Originally Posted by
Kagthul
For one thing, the above is bullshit. It only shows data from your “market” unless you set it otherwise. Using the API you can also do just one country, or literally any other criteria it measures, including GPU (so you could exclude anything using an iGPU if you wanted).
But no, not relying solely on Steam. Sales figures are also extremely telling. High refresh monitors are sub-1% of sales. Resolutions over 1080p are similarly low - less than 5%. High refresh monitors werent even affordable until about the last 15 to 18 momths, so to assume that even enthusiasts “likely” have a high refresh panel is absurd. I know its hard, but you have to remove yourself and your preconceptions when approaching these issues.
From my rig:
Coire i5 8600K, ASUS Z370i mITX motherboard, 16GB of G.Skill DDR4-3200 RGB RAM, GTX 1080Ti FTW3, 256GB SSD, 1TB 7200 RPM 2.5” drive, Phanteks Enthoo Shift, Corsair H80i, BeQuiet! Fans, etc...
Youd “assume” i -must- have a high refresh monitor.
Yeah, well... i dont. I have a nice ASUS 1080p IPS display. Ill replace it, probably in the next three to six months or so... but spending budget on the rig itself was always going to be more important than a monitor. I can, after all, use DSR to get more out of my current monitor somthe extra GPU muscle isnt entirely wasted.
Fact is, a LOT of people dont have high refresh, gsync, or QHD monitors. The people posting here are NOT representative of the average. Were a small percentage of a small percentage to begin with. Younhave to keep that in mind, and not make unfounded leaps and “assumptions”.