Great thanks! I knew this was a stupid topic for a reason but couldn’t put my finger on it.
I just looked up the list real quick and made a rough estimate, because I was curious as well now.
if we take 30 million users daily,
and we only add up thr percentages for people that use a desktop variant cards that are on par or better than the consoles (2070 or higher on Nvidia and the handful of AMD cards that fall into this), we have 16.72%,
this means daily users should be about 5 million desktop PCs that are as powerful or more powerful than a PS5.
but I only used RT capable cards in this.
if we add non RT accelerated cards we would also need to add the 1080ti and like 2 AMD 5000 series cards.
now if we look at monthly users, which are more than 130 million (these are the 2021 numbers I found, so should be even higher now),
then 16.72% of that is 21.73 million users each month with better or equal RT accelerated desktop PC GPUs used on Steam.
using Laptop hardware is less reliable to say, as the same GPU in one Laptop could be drastically less powerful than in another Laptop simply due to the power limit set by the manufacturer.
what also needs to be said is that you can get PS5 equivalent performance, with a small hit to image quality on many lower end RTX cards thanks to DLSS.
so you might have a situation where someone with a 3050 or 2060 card has almost the same visual experience as a PS5 user thanks to the better RT cores and DLSS.
and of course, PCs that can run all current gen titles is WAY bigger than that still.
the Series S equivalent or better cards added would mean anything above a GTX1070 would easily qualify
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. Plus the majority of those gamers in steam are playing decade old free to play games, that's not a future I want lol.
