{"id":70654,"date":"2014-12-01T06:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T04:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70654"},"modified":"2014-12-01T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T05:00:18","slug":"how-much-mygaming-readers-spend-on-their-pcs-survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70654-how-much-mygaming-readers-spend-on-their-pcs-survey-results","title":{"rendered":"How much MyGaming readers spend on their PCs: survey results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70402-mygaming-pc-spend-survey.html\">MyGaming PC spend survey<\/a>, and they make for interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>514 PC gamers took part in the survey, which was set up to gauge how much the average South African PC gamer spends on their rig.<\/p>\n<p>As most of the respondents to the survey are MyBroadband and MyGaming readers, we can say with a fair degree of certainty that the results are representative of PC gamers who are interested in tech and gaming and have an Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>The survey had five questions (for those of you who did not take part, tsk tsk):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much did you initially spend on your current gaming PC?<\/li>\n<li>How much have you spent on your gaming PC in the last five years?<\/li>\n<li>How much have you spent on games in the last five years?<\/li>\n<li>How much have you spent on PC gaming memorabilia in the last five years?<\/li>\n<li>Which biscuit is your favourite?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the top results from each category.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">How much did you initially spend on your current gaming PC?<\/h3>\n<p>Over a quarter\u00a0of PC gamers initially spent over R15,000 on their gaming rigs, while close to 50% of gamers spent at least R8,000 on their PC.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R15,000+:<strong> 25.68%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R10,000 &#8211; R10,999: <strong>9.14%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R9,000 &#8211; R9,999:<strong> 6.03%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R8,000 &#8211; R8,999: <strong>6.03%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">How much have you spent on your gaming PC in the last five years?<\/h3>\n<p>Similarly to before, close to a quarter of gamers have spent R15,000 or more upgrading their PCs in the past five years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R15,000+: <strong>23.35%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R3,000 &#8211; R3,999:<strong> 6.61%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R1 &#8211; R999: <strong>6.61%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R1,000 &#8211; R1,999: <strong>6.42%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">How much have you spent on games in the last five years?<\/h3>\n<p>The game spend was somewhat lower than that on hardware, as one would expect.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R2,000 &#8211; R,2999: <strong>16.73%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R5,000 &#8211; R5,999: <strong>10.70%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R1,000 &#8211; R1,999: <strong>10.12%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R1 &#8211; R999: <strong>9.92%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">How much have you spent on PC gaming memorabilia in the last five years?<\/h3>\n<p>Gaming memorabilia spend was even lower than that on PC games, although 0.78% admitted to spending over R15,000 on collectible items.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R1 &#8211; R999: <strong>51.56%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R0 (No Answer): <strong>26.46%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R1,000 &#8211; R1,999: <strong>5.25%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>R2,000 &#8211; R2,999: <strong>1.17%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Which biscuit is your favourite?<\/h3>\n<p>The moment we have all been waiting for.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I only eat bacon: <strong>17.12%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Romany Creams: <strong>16.73%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Oreo: <strong>12.84%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lemon Creams: <strong>5.06%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_70476\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bacon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70476\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70476\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bacon-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Bacon...\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bacon-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bacon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacon&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, in summary, a lot of local PC gamers have spent at least R15,000\u00a0on their gaming PCs in the past five years, don&#8217;t spend much on games (thanks Steam), have bought the odd Far Cry t-shirt or the like, and worship the God of Bacon.<\/p>\n<p>Do you fit this description? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/70360-do-exclusives-sell-consoles.html\">Do exclusives sell consoles?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/70596-gta-5-next-gen-is-it-the-best-game-of-2014.html\">GTA 5 \u201cnext-gen\u201d \u2013 is it the best game of 2014?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/70392-biggest-let-downs-of-the-last-generation.html\">Biggest let downs of the \u201clast generation\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in for the MyGaming PC spend survey. Plus, find out which biscuit is the most popular among PC gamers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":70658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,2597,807],"class_list":["post-70654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-mygaming-survey","tag-pc-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70654","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70752,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70654\/revisions\/70752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}