{"id":46208,"date":"2012-10-22T03:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T01:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46208"},"modified":"2012-10-22T03:39:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T01:39:52","slug":"popular-online-hardware-stores-among-sa-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46208-popular-online-hardware-stores-among-sa-gamers","title":{"rendered":"Popular online hardware stores among SA gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest MyGaming Survey results, conducted in September 2012, Takealot is the most popular online store for purchasing hardware among SA&#8217;s gamers, used by 57.46% of the survey participants.<\/p>\n<p>Prophecy came in second (25.88%) and Sybaritic third (18.31%).<\/p>\n<p>With a sample of 912 responses, we are given a good picture of the high-end SA gaming market and their habits.<\/p>\n<p>The following table provides an overview of the survey feedback. The results are ordered according to popularity.<\/p>\n<p>We asked survey participants which online PC hardware stores they use. The percentage is of the total sample of 912, and it exceeds 100% because this was a multiple choice question, meaning participants shop at more than one of the stores listed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#999999\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>SA online hardware shops \u2013 MyGaming survey results (September 2012)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Takealot<\/td>\n<td>57.46%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Prophecy<\/td>\n<td>25.88%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Sybaritic<\/td>\n<td>18.42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Rebeltech<\/td>\n<td>13.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>PC International<\/td>\n<td>10.42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>LandmarkPC<\/td>\n<td>9.32%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Wootware<\/td>\n<td>8.00%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Don&#8217;t buy online<\/td>\n<td>5.81%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Zaps<\/td>\n<td>2.08%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td>Other<\/td>\n<td>18.31%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45602-most-popular-adsl-isp-among-sas-gamers.html\">Most popular ADSL ISP among SA\u2019s gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45881-sas-most-popular-gaming-store.html\">SA\u2019s most popular gaming store<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45738-most-popular-gaming-platforms-in-sa.html\">Most popular gaming platforms in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45603-gaming-connection-of-choice-in-sa.html\">Gaming connection of choice in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45448-sas-most-popular-online-store-among-gamers.html\">SA\u2019s most popular online store among gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"SA\u2019s non-core gamers sustain the market\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45405-sas-non-core-gamers-sustain-the-market.html\">SA\u2019s non-core gamers sustain the market<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45057-sa-game-development-approaching-tipping-point.html\">SA game development approaching tipping point<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest MyGaming survey reveals the most popular online store for hardware purchases among SA gamers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":45484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[21,3380,2597,7316,3379,1982,3453,2752,5793,3381,2079,6224,4094],"class_list":["post-46208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-headline","tag-landmarkpc","tag-mygaming-survey","tag-other","tag-pc-international","tag-prophecy","tag-rebeltech","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sybaritic","tag-takealot","tag-wootware","tag-zaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46209,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46208\/revisions\/46209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}