Curious as to what the average total spend per active user is. I suspect it's considerably lower than that of active console users.
There are all kinds of factors at play here, none of which I have any concrete data on.
First up, there are probably way more console users than pc users. However, a percentage (not a majority, but certainly significant) of those would be kids whose parents buy them one or two games a year.
OTOH, PC gamers tend to have more disposable income (based on the fact that they have at least a pretty decent PC). Plus, steam sales come up all the time and lots of PC gamers have massive libraries of games they bought cheap and never played.
All of these (sometimes conflicting) factors make it hard to tell who spends more.
Especially once we take into account that the "1060" is actually a merging of multiple 1060 SKUs (including mobile) with pretty different performance
I'm not talking about the people buying i7s and 4090s. 100% agree they are a tiny minority. I'm talking about the same modest setups you are.
Even a 1060 (or it's modern equivalent) with an i3 and a 24 inch 1080p panel is more expensive than a PS5/Xbox. And I think it's becoming increasing rare for a family to have a desktop pc unless it's for gaming.
> OTOH, PC gamers tend to have more disposable income (based on the fact that they have at least a pretty decent PC).
If we're talking about on average it's probably the exact reverse of this. I'd be surprised if more than 25% of Steam users were in North America. Not because Steam isn't huge in NA, but because getting a console and games is way harder in most other countries than running what you can on the family PC.
For example (at least before the sanctions) Russia makes up the largest portion of CS:GO and DOTA2 players. At least for DOTA2 it's more then double the number of American players.
i bet without cs and dota steams revenue per user has been in decline over the past 5 years as money moves from paid libraries to paid addons in free games