tammerwhisk: I don't live there obviously so I can't say, but I also know XP seems to have the strongest entrenchment in regions where there is huge economic disparity or messed up pricing/market access. I know hardware costs there tend to be like 1.5 to 4 times USD value.
Aemony: Russia (2nd, 10.31%), China (3rd, 7.3%) and Brazil (4th, 4.79%) are actually three of the four largest countries represented on Steam. The largest being the US with 15.58% of the Steam userbase. So the <1% for XP amongst Steam users doesn't really indicate anything in regards to
where those users might be located.
Was mostly going off anecdotal experience from arguing on the Steam forums. Some of the most passionate 32bit/XP users have come from those regions and those regions really really heavily favor low requirements F2P MP games (and balk when patches come through that increase requirements).
Granted this is far from scientific. *shrug*
tammerwhisk: I don't live there obviously so I can't say, but I also know XP seems to have the strongest entrenchment in regions where there is huge economic disparity or messed up pricing/market access. I know hardware costs there tend to be like 1.5 to 4 times USD value.
ToasterBox: Well at least for Middle/High Class families here, I can confirm there is not that big economic disparity that you are talking about. Most people that I know that are gamer enthusiasts own the latest hardware required to run the latest releases like Doom or Rise of Tomb Raider in 4k. And even those that arent that big of hardware enthusiasts manage to buy a PC decent enough to run the latest games without lag or a console such as the Xbox One or Ps4. My family, friends and most people that I know in my University Campus and Work have one of the latest Iphones or smartphones.
I myself own a PC with 32gb of ram, Nvidia 1080, one of the latest I7 and 4 tb of HD.
Sure there is some economic disparity between our countries. But its not like we are Africa. Most Hardware here isnt expensive because of messed up market pricing, but because of taxes imposed by our government. However most Middle Class families still manage to keep up with the latest hardware innovations around the world.
Apologies if I came off poorly or anything, I know a few people from Brazil but they are all upper middle-class so they can afford the horrific prices you guys see on tech.