57% of PC Gamers Highlight Slow Storage as the Biggest Pain-Point, Unveils A Study By Western Digital.
A recent survey claims that about 57 per cent PC gamers in India have cited slow storage as a key factor for poor game experience. A majority of gamers also highlighted slow game loading (51 per cent) and bandwidth issues (51 per cent) as the main pain points, showed the survey by storage solutions major Western Digital.
While slow storage remains the biggest bottleneck for fast game loading, gamers feel that RAM (52 per cent), Graphics Card (43 per cent), and Processor (41 per cent) also have a role to play in the overall gaming experience. Two in every five gamers have made the unbearable decision of deleting their old titles due to running out of storage, showed the research.
The "Next-Gen Gamers" research found that every three in five gamers store their game libraries within their PCs and every three in 10 gamers store more than 10 titles in their PCs. The study was conducted by CyberMedia Research (CMR) on behalf of Western Digital. It involved 1,558 respondents in the age group of 18-40 years.
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Jaganathan Chelliah, Director - Marketing, India, Western Digital, said, “There is a strong sense of accomplishment amongst gamers as PC gaming allows them to express their creativity and provides an opportunity to learn. As PC gamers graduate from casual gaming to serious gaming, slow storage performance has become one of the key pain-points for them. Gamers need NVMe powered high-performance SSDs to enjoy demanding and immersive 3D games. Our WD_BLACK portfolio is designed to do just that! Our latest WD_BLACK SSD portfolio is purpose-built to allow gamers to meet the increasingly high standards of future games and gaming platforms.”
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