15% of steam user are playing new games! everyone else is playing old games!

[@Nobody-w8n4s]

Dude, Steam got me looking @ 15$ games like 🤨 that’s a lot of money 😂😂😂

[@DOC_DARK1985]

U ain't lying lmao

[@raymondnieves3710]

All the time!! Bruh!!😂😂😂

[@pedromartinez-xt7ye]

​@@DOC_DARK1985doc do you plan on attending your brother's retirement ceremony next year

[@erey214]

Yup

[@Looptroop98]

That’s why you should’ve stayed with console you could’ve had the funds instead of deciding wether or not 15 bucks will be wasted

[@smwfreak1647]

doc spitting fr. Im a part of the people that only played most older games, actually felt ive been having fun playing em which is wild.

[@be3beru708]

Im part of that 15%. 53% of my games this year are new games :)

[@AnANas00-x3p]

Wait till doc leans about mods for his games 😁

[@PCgamerChannel]

I've never even felt the urge to use a mod XD

[@killahkurlz7157]

@@PCgamerChannelyou should give it a go.

[@SxDGamer-i8m]

New Games are the Worst! Most are them are unfinished, Censored and force a certain Agenda which makes them Garbage. The older games are games in their prime and probably their Purest form we will ever play.

[@Gakki_Aniki]

also forced TAA with blurry image ruining the graphics and the performance is unoptimized

[@rn4l863]

He’s speaking Facts 💯 people just tried GTA 4 on PC , Man! when they say they should Remaster it on console its Already done for you on PC. Looks feels and is better then GTA 5 in some aspects. For the Non believers PC is so Top Notch i guarantee you’re going to wanna play every game again you probably ever played. This is From a Xbox guy

[@AnANas00-x3p]

Try GTA IV with mods bruw, it will blow your mind.

[@Yoko.Kurama]

Gta 4 is notoriously known for its terrible pc port

[@AnANas00-x3p]

@@Yoko.Kurama yeah, lazy port. But it's running like a dream with dxvk fix.

[@rn4l863]

@@Yoko.Kurama i have no idea what your talking about its near perfect for me

[@aeolussvichi7680]

Not surprised when 90%+ of the stream community doesn’t have rigs to play current gen games well 🤷‍♂️

[@DOC_DARK1985]

Or current Gen games at high baettingts

[@aeolussvichi7680]

@ don’t know what that last word was you meant to say but sure. But we also not gonna deny steams own stats in that the vast majority of people’s rigs are very under powered. And this is further driven how by the outrage a lot of pc guys had over the pro price and performance wise.

[@joelbunton8217]

I played H zero dawn a few months back and it looked and ran amazing on my 4080, only paid $10 don't need the enhanced version for $50. Doc are doing reviews after you beat these games or at least tell us which Batman or whatever you enjoyed the most.

[@aaronclay4665]

Yes but it's a 4080... and it cost around 1k.....and if you buy the 10. Upgrade for horizon it will look even.better, unless they are just selling the remaster on pc

[@Looptroop98]

Dawg the enhanced version for PlayStation is 10 bucks too if you already owned the game

[@aquapendulum]

There are some exceptions to this. Remember Assassin's Creed II? There was a remaster of it in the "Ezio Collection" that actually looks better than the existing PC port way back in 2010, but the Ezio Collection is console-only. PC doesn't always get a remaster by upgrading the hardware.

[@biggezee]

You are new to PC gaming...lol. We don't care about remakes of old games because we can MOD the ones we already own. new hardware has nothing to do with it. Stop trying to sound like you're a true PC gamer my boy.

[@DreamyAbaddon]

I'm currently playing the original Baldur's Gate 1 on my Windows 98 emulator. After that, I'll move on to the original Baldur's Gate 2, and then I'll finally dive into Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam. You're absolutely right, PC gamers with backlogs usually don’t worry about when a game was released. To most of us, a game we haven’t played yet is new, regardless of its release year. With millions of PC games available, the sheer volume is already overwhelming. In contrast, consoles have fewer titles, so new releases tend to generate more hype. Plus, as a PC gamer, I don’t see much value in buying remakes or remasters when free mods can enhance the graphics just fine.

[@laracroft8553]

I've never tried a game mod, I prob will when Stellar Blade comes to PC, wink wink.

[@yurgen95]

1. 15% on PC is a lot (about 20 million out of the 69 million player daily and 132 million active users). Just in case 2. Good old games are alive and kicking on PC, you got all CS games, good old l4d2, the good battlefield games, titanfall 2 and also old F2P games like warframe or paladins, or indie gems like project zomboid. And outside of steam you can even play online games so old as of PS2 like RE outbreak 1 and 2, but thats a secret hahha. 3. Why would you buy new games if they mostly come out unoptimized and incomplete? by the time those games are fully fixed they will already be

[@2drealms196]

Steamstats, people forget, only 40% of Steam users are from 1st world countries (NA/EU/UK/AUS/JP/NZ). And within EU you have to keep in mind there are many countries with lower incomes like Romania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Greece, etc where wages are around half of that of Americans. These are wonderful people's and countries, its just their average incomes are lower, so not as many have the disposable income to buy a PS5-class gpu/cpu combo and regularly buy the latest games.

[@yurgen95]

@2drealms196 kinda, but around 60% of steam users do have GPU's that are better or around the same range as a PS5/Xbox Series console...

[@srahman8124]

Doc couldn't survive the Winter sale 😂 Told yah

[@DOC_DARK1985]

?? I haven't bought anything yet

[@srahman8124]

@DOC_DARK1985 if u accept gifts, that count too. No new game u said for backlog challenge 😆

[@beyond-the-soul8651]

They already did the last of us part two remastered that’s not a rumor. They released it on PlayStation now they’re gonna release it on PC April next year.

[@SikSlayer]

Exactly. Because theres so much to play... Console isn't all THAT much different, or wouldn't be if all past games on a given platform ran, ie backwards compatibility, the way it is on PC. Funny how the first comment I see here is some console warrior talking that crap. Clearly didn't watch the video before posting.

[@aaronclay4665]

Ps5 plays all ps4 games....and sure should they make them able to play ps2 or ps3 games? SURE.. But it won't matter right? Cuz no one likes physical.....if ps5 did play ps3 games most ppl would just habe to.buy it on ps5 digitally....LOKE THEY DO NOW...same with pc, I csnt play doom on.pc or command ans conquer cuz I had the dusk version back in the day...no one uses disk drives now, most if not all towers don't have room for them... Although I hope physical never dies on console. Fuck pc and. Ot owning games

[@nickelshark8163]

I think another big factor are the steam sales. Right now they are having their winter sale and there are some bangers that are heavily discounted right now.

[@joseijosei]

There are over 1 billion Steam users, and even if you count for monthly active users only, that percentage stills represents a huge number of players. You'll be more surprise to learn about the percentage of PC gamers that are active on Steam in the first place. We simply have way more options. We have PC exclusive multiplayer games. We have indies. Indies that are PC exclusives too. Emulation, games from previous generations, etc, but that has no weight on the fact that many devs are making most of their money from PC. In other words: who cares? Devs have a huge incentive to release their games on PC. We're still getting all console games and way more.

[@vjbd2757]

I'm still here playing Fallout 4. Yes I know it's not the best of the series but it's very addicting

[@bigjon8744]

Thank you ! 😭 they don’t realize That Games on PC have a lot more longevity cause they’re not on a restricted platform that limits how games can Run. The Witcher 3 or cyberpunk on PC for example look way better than most games that came out this year on console .Games don’t become “outdated” on PC like they do on consoles. Like you said , a new GPU upgrade is your remaster right there lol these fanboys are ignorant when it comes to things like this

[@BakiKing-g8v]

😂 Yeah, new hardware and operating systems never cause issues with old games. 😂

[@bigjon8744]

@ you’re joking right? 😭 you do realize that’s not a issue whatsoever for most games in the last decade .The only older games I can even think of that cause instability are some that were built for The “Games for windows system” which doesn’t exist anymore . Those are games MUCH older than I was even referring to , like 2000s old. Either way all it takes is one mod and they run smooth as butter so what’s your point?💀

[@BakiKing-g8v]

@ Yeah. Not an isaue at all. That’s why when you go to Nexus, the most popular mods are fixes for badly optimized games. 👍 I’ve been gaming on PC since the 90s. The issues have only gotten worse with AAA games. Mods don’t always work. Some games you can’t get running. Some games, you have to buy the GOG version, because Steam isn’t good at keeping their games up to speed on the latest OS. 👍 We are hitting the ceiling when it comes to graphics, and upscaling technology on consoles is slowly closing the gap. The only significant thing a PC can offer is frames, and anything past 60 isn’t necessary. As a matter of fact, the only difference between a game running on ultra settings on a 3060 and a 4090 is frames. Ultra settings are ultra settings. The difference between high and ultra isn’t much. With the optimization issues, PC has become the worst platform.

[@jonbuckets-i8f]

@@BakiKing-g8vI’ve played older games all year long and haven’t had a single issue lol stop exaggerating , and saying PC is the worst platform when it’s far more popular than console gaming despite being more expensive is just a dumb statement I’m sorry 😂 there’s not a single thing you can do on console that you can’t do on PC lmaoo Once I got my PC my consoles started collecting dust. Stop hating on a platform because you have a weird allegiance to ur precious box lmao

[@bigjon8744]

@@BakiKing-g8v Funny how PC gamers play mostly older games but according to u they “don’t work”😂 smart logic buddy. Also if you think anything last 60fps is “irrelevant” then u need glasses tbh if u actually played on PC for years you know that’s bare minimum for acceptable performance . Plus it’s not just about Visuals , you feel the gameplay smoothness with higher fps too. I’m not even going to entrain the 3060 vs 4090 statement 💀 I’m just gonna say educate yourself Also Upscaling has been on PC for 6 plus years. It’s not this new revolutionary tech💀 Nor does it represent true performance. Even old GPUs can upscale so there’s no gap being closed, relax buddy , they don’t even have frame gen😭 consoles are just cheaper decent prebuilts that are restricted for Casual gamers who want to play current gen games with decent quality at a low price. That’s always been the point of consoles. I have a ps5 and PC , PCs are just objectively better In basically every way🤷‍♂️ no hate for console but PCs do everything better. It is what it is

[@AlboManny]

I would guess that those stats would be similar on PlayStation and Xbox. Most gamers are only buying one or two new games a year.

[@kellhound8645]

I finally got a STEAM account in the middle of last Month, I currently have 15 game in my library ( not including the free ones I got from Prime) at a total coast of $43.00. Yeah they are old titles but the fact that I've been away from gaming for the past 8+ years, is why it works out great for me.😄

[@Coach_Tillar]

I know i use my steam deck to play old games I have missed.

[@TRENDINGSTREAM]

Wow! After years of putting out comments just to be a gamer and play games no matter what system they're on, you finally learn. Now you are beyond the levels to this

[@apollodingo3583]

15 percent is a lot of time. It’s up from 9 percent of the previous year. The reason it’s only 15 percent is because of how much of the time is spent playing live service games like CSGO.

[@utsavpradhan2754]

Truth hurts doesn't it doc 😂

[@beyond-the-soul8651]

The only time I am OK paying a premium for a remaster is when you can no longer buy it on a storefront. For example lollipop chainsaw, or shadows of the damned that just released those games I bought recently. Especially since I don’t like emulating games that often because it’s not very convenient to play them and boot them up when I could just buy the remastered version of a game

[@pedromartinez-xt7ye]

More people are playing helldivers 2 on steam then cod

[@srahman8124]

They're not Lol stop lying to urself 😂

[@FiniteRich]

steamdb says no

[@PerfectFitGE8]

Why would it blow you mind. Majority of people have potato rigs.

[@eweezy55]

Hence why PC players don't mind waiting for the Sony exclusives. Nothing will make them buy a PS1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 10. They will wait because the steam backlog is next level. Lol ponies actually think PC gamers will run out and drop $800 for a pro to play GTA6. Naw, PC gaming is all about the long game.

[@504Trey]

Ponies have the nerve to talk about PC gamers playing mostly old game meanwhile all Ponies do is beg & prey & brag about getting Xbox old games that we beat 2 or 3 times by now & moved on to several other games by the time they get it & brag about it 😂😂😂

[@rashaddow]

So the original RE9 and the remake or remaster looks the same on pc?

[@Curt1813]

RE9 ain't out bro

[@rashaddow]

@Curt1813 I know that. I'm asking. Will it not improve? Nobody on pc should buy it if they already have it right? There will be no improvement.

[@Daya97228]

@@rashaddow A remake is technically a new game contrary to remasters. I believe Doc was talking about remasters(as he says multiple times) I find it weird that you are smart enough to try and use sarcasm but not enough to understand what he meant. But here it is for your understanding, remakes are new games based on older games story, themes and brand. Remasters are just technical improvements like graphics and performance.

[@rashaddow]

@Daya97228 He said remake and remastered but ok since you jumped up to answer. Is the minimal pc specs for a original game the same for its remastered? Do they look the same regardless? Yes or no? I'm smart enough to think before I make comments.

[@Daya97228]

@@rashaddow The answer is no. The remaster clearly suggests that you play it on the adequate modern hardware. Legitimate remastered games are supposed to look better. I see your point, and I would agree. This said, having been on relatively high en pcs for years, I haven't experienced any remastered of a game I have already beaten worth paying for. But again, I will always buy the remastered over the original if I had to buy a game regardless. Thinking about it, if I get your point right, you are indeed smart and I was too fast to react. Makes me feel a bit like an idiot lol.

[@GarretGreen]

3:36 So much cap in this statement I dont know where to begin. The remasters they are making are $10 upgrades not full price. And PS had a dozen exclusive last year of brand new games. I'm tired of this narrative yall keep trying to spin.

[@TNTITAN]

Hmm $60-80 dollar new game vs $1-10 old game. I wonder why choose older game. I wonder I wonder.

[@Jets_Fan_4_Life]

What remakes has to do with playing new games Doc?

[@johnbaptiste1440]

He exposed pc gamers by accident he's talking about backlog like it's only pc gamers that have backlog.

[@johnbaptiste1440]

He's right Playstation has us playing nothing but old games remakes and remasters. Spider-Man Miles Morales, Ratchet and Clank rift apart, Returnal, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7, Spider-Man 2, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade don't forget his year's GOTY ASTRO Bot none of those games got remastered and remade If you wanna talk about remasters Nintendo is the king.

[@Dragon_Lair]

You do realize that almost all of those games came out in the last 7-10 years, right?

[@johnbaptiste1440]

@Dragon_Lair I didn't name a single game that came out 7 years ago or more.

[@Dragon_Lair]

@@johnbaptiste1440 Doesn’t matter. Most of them are old games, or are remake of old games. PlayStation is just the remake and remaster station now. They don’t come out with new games.

[@johnbaptiste1440]

@Dragon_Lair Stellar Blade, Returnal, Rise of the Ronin are all brand new iPs and the other ones are sequels... They just announced intergalactic which is a brand new IP.

[@theroom4286]

Didn't the last of us part 2 already get a remaster?

[@ViperBitenESP]

Because most pc ppl dont pay fir new games...they download them free lol

[@mikaelpage88]

So basically Sony has the right strategy. Even if they were to release day and date 85% of yall PC players are playing old games lol.

[@SQUIRELS79]

It makes sense I wait for a sale usually the good sales don't happen until a year after

[@Buddhakingpen]

What a dumb argument lol. Like games made before current year hold no entertainment value strictly because they arent new. Terminator 2 is no longer a classic. Why do they make kids read to kill a mockingbird in school? Noob ass school systems. Get new books.

[@nategreatgames78]

Playtime and users are two different statistics and it’s 15 % of the TIME spent by all users was on games released in 2024. The thing is the library of games released in 2024 compared to everything else on Steam released prior to that is miniscule, so of course it’s going to be a small number, and there are a lot of variables to that, some people that folks with older hardware using Steam may not be able to run some of these newer games. But that being said one thing that is telling is for the number of games played during the year, the median on Steam is 4 which just seems nuts. Steam users have the biggest libraries and backlocks yet play the least amount of games. And most stream users don’t even play games on Steam longer than a week before they stop. Personally I had 0% playtime on anything release in 2024, one because anything I did play released in 2024 I played on Gamepass. And secondly I have so many backlog games, it is fiscally stupid for me to pay full price for brand new games that is just going to add to my list of Ill get around to it, so any games I buy outside of something like GTA 6 I’m going to wait for until it gets a major discount.

[@josiahsuarez]

I've got such a big backlog of already purchased games that I won't be purchasing anything new for atleast a year. Btw I play on pc, playstation, and nintendo switch LOL :P

[@jonbuckets-i8f]

Most Older games look and play phenomenal on PC . A lot of which even better than some newer games lol I think console gamers think old games look and run how they did back on their old gen consoles but that’s not how it is on PC. Like you said PCs don’t really need remasters for the most part

[@aullintv]

The problem with your arugment is that PS5 can also play new games and PC games can't. How about Spiderman 2? Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth? Astro Bot? Can you play those NEW games on PC? Majoity of the PC gamers only plays CS2, Valorant, League of Legends and fortnite. The biggest game in the world Call of Duty and 80% is on Playstation. GTA VI will be released ONLY on consoles. Publishers know which platform will sell the most and it's not PC

[@ELpeaceonearth]

Bro I'm a pc guy and I have no interest in playing any of those gam3s including Indiana jhones

[@aullintv]

@@ELpeaceonearth I didn't say you have to be interested in those games. But don't pretend Sony is not bringing "NEW" games to their consoles. Also im a PC guy but I'm not blind

[@rahulpandey9472]

The majority of console gamers are also playing the same 10 old games. It's the same everywhere: Fortnite, COD, Minecraft, Roblox, Apex, overwatch, FIFA, and a few others.

[@aullintv]

@@rahulpandey9472 Yes but there are new single player games that is only available on consoles and not PC

[@bp-it3ve]

@@aullintv This games are only time exvlusives and will eventually be on pc just like most Sony games before.

[@elcourier]

Resident Evil 4 remake is really a new game… that’s not a good example of how people on PlayStation have been playing remastered games.. if “PC gamers” are skipping out on Resident Evil 4 remake because they have already played the original Resident Evil 4 on a high end PC they are missing out big time

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

I have played a total of three games that released in 2024. That's it.

[@rahulpandey9472]

Every second AAA game is a UE5 slop, so who even wants to play them? I have played a few new indie games and only a single UE5 game this year; the rest are old games. I started playing BG3 again and condemned criminal origins.I had never played this one, so I installed some mods and am enjoying it. It's a pretty good game.

[@isxl-iy2gk]

I just got a new pc, 4070 super i9 13700kf, from a ps5 for like 1200, the difference is astronomical, im literally going back to play old games i played on my ps5 bc i feel like owe a apology to myself for thinking the ps5 looked good, tho i still use my ps5 as a blu ray player snd like other streaming services

[@jiggerypokery2962]

Sad, it was a banner year. I have TLoU 1, Horizon Zero Dawn, TLoU2 and they all work on my PS5 perfectly fine. I bought the remakes and remasters because it's just a better experience. It's not that is unavalible. Resolution and frame rate have very little to do with how a game looks. It's all art direction and graphical fidelity matter way more to how a game looks.

[@ELpeaceonearth]

Frame rate is def important the rest is not 80-120fps+ just feels way more smoothly like rn im playing dark souls 1 can't go over 60 fps but can go up to 240hz and that makes it a tear free smooth experience

[@jiggerypokery2962]

@ tearing is fixed by vrr which the consoles have, and smoothnesses absolutely does not beat look in enjoyment. I source all the people playing at 30 on the switch

[@khoward1033]

Right, bc 99% of great games are old games.

[@hvdiv17]

your thinking about remasters as old games🤣

[@Purple_Haze]

I just watched this and am not sure what this video is about.....also, why can't you ever close the dryer door? 🙂Happy Holidays 🙂

[@battlepowered]

maybe.. But I play a lot of old games because they go on sale for dirt cheap.

[@Nobody-w8n4s]

Dude, like a dollar….

[@devilshooter126m8]

6:20- NO, Just a gamer YES

[@nelsongaming12]

That seems high most pc players play 6 plus year old games that's what their rigs can handle.

[@510DeshawnPlays]

LMAO im apart of the 85%

[@DarkMage1972]

And? I bet a lot of people is reading 100 year old books. We Pc gamers think that if a game is good, we don't care how old it is.

[@smwfreak1647]

its always only pony fanboys.

[@kbthegoat824]

Stop comparing remasters to remakes, they're not the same. Resident evil 4 remake isnt the same as og re4 on pc. Same with dead space, silent hill 2 and many other remakes. Nobody really cares that much about remasters but remakes on the other hands is different...most gamers love remakes of older games. Tlou and horizon is simply frowned upon because they're not that old and not needed, they're pretty much just remasters

[@SNKev411]

Doc who is saying this about pc game put them on blast don't just talk about them and make it ambitious call em out

[@itsprod.472]

That’s cuz most of these new games are hot garbage or the same thing (BR, Hero Shooter etc.

[@AG-PC336]

Pc is funner im sorry, but pc is full of games and you can just grab a old game and experience it again, I got bored of xsx in 3 months i have never got bored of pc gaming in 3-4 years, glad doc is enjoying a walmart pc lol😅, I still cant get over that walmart pc title

[@bshn10]

All the cheapos and the brokies love steam we know

[@DragonKing_V]

Pure cap doc resident evil 4 original vs the remake is pure cap. Pc players prefer the newer remaster.

[@DragonKing_V]

Old games are cheaper, plus if you never played it before it is new to you. Its a win in my book. 😂😂 and doc people on playstation buy games on sale all of the time. Remasters are released on pc as well😂 stop cappin.

[@devilshooter126m8]

I LOVE emulators

[@NTGJaguar]

Because new games are shit 😅😅😅😅 I would rather replay BioShock for the 50 th time doesn't have to with anything I buy the games but Steam lets me refund so idk I bought God of War and Spiderman refund bland boring make better games that old ones PC gamers have to many choices to play new slop old masterpiece any day this video is pointless

[@apollodingo3583]

This has nothing to do with it. First 15 percent of the time is a lot of time. Second, steam gamers play a lot of love service games. Live service gamers typically play way more than single player gamers.

[@michaeldietz2648]

I don’t see any normal PlayStation fans disagreeing with that (sounds like you just made it up because you wanna start an imaginary fight with PlayStation fanboys) I would say that this is probably how it is with every platform. Normal people do buy their favorite games when they come out and other games that they’re interested in, they wait for our sale because they might feel it’s not worth paying full price for and get it like a year or two down the road. I’m sure that these numbers are similar across PlayStation and Nintendo as well. For example, I just bought Star Wars Survivor yesterday because it’s $20 at Best Buy’s and have been playing it today.