Intel: "There are 711 million PC gamers in the world today"

Um... you must not remember the PS3's cracking by that geohotz guy. He created a boot app that could load onto a USB stick and boot the game directly from the HDD.

No burning bullshit at all.

And I don't recall a time when a PC game was leaked over two weeks early.

Still more work than pirating on pc and how long into the PS 3's life before this was possible?

And what about the new consoles?

PS3:

1. Download torrent to HDD
2. Download boot app to USB
3. Insert both into PS3 and play

PC:

1. Download torrent
2. Find/install program to mount torrent to virtual drive
3. Install torrent
4. Find/install crack to circumvent copy protection

No, I think it's easier to do on the PS3 at least.

Are you fking joking with that comparison lmao? The PC steps are hilarious, and you are missing steps on the PS3 side.

Many cards are sold as companion cards, and many are sold for video editing and uses other than gaming. A lot of cards were sold for coin mining as well. We'd never find out that way. Best we can go off of is steam stats.

You guys should probably not discuss steps for pirating games

I don't think there are that many PC gamers but hey, that's just my guess. Not that I have a problem with the increasing number of PC gamers.

HAHAHAHAHAH

SO FUNNY SO FREAKING FUNNY.

You comparing 711 million with 8.5 million?

Please. There are enough games on steam alone that have a better rig than ps4.

See the difirence is that you bought ps4s with NO GAMES while those people who havent bought a ps4 yet can play games and buy a new pc when they need to, not buy into the hype.

I thought people would catch the Tormentos act.

Apparently there's plenty of people playing on PC already.

I do as well. My pc shits on consoles

yes and 98% of them has intel 4004

lawl.

wut?

yes intel, there are 700+ million pcs out in the wild. yes intel, you can play games on them. yes intel, the sky is fucking blue.

Where did you hear that lie from? PC software is pirated almost 10x's more then console games. Just talk to the Korean & Chinese government. Like 80% of there PC game software is pirated. lol!!

If we're counting those that exceed it, more than the no. of PS4s.

sources

Hermits steal games or wait patiently for the price to drop on Steam or GoG. This is why many PC game developers jumped to game consoles.

There are markets in Hong Kong where you can buy modded consoles and pirated copies of games by the bag. Console piracy is huge in places like China, the Middle East and Brazil, where people don't have the money Westerners do.

Indeed. You can pretty much conclude that 500-550 million of them are 'Facebook' gamers and the remaining 150-200 million are 'real gamers' that play MMOs, RTS, MOBAs, FPS and so on.

@freedomfreak: probably a lot more then next gen sales, but sadly there are a lot of people prefers pirating/f2p games

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/more-than-one-third-of-people-in-the-us-age-8-play/1100-6422216/

@clyde46 said:

lawl.

A gaming pc with dual core cpu in 2014? LOL!

I hightly doubt that number is accurate, but with the players some games have, I would likely suspect around the 70-110 mill. Spread out throughout alot of different services and games.