/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>1050
soul

>>2024535
unironically they are. Its going slow tho.
Did you know console software over there is called "コンシューマーソフト" (consoomer software)? "I'm not a professional or something, I just need my smartphone and have my games right here in my after-work box".

But they're waking up. PS3 and PS4 Stores close down soon, PSP and PSVita as well so you're forced to buy the new shiny thing just to be able to access the store. You need to buy yearly passes just for online play. And VTubers show it off, you can just do it on PC, costing you only the game itself. They see how much trouble NePoLaBo had with Stardew on PS4. They see how nobody ever seriously caught a Virus either despite being somewhat popular (nobody remembers Shion shitting up her PC lol). Project Winter and Among Us brought quite some people to PC. I personally know of two japanese people now waiting the extra year for MH Rise for PC to play with me and other friends from overseas who don't own a switch.

It'll take a while, but it seeps in.

>>2024535
You do know that Japan had tons of PC only games even before vtubers, right?

>>2024535
PC gaming has been gaining popularity for a while now, slowbro.
Nip chuubas who are PC gaming is rather proof on how popular the platform is in Japan

>>2025123
So why are Japanese devs still so bad at making or porting games to PC?

>>2025243
That's far from a Japan exclusive problem.

>>2024535
I remember Hal was talking about the PC gaming scene with how most Japs would shop for a PC. At first it was "I need a PC that can run PUBG" that evolved into "I need a PC that can run Apex".

>>2024535
They are helping, but so are other streamers/youtubers. Its not vtubers who started to popularise it.

>>2025123
They had rpgmaker games, VN's and porn, don't try and act like it was anything more than that. AAA Japanese devs didn't even port games to PC until that Dark Souls petition and even then it was to target a Western consumer base they didn't know existed rather than a domestic consumer base

>>2027741
Retard.

>>2025779
From what I've seen of JP advertising, this is pretty much how it goes. This prebuilt PC can play FF14/PSO2/PUBG/Apex at high settings, good deal! With all the PCs on the showroom floor running benchmarks for them to show off to the customers.

>>2025779
Does Apex have much high system requirements than PUBG?

Apparently AMD doesn't care about Japan other than their console GPUs I guess.

>>2024535
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=pc
Japanese gained 0.34% market share in February alone, making it the 10th most popular language on Steam. Another month like February and it'll be the 8th most popular language.
Japanese has been inclining quite steadily although it's only started to take off recently. By the end of 2021 I wouldn't be surprised if it's around German/PT-BR levels.

>>2024535
Real question, why did everybody fell for the RTX meme
I'm over here underclocking my shit to make it run cooler and it still runs everything

>>2028725
>All those Chinks
Thank fuck they're being walled out with Steam China

>>2028767
They probably just get whatever was the latest one at the time they're building. Looking at OP's picture, those who have 8000 series CPU and below always paired with pre-RTX cards (excluding Choco) and vice versa. Probably don't even consider Ray Tracing at all.

>>2029035
I didn't consider that
They could also be getting tips on what to buy all from the same person

>>2024535
>intel

Oy goy, do you like running your cpu running hot as hell and consuming so much energy?

How big are Vtubers and hololive in general? Has there been any publicly available market research for estimating the number of vtuber watchers worldwide, or the revenue of the vtuber industry?

>>2029220
The image is somewhat outdated, I'm fairly certain flare has upgraded from the 1050 and both polka and nene have PCs with Ryzen 5000s.

>>2027741
very good point

>>2024535
Pic outdated. Peko and Mr Koro have absolutely monster PCs.

>>2037498
Korone might but Pekora's is mid range

>>2038858
In what world is 5950X and 3080 "mid range"?

>>2024535
steam and vtubers are biggest helpers to make pc market more popular
>>2029220
temps are irrelevant if you have more fps than ryzens (since their single core perf is still worse) and energy compsumption is much smaller than high end gpus

>>2028815
not if you will be still using vpn

>>2037498
>Mr Koro have absolutely monster PCs.
but doesn't she just play old console games or retro games?

>>2039211
She's also constantly rendering video. A good example of how to fuck things up was for instance Calli's debut, the smoke effect killed her FPS and turned it into a slideshow. She was trying to stream with a shitty laptop and got betrayed by her equipment. If she had a decent card it would've paved over the unoptimized effect and saved her frame rate. For full-time streamers this is their day job, it makes perfect sense to invest in expensive hardware, those rare occasions where it saves your ass without you even knowing it make the cards worth their weight in gold.

>>2039211
she mines crypto

>>2028725
Why Spain so high? Japanese is below polish and fucking turkish, damn...

>>2040416
Spain lumps in most of latin america too. Localization doesn't bother to make adapt to both Spain and Latam spanish

>>2024535
>popularize PC gaming
>in the time when the minimal budget GPU worth giving a shit about costs more than a ps5
lmao
the only thing that will make pc popular in japan is snoy completely shitting itself which it's not trying to do at full steam