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Jon Peddie Research has announced its market forecast for PC gaming hardware, and while the report says consumer spending has slowed a bit in the gaming industry, the PC gaming segment has been especially resistant.
The firm has forecast the total PC hardware market to drop $1.4 billion due to recession-based sales and the lower cost of PCs and components. Despite this, PC gaming systems have suffered the least discounting due to the value consumers place on the system.
JPR says the reason the PC sector has lost less during the economic climate is due to consumers staying home more and spending less on outside entertainment.
“PC Gaming is a very economical form of entertainment, a $50 game can provide hundreds of hours of play, and it’s not uncommon for players to replay a game,” said the report.
“Also, purchases of a PC for gaming can be shared since the machine can be used for watching (and creating) videos, as well as office work and web browsing, something consoles can’t offer.”
PC sales are expected to reach $19 billion this year and outsell gaming consoles by almost $2 billion.
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Hunam said:
PC Gaming. Fuck yeah.
blackdreamhunk said:
you get more time in pc games too. In ression gaming pc’s is the machine to get. Games with mod support,mmo’s,and free games. plus look for a job if you need one.
http://kotaku.com/282734/
this link is a little mis leading it doesn’t include play
times for other pc games like guild wars,daiblo etc
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/05/new-world-newsfeed.html
loki said:
PC games sucks! Sales of PC games sucks!
“PC sales are expected to reach $19 billion this year and outsell gaming consoles by almost $2 billion”
LOL LOL LOL LOL
90% of PC not use for gaming
blackdreamhunk said:
the backbone of the pc industry is pc gaming
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/04/20/how-pc-gaming-helps-shape-the-future-of-computing/
pc gaming hardware is huge and pc gaming has some of the best hardware around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OHcMWEzPnk
http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/pc/articles/35553.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wXx3vMy_AQ
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/nvidia-launches-3d-gaming-and-movie-tech-in-uk-598349
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNr3yGcI_V8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVz2rSO5qIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27wHFwO5Ebo&feature=related
you don’t get this kind of stuff on console no way.
ShiroGamer said:
even if u go on from here till the next morning,blackdreamhunk
if they dont like peces they wont
but i feel just as great being a PC gamer
blackdreamhunk said:
well they can’t say pc gaming is not hot in side of ression
lol pc game devs have trimed down at the must from what i have seen in this ression. Some parts f the pc gaming is hot in a ression.lol
freedoms_stain said:
“90% of PC not use for gaming”
Yeah, but these figures are for game software sales.
Oh shit, did loki fail hard again? I think he did.
Esha said:
As long as the PC has Valve, it’ll be all right. At this rate though, Valve could pretty much make their own bloody console and it would outsell both XBoxes and PS3s for years to come. Why they haven’t done that and why they stick to the PC is a mystery to me, but I’m appreciative for it.
Also: ScoutLOL [Force-A-Nature] Loki
And that’s all I have to say about that.