PC gamers continue to buy and build
TIBURON, USA: 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.
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