It was mostly gamers. As a gamer from that time, the hardware was marketed to gamers, hard. I don't doubt that artists had an impact, but the world had many, many more gamers, than artists and gamers spend money for the best/mostest/etc.
I mainly know this from living through the CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA/3D add-on card/3D era.
Thank you for taking the time to delve into this. While I may not agree with your conclusions, I respect your work, and the effort put in. :)
It was mostly gamers. As a gamer from that time, the hardware was marketed to gamers, hard. I don't doubt that artists had an impact, but the world had many, many more gamers, than artists and gamers spend money for the best/mostest/etc.
I mainly know this from living through the CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA/3D add-on card/3D era.
Thank you for taking the time to delve into this. While I may not agree with your conclusions, I respect your work, and the effort put in. :)