[squigz]

> I am guessing you purely stick to the mobile-phone/corpo-laptop crowd then ? Finding PC enthusiasts should not be that difficult. They are legions of them all over the world - not just in the developed nations.

No. I'm a PC enthusiast myself, as are most of those people I know. I run an online (PC) gaming community.

> (Though admittedly most people nowadays just buy online and local hardware markets are shutting down)

Literally what I was saying.

[lenkite]

Then I misunderstood what you were saying. PC community has actually increased over last few years as people have become dissatisfied with the big-2 consoles.

[squigz]

I was questioning the assertion that a vast majority of gamers buy their components from physical stores as opposed to ordering online.

[lenkite]

Yes, this is the sad trend excepting for some markets that circumvent paying tax or the markets in the manufacturing cities.