I'm obviously bragging here, but I feel like us Millennials who aren't retards use PCs for way more stuff than other generations do. We're the types of autists who are programming or rendering or we do all kinds of other weird shit people don't even think about on a day to day basis.

Every now and then even as part of my work I try to put myself in the mind of a normie to understand the type of consumer they are:

. They hate complexity, they'll either ditch it and complain or hand it over to a techie if they find it too hard instead of learn it themselves

. They make phone calls/text

. They email

. They browse the internet and look at youtube videos or TikTok all day

. They may MAY occasionally look at a mobile game if they're really bored or are one of those people with a personal addiction problem

I'm pretty sure that's accurate, but when you understand that's the most they do it's easy to see why they're always on their phones and don't even really use a desktop PC. They probably don't even realise the amazing and fun shit you can do with even a standard desktop PC these days because of how powerful they are.

The dedicated normie 'gamers' seem to be primarily console users which would partly explain why the steam deck is so massively popular but the new generation consoles are getting lots of sales still too. Consoles go back to my point about complexity, normies just want to be able to go click, click, install at most and they don't want to have to think about anything else.

If I wanted to make a game for example that I could market to normies, my primary target would probably be steam deck users, since I can't access console publishers really as an indie dev.

I'm obviously bragging here, but I feel like us Millennials who aren't retards use PCs for way more stuff than other generations do. We're the types of autists who are programming or rendering or we do all kinds of other weird shit people don't even think about on a day to day basis.

Every now and then even as part of my work I try to put myself in the mind of a normie to understand the type of consumer they are:

. They hate complexity, they'll either ditch it and complain or hand it over to a techie if they find it too hard instead of learn it themselves

. They make phone calls/text

. They email

. They browse the internet and look at youtube videos or TikTok all day

. They may MAY occasionally look at a mobile game if they're really bored or are one of those people with a personal addiction problem

I'm pretty sure that's accurate, but when you understand that's the most they do it's easy to see why they're always on their phones and don't even really use a desktop PC. They probably don't even realise the amazing and fun shit you can do with even a standard desktop PC these days because of how powerful they are.

The dedicated normie 'gamers' seem to be primarily console users which would partly explain why the steam deck is so massively popular but the new generation consoles are getting lots of sales still too. Consoles go back to my point about complexity, normies just want to be able to go click, click, install at most and they don't want to have to think about anything else.