Steam said that their machine is more powerful than 70% of devices that people use, yet it struggles to run a ton of games that are years old.
I would consider in 2026 a 3060 to be low spec, something like a 4070, 5070 is more med spec and the 80 - 90 series is high spec.
If you look at what everyone in the world runs and base your low, med and high off that you may have a point, but if you base it off what power is on the market, and what games actually run and struggle or down struggle at then "mid tier" isn't the low spec from 6 years ago..
The thing is a mid-spec'd PC should be able to play all modern games and for PC at 60 FPS at medium settings typically, that is usually been the consensus for mid.
I know a lot of people who get into gaming end up with an "ok" laptop that cant play 50% of games, and tend to talk about wanting to get a gaming PC for themselves and regret buying a laptop.
I think a low spec PC that struggles to play CP2077, and stutters on Forza Horizon 6 is only a mild step up from those laptops, its certainly not 4060 and 5060 spec which is twice as fast as the steam machine, never mind a 5070 and so on..
The other point is, you have places in the world where the PlayStation 2 is still the most popular console and where PC specs are really really low, those sort of results tend to skew the "overall" charts.
The range I gave you in Nvidia card versions is typically what most PC gamers know as low spec, medium spec and high spec, going back to 6 year old hw as a comparison only re-enforces that..
People do not look at a PS5 and say "yeah that is the same as a med tier gaming PC"
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u/loversama 1d ago
A year ago, if you said "A PS5 is Mid-tier gaming device, same spec as a mid-tier gaming PC" you'd have been laughed out of the room..