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Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by can@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Before you start making plans to evict your current rig, I want to explain how the Steam Hardware Survey actually works. Rather than representing every player that uses the storefront, the monthly census instead uses a small percentage of participants who've opted in as a sample. It's anything but representative of all 154 million active users, meaning the statistic above isn't an absolute.

Does the author know how *survey sample sizes work?

Do I?

Is it because it's opt in or opt out?

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

So, I don't know what information this is based on, but I'm questioning it.

High end gaming rigs come in pre built, for people who want that kind of warranty, or, more often in my experience, the people who own them build them. Which means they're not super fussed about installing a different OS.

It's more likely that some subset of them play games that require windows (VR, some racing sims, competitive online games that require kernel level anti-cheat etc), and won't switch because of that.

There may be some subset of the gaming populace who wants that without the fuss, and usually they buy consoles. Computer gaming is what it is because people very often like control.

I'm a tinkerer at heart, and one of my older brothers used to build custom gaming rigs as part of his business back in the early 2000's. Most of my family and quite a few of my friends have been computer gamers for decades.

I'd be willing to wager that a fair number of computer gamers aren't bothered about the installation process of steam OS, but might be wary of limiting the games they can play using it.