over 20 billion in PC gaming hardware sales 3rd year

claydough

The Jon Peddie Research group printed their annual report again:

supposedly PC "Hardware" sales for the gaming hardware segment( mainstream, performance and enthusiast ) now is over "double" that of console related "Hardware" sales.

“We continue to see a shift in casual console customers moving to mobile. "

3rd year of growth and projected to remain:


Been following for the past 3 years and every year they have been pointing to the enthusiast segments growth...
If u r to believe their numbers...
this year it seems like the GTX 980ti and Titan crowd represent an obvious majority of market share?
( if not the actual populous majority they certainly seem to be making up for their numbers with their "prestige" spending $$$ )

If nothing else...
some ammunition for the argument for "prestige" PC releases.



http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/pc-gaming-hardware-market-is-strong-and-healthy.html

littleclaude

Nice boast of confidence for devs working on PC development

I had a quick look at NVIDIA's new flagship video card, the GTX 980 Ti in this video review and was pretty surprised at its performance.

Loads of games like the The Witcher and GTA with max settings at 4K and still getting 80 -120 FPS, I am impressed.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3eOa0FxSpg[/ame]

CrazyButcher

the pie chart shows revenue percentage, not volume. Keep eye on steam survey for actual volume percentage in the field.

performance wise likely will be another nice jump next year when the 16nm chips come out

Am playing older games with downsampling (DSR), it's really nice what that does to older games, really shows how important anti-aliasing techniques are and what huge difference they make.

claydough

CrazyButcher wrote: »

performance wise likely will be another nice jump next year when the 16nm chips come out

Am playing older games with downsampling (DSR), it's really nice what that does to older games, really shows how important anti-aliasing techniques are and what huge difference they make.

been reading rumors that pascal was taped out in june...
excited to see what jump in performance that HBM ( unified memory that was supposed to be introduced in Maxwell ) and NVLink might bring to the state of the art in addition to smaller chips.