Waiting for someone to point out that Steam Survey is a total non reflection of marketshare. Sorry but that doesn't sway with me. The survey prompts at least every so often. Possibly once every 2 months or close. Even my 4 year old clicks next all the time.
Steam has been around for more than 10 years now. It currently has over 4 million users online as I type. It's a pretty effin' good indication lol. Roughly sway that with their quarterly increases and you've got at the very least a pretty sound idea of what is selling.
Sorry, when the steam survey comes around it's a completely random selection of users. And, I am nearly sure if you opt out when it asks, you don't ever get asked again. You will only get included again in the random selection if you reinstall steam or move to a new computer.
I am not going to argue the figures. The steam survey might be an accurate representation of what hardware gamers are using, I don't know, but neither does anyone else.
However, I would bet that more people don't do the survey than do it. A lot of people when they see the word "survey" just click close straight away. And others are completely paranoid about privacy and would never select it.
Somebody else in the thread said that integrated CPU's aren't for serious gaming. LOL, You can't just say that integrated GPU's don't count for gaming just because they don't fit your criteria of what gaming is. Lots of people game quite happily at lowest detail levels and don't care for anything better.
And then there is the other side of the coin, how many people buy discrete GPU's and never game on them? Like how many coin miners have filled out a steam survey??
My point is, that the only figures we can go on are the overall sales figures. We don't know what the video cards are been used for and unless we go door to door and ask everyone we will never know for sure.
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