PC gaming hardware market worth $21.5 billion

Happily dying since 1994

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The report predicts that the PC gaming market will grow to to more than $23 billion by 2017, driven by the availability of increasingly powerful hardware that allows PCs to do things that consoles cannot. JPR President Jon Peddie noted that 4K gaming is already a reality for "highest-end" systems and said that even mass-market machines can now push 2560x1440 resolution, well beyond the 1080p resolution (1920x1080) offered by the latest consoles.

May it RIP.

Steam machines are going to be a huge success

#lol

Just another feather in companies like Alienwares cap. When will people get it through their dense skulls that a "Steambox" is nothing more than a pre-built machine that comes with the Steam OS instead of Windows....

The only people I hear still bring up that whole pc gaming is dying thing are pc gamers.

LMAO!! No. Didn't you read the article in the link. The 21 billion is from PC gamers building their own rigs. They aren't thinking about SteamBox crap. I'm still trying to figure out how they seperated PC games from regular PC users who building their own PC's.

21.5B = 21 500 000 000 dollar market annually for pc gaming hardware at the moment

the same consumer buying power as 53 750 000 $399 console's per year.

Strange this quote didn't make the cut,

"not because the demand for home computers is growing—it's not—but because dedicated PC gamers are pouring more and more money into their rigs."

Because that has nothing to do w/ gaming

PC's have nothing to do with gaming? Good to know.

Fairly sure it Means that although the PC market is declining due to tablets and such, the PC gaming segment is growing, since the average gamer needs better hardware then that cheap prebuilt box you can buy in a mall.

Or, even more likely, it can mean that the market isn't growing in customers, the customers are just spending more.

Of course. The PC market as a whole has been shrinking for quite some time but the PC gaming market has grown substantially.

Also, INB4 market doesn't matter when you can't play UC4.

Oh yeah? Well the Sony hardware market is worth 70 bajillion million dollars! Just ask Naughty Gods! Desmond! Pixels!

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PC gaming hardware worth $21.5bn - twice that of console market

21.5 BILLION PC >>> 10 BILLION (PS4,PS3, VITA, 3DS,DS, WII U, XBOX 360, XBOX ONE)

OUCH

@FreedomFreeLife: 2 consoles that make up the bulk of those sales have managed to match the world wide total of pc gaming in a mere 8 months. Just goes to show how strong console gaming is . Especially when some of those rigs cost 5x more then a single console.

I guess I fall in the upgrade category. I spent $320 for a 4gb GTX 770 and $271 for an FX8350 and its motherboard. The rest, including the OS are carryovers from my 2009 PC.

So it takes 2 consoles to barely touch PC?

You should work for Fox News. Dat' spin.

i paid 800$ for my beast pc which is the equivalent to two ps4s or fives x1s

I spent $250 for my cpu and got a nice deal on my mobo. I only paid $100. Though it was going for $160 at the time.

Well of course it's worth that much since you have to upgrade your PC every six months lolololo

It'll be fun watching consolites bickering over 1080p when a lot of PC gamers will move to 1440p or higher resolutions this gen.

I need to remember to quote that next time someone says something stupid like: "PC has nothing but indies/games that no one cares about"

What are you talking. You need to upgrade from game to game, well except for every game, like when I run DA:O on my grannies Z1.

Pretty exciting. But anyone trying to claim sales over the current gen of consoles is being a bit silly.

We're all in the upgrade category.

At the very least the PCgaming market is growing, the number of people who spend big bucks on upgrades is. They might just be casual pc users expading their horizons, but I think it's likely some of them are also console users doing the same thing.

Jeez dude $320? a 770 around here costs more than 500 euros...

PC gaming is dead. Everyone knows that.

A 4gb GTX 770 is normally US$400 at newegg.com. But, I found out that newegg.com periodically lowers the price unannounced. You have to catch them during such times. I caught mine (MSI 4gb GTX 770) during Memorial Day. The following day, its price went back up to $360 then $380 then $390, and finally $400.

Right now, a Gigabyte R9 290 is $370. I don't know how long that will last. I'd stick with my GTX 770 though because of the cooling constraints of my microATX minitower case.

True. But, console gamers would rather wish we were all newbies so we have to pay for a full PC rather than parts.

500? Damm that's expensive. Here, GTX 770's cost about 300 euros, with a 4GB going up to 360.

Is there a big noticeable difference between 1080P and 1440P?

Yes. However it also taxes your hardware more.

If anything I would jump straight to 4K if I have the hardware and once screens start becoming affordable :P

@gameofthering There is a noticale difference between all these resolutions:

720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p

I thought there would be a load of cows in here talking about 'bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu'.

What?

I would get a good quailty 1440p panel now. 4K is only really good for gaming and/or video editing. Windows has a horrible time dealing with DPI on those massive 4K displays.

Steam machines wont , PC gaming is going strong though and thats what matters most.

@Motokid6 said:

I'll be making the switch to 1440p once ASUS releases that new gsync monitor. Cant wait.

This is the one. The PG278Q. 1440p, 144hz, gsync. Beautiful.

Hm.. ps: When uploading a pic does small, medium, large dictate the pictures size or its resolution?

Thats like £700. **** that.

Its not the right time to go 4K. 2-3 years from now it will

Agreed. But everyone has to make that up for themselves of course :)

I currently have a 2560x1080 display and I'm very happy with it. But I'm talking down the line, 2-3 years from now, when I have hardware that can handle it flawlessly and the prices for screens went down, I'll look into getting a 4K monitor.

@clyde46 said:

@Motokid6 said:

I'll be making the switch to 1440p once ASUS releases that new gsync monitor. Cant wait.

This is the one. The PG278Q. 1440p, 144hz, gsync. Beautiful.

Hm.. ps: When uploading a pic does small, medium, large dictate the pictures size or its resolution?

Thats like £700. **** that.

Yeah... I was waiting for them to come out so I can see one in person and in all honesty. I would much rather get a 34" 21:9 3440x1440 display over this.

I played around with one at the Overclockers store. G-Sync is not as revolutionary as people built it up to be.

Image quality + Aspect ratio > G-Sync + TN

That's a personal preference of course.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-070-AS

£700, not $700.

My only question is. "How do they know all these rigs are being buiilt for gaming?" You can build the same kind of rig for creating films, architecture, animation, etc... How did they know who was doing what with all the hardware?

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Right and that's why Sony had to sell 2 HQ buildings and dump their PC/Laptop division just to save enough money to launch the PS4. lol!! Several Naughty Dog employees jumped ship as well.

that free 2 play money is nothing to brag about. PC gaming is basically all about hand me down ports from consoles anyway. Stay mad herms....

I know you tend to make moronic posts, but it's in the title. -hardware-