Sure but like... anyone in the PC gaming community would confirm. I used to read PC Gamer magazine a lot when I was younger, watch constant PC gaming setup videos, all of them included mice and keyboards. Almost none of them included controllers. I think there's a bias to the data used in your claim. My claim is not anecdotal based on just my own personal experience. It's based on my experience and about any content you can find about PC gaming out there.
I'm a PC gamer, have 8 controllers and have done none of the things you listed, except learning how to build a PC. I'm not saying it can't be like you described, but observation from your point of view (your life) is not a valid statistic.
Steam stats covers a lot of pc gamers, so we can and should be relying on that. 130M pc gamers is more than we can ever observe in life, and at least 48M of them have controllers
Yeah 48M is not the majority of 130M. All I was saying is there's NO WAY it's the majority. And having a controller and using it as your main input source are two different things. Plenty of PC gamers have controllers that they only use for games where they absolutely have to. Claiming that most steam users are using controllers is inaccurate. Extrapolating that out to saying most PC gamers are using controllers is even sillier because anyone who's using other platforms for gaming on pc that aren't steam, which haven't put a lot of effort into pushing controllers like steam has, are even less likely to use controllers.
As I reported, I could have misremembered, which I did (I remember valve did some research on it). We were discussing if it was reasonable to make split screen games and it was brought up multi keyboard input, I reported controller should be used, hence the stat.
Steam just proved that at least 48M people have controllers on PC, that is a lot of controllers!
As for non platform users, we literally have no information on them and no way to gather such information, so for the purpose of this discussion, they don't exist. Being an edgecase cuts both ways (yes, steam is that big)
I'm not sure if you read anything between the lines, I remember it was 50% of steam player have a controller, I remember wrong and it's 33%, that's about all I have to say on the stats.
I would not recommend using a keyboard for split screen gameplay, we have a better alternative, especially with the loss of mouse.
From my personal perspective, the keyboard is always a poorly optimized gaming peripherals, it's the mouse that makes a difference. The keyboard is useful when jumping into chat, but that's about it.
For a while there were those poor quality gaming boards, made more sense than a keyboard and had an analog stick included, these disappeared from the market sadly, but made more sense
