[JonathanMerklin]

Genuinely asking: is that huge in terms of their install base or revenue, or is that huge in terms of PR ramifications (like, "vocal minority" type of deal)? In my younger days I'd've had a heavily skewed pro-gamer and pro-authority-of-the-gamer-rabble viewpoint, but now at this phase of my life I can't help but feel the majority of the places I see Windows are all in business and education contexts (so just business, heyo). I'd be curious to know if the gamer-rabble still holds the kind of weight in the social media aggregate that, say, got the Kinect-as-mandatory stuff walked back.

[ARandumGuy]

Steam has a daily peak userbase of around 33 million users[1]. I haven't been able to find a recent monthly user count, but it's certainly a lot of users. The Steam hardware survey reports over 96% of surveyed users use Windows[2].

Now, we can't say for sure how many of these users primarily use their PC for gaming. But it's probably a lot of them. PC gaming is huge, and it's one of the few areas where a general consumer actually needs a PC, and can't use a phone or tablet.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/

[2]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

[cortesoft]

There is an estimate 1.86 billion PC gamers worldwide.

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/pc-gaming-stats#

[vsuperpower2020]

Was "gamer-rabble" the word of the day?

[JonathanMerklin]

Perhaps not the hyphenated form, but I'd had a chat with a friend a couple days ago where we meandered around some surface level philosophy and I paraphrased a section or two from Thus Spoke Zarathustra about the rabble ([1]), so I'm sure that's why it was front of mind. I only used it twice just to be clear that it was referring to the same thing, I didn't intend for any semantic satiation or emphasis through repetition. My apologies!

[1] http://www.literaturepage.com/read/thusspakezarathustra-107....

[walterbell]

Windows 10 runs on > 1 billion devices.