[Lexandro]

Anton, the steam survey is nowhere near an accurate representation of the average gaming system. Ive had steam for about 5 years and still have never done the survey as have many others on Steam. Also not everyone who games actually has Steam. I know of a several people who simply refuse to use it due to previous issues with the system.

In short its not accurate, and if thats what you are basing your projected sales on, I honestly suggest you invest in some market research by an approved agent for any future developement.

And as for your comment on my rig. I have 2 PC's, this one is in the living room and has an AMD X2 CPU 2gb Ram and an HD 3870, while my main rig has a Phenom2, 4gb ram and a single 4870. I was going to go crossfire but decided against it in favour of buying a 360. Its currently needing a new OS install as I just replaced a defective HDD (damn you Hitachi!), and im waiting on my Win7 pre-order coming. And I regularly chat with people who have much more powerfull systems than me, plus they have several systems which they use to fold with.

And in graphics, iirc the exact statement by Nvidia was "We now have a card that makes the PS3's RSX obsolete", and that was oh about a year ago now.

EDIT* Oh yeah and take a look at GTAIV for the PC. It FAR exceeds what you term "mainstream" in its system requirements and it has still sold well on the PC.