Newzoo: Forget What You Know About 'Core' PC Gamers

PC gamers have traditionally been a market unto themselves—hardcore, rig-building fans ready to tackle the most graphically-intensive games on the market. While stereotypical hardcore PC gamers do exist in all their overclocked glory, data gathered by Newzoo reveals a parallel group of PC gamers who play less visually-intensive—yet more competitive—games online, calling to question previous assumptions about the demographic as a whole.
PC gamers have traditionally been a market unto themselves—hardcore, rig-building fans ready to tackle the most graphically intensive games on the market. While stereotypical hardcore PC gamers do exist in

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