[krelian]

>I mean that is what normal people care about, too.

Depends on how you define normal. I think it's much more likely that the number of people who care about it deeply is extremely small - a small sub-group within the group of people who see gaming as their main hobby.

[theshackleford]

> I think it's much more likely that the number of people who care about it deeply is extremely small

And yet large enough to support the existence of DF whom has a heavy focus on exactly this. So obviously a market exists.

[sandspar]

My sense is that frame rate is a buzzy topic for nerds to nerd out over. The same way that nerds use to nerd out over RAM. Talking about it seems like a high effort status signal. But those can be swapped out for other things easily.