cards, CPU's, OS's .... prices have remained stable for 10 years.

I remember paying $1k for a 1 GB SCSI HD in 1993.
 
yep its true. i don't cut corners when it comes to pc gaming. that's the biggest difference between me and HP
 
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