SA pricing for the average gaming PC on Steam

[Jan]

The average gaming PC on Steam - South African pricing

Steam has published its Hardware Survey for September 2017.

 

[Bryn]

I hardly use Steam these days. Long since taken to buying my games on GOG.

Interesting to see that the average PC is pretty rubbish though. Shows you don't need a beast rig to play games.

 

[Genisys]

I hardly use Steam these days. Long since taken to buying my games on GOG.

Interesting to see that the average PC is pretty rubbish though. Shows you don't need a beast rig to play games.

Not really my thing, prefer sticking to steam. No need to keep track of licenses etc.

 

[HavocXphere]

I hardly use Steam these days. Long since taken to buying my games on GOG.

Interesting to see that the average PC is pretty rubbish though. Shows you don't need a beast rig to play games.

I suspect there are a lot of casual gamers dragging the average down. i.e. People that use whatever tech they have and play casual games rather than gamers buying gear for gaming

 

[Bryn]

Not really my thing, prefer sticking to steam. No need to keep track of licenses etc.

GOG has a proper desktop client, so there's nothing to keep track of there either. Friends lists and multiplayer has long since been added too.

As a very casual gamer I find the games I tend to play on GOG to be the type I most enjoy: Telltale games, Full Throttle, Stardew Valley, Undertale, Inside, Thimbleweed Park, Cuphead, Broken Sword 1, 2 & 5, Hotline Miami 1 & 2, Day of the Tentacle, the Rayman series, Trine 1 & 2 etc.

They're all on Steam as far as I'm aware, but I only found them easily on GOG. I like that they're DRM-free, that the customer service is world class, that the website and desktop client are laid out simply like Steam used to be and that the sales are so much more enjoyable to browse. GOG is like a candy store for games, which sadly Steam can only claim to have once been.

Other than Witcher 3, my favourite games in recent years have required little in the way of horsepower. Which means they work great on any laptop and can be recommended to friends who don't have proper gaming PCs.

I suspect there are a lot of casual gamers dragging the average down. i.e. People that use whatever tech they have and play casual games rather than gamers buying gear for gaming

That's the whole point though. The average PC gamer is not running enthusiast hardware.

 

[ponder]

No need to keep track of licenses etc.

GOG does that as well.

 

[Swa]

Yeah but they can afford it. For them it's only R5000.

Not really my thing, prefer sticking to steam. No need to keep track of licenses etc.

 

[CataclysmZA]

Interesting to see that the average PC is pretty rubbish though. Shows you don't need a beast rig to play games.

Steam's survey doesn't poll their entire userbase, and it will launch more often for new builds made and registered in the survey window, so the ratios get skewed a little with hardware releases.

Still, the average a year ago was a quad-core chip with 8GB RAM, Windows 10, a 1TB hard drive, and a GTX 970. It's mostly dominated by the mid-range, which is why it's a nice tool to estimate sales for mid-range GPUs like the GTX 1060.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

I hardly use Steam these days. Long since taken to buying my games on GOG.

Interesting to see that the average PC is pretty rubbish though. Shows you don't need a beast rig to play games.

I used to prefer GoG as well, until steam changed to ZAR and became quite a bit cheaper as a result.

 

[Bryn]

I used to prefer GoG as well, until steam changed to ZAR and became quite a bit cheaper as a result.

Prices on Steam went up though, probably just because VAT was added. The difference between Steam and GOG prices is worth it now imo. Usually R50-70, and you get a DRM-free purchase.

 

[Swa]

I used to prefer GoG as well, until steam changed to ZAR and became quite a bit cheaper as a result.

You'd think that until you do the calculations. If you only buy single games now and again yes but once you start filling up bundles GoG's policies work out cheaper.