Wednesday, August 7th 2013
Global PC Gaming Hardware Sales Shrug off PC Market Decline: JPR
In a challenged PC market one user group is standing firm against the winds of change blowing many casual computer users to the "good enough" mindset behind sales of tablets and cloud computing devices-PC gamers. PC gamers continue to buy and build with a fervency that could be compared to motorcycle, 4X4, and sports car enthusiasts, always looking for more speed, power, utility, and handling.
Jon Peddie, President of JPR said, "Not only is gaming becoming an even more important purchasing influence of PC sales due to the offloading of more basic functionality to smart devices, but we are forecasting growth in the most expensive discrete graphics products. We are also impressed with the embedded graphics offerings this generation and going forward."
Ted Pollak, Senior Gaming Analyst at JPR said, "The effect that key titles have on hardware sales is phenomenal. Enthusiast PC Gamers embrace content creation and modding, so when titles like Bohemia Interactive's ARMA 3 are in the pipeline, we start to see anticipatory hardware sales. In fact, we are estimating over $800 million of PC builds influenced primarily by this title. A major component of this situation is that many games are placing increasing demands on the CPU. The result is that swapping out the graphics add-in board is not enough this time around and gamers are building (and ordering) overclocked PC's from the ground up."
JPR believes that PC's have an advantage for casual gaming as X86 tablets expand the market, and new powerful CPUs with built-in graphics have opened the door to the living room. On the high end of the spectrum nothing can surpass PCs at this point in time because they can run ultra high resolution graphics better than any other platform. Because consoles have display restrictions and forgiving couch based control input, they just can't compete with the PC's precision and power.
Pricing and Availability
The Worldwide PC Gaming Hardware Market report series by Jon Peddie Research which covers 33 countries, notebooks, desktops, DIY, and accessories, comes in three versions: Enthusiast, Performance, and Mainstream, with each version selling for $7,500 and the set of three for $15,000. In addition, with the set is a summary report of the Total PC Gaming Hardware Market worldwide.
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Jon Peddie, President of JPR said, "Not only is gaming becoming an even more important purchasing influence of PC sales due to the offloading of more basic functionality to smart devices, but we are forecasting growth in the most expensive discrete graphics products. We are also impressed with the embedded graphics offerings this generation and going forward."
JPR believes that PC's have an advantage for casual gaming as X86 tablets expand the market, and new powerful CPUs with built-in graphics have opened the door to the living room. On the high end of the spectrum nothing can surpass PCs at this point in time because they can run ultra high resolution graphics better than any other platform. Because consoles have display restrictions and forgiving couch based control input, they just can't compete with the PC's precision and power.
Pricing and Availability
The Worldwide PC Gaming Hardware Market report series by Jon Peddie Research which covers 33 countries, notebooks, desktops, DIY, and accessories, comes in three versions: Enthusiast, Performance, and Mainstream, with each version selling for $7,500 and the set of three for $15,000. In addition, with the set is a summary report of the Total PC Gaming Hardware Market worldwide.
24 Comments on Global PC Gaming Hardware Sales Shrug off PC Market Decline: JPR
The whole premise of this article is that despite that trend, sales of PARTS, purchased by gamers and enthusiasts, are through the roof, with big profits in that arena because of high demand.
At least until computers become fast enough to render A0 CAD images in under the 1 minute mark... :banghead:
Although, in this case, i do agree that the PC market is not as close to dying as some people think it is.
They now make CPUs with OC limited to a few models, and those few inexplicable made to run extremely hot.
I guess GPUs are the focus now. I have little reason not to stick with my 2500K and look for improvement in this direction.
Granted it may look like that to us, but I think we may be wrong there.
INTEL is actually a huge proponent of overclocking and if anything they are trying to encourage overclocking, even putting money and huge resources into it.
In fact a lot in Haswell was designed specifically to allow even more aggressive overclocking. (New clock gen DB1200 as found on the SNB-E), more bclk ratios, increased CPU multiplier (80X), improved IMC, ring bus ratio adjustments (ring bus isn't new but was previously not adjustable), XTU software. Overclocking competitions etc.
There's so much that INTEL does to promote overclocking and to make the platforms even more overclocking friendly it's just ridiculous for us to say they want to wean us off building our PC's and overclocking.
Ivy-Bridge-E even has a low end K SKU that costs less than a 4770K and actually runs cooler (as a result of the thermal interface).
Didn't say Intel had stopped supporting overclocking, but the trend is heading that way.
There's no trend that suggests what you're saying. If there's any trend, its to the exact opposite of your assertions.
* OC workshop at IDF Beijing 2013
* another OC show at IDF this year in SF, two actually that INTEL is involved in.
* INTEL will also be officially involved at MSI's MOA 2013, along with having been a main promoter to the CORSAR/INTEL CO event earlier this year.
* IB-E will get another K SKU CPU that costs less than a 4770K meaning there will be 3 unlocked CPU's in total this generation as opposed to two in the previous generation, at launch.
* Haswell K SKU CPUs have more OC options than any others before.
* INTEL has released and is continuously working HWBOT on it's Xtreme Tweaking Utility, which is a vendor agnostic utility for overclocking and for use as a benchmark.
Intel has done more for overclocking this year alone than the company has in it's entire history.
Add to which, If you buy motherboards, from any of the other vendors based on those chipsets, you couldn't overclock your CPU anyway. So INTEL has taken away nothing you didn't have to begin with.
Intel is against OC to sell more expensive chips it is why it only allows K series OC now (you could try your luck with every chip before, remember ? ) .You must pay the price if you want to OC now
No money = No OC :laugh:
tbh BF4 will probably be the kick in the ass for me to buy a second card