PC Gaming Dying? Enthusiast hardware is a $9.5 billion market

jmke · 24th March 2010, 16:01

Top-of-the-line gaming PC components are a big business, according to a new report by Jon Peddie Research. The market analysis firm says that, out of all the money spent on "gaming motivated PC hardware" in 2009, a whopping 46% of it went toward so-called enthusiast parts. In this case, that term refers to "boutique PCs, high-end processors and graphics cards, SSD's, specialized gaming mice, keyboards, speakers, monitors, etc."

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18665

jmke · 24th March 2010, 16:02

I'd say, bring on Crysis 3.0 with ubersweet graphics which requires next generation VGA to run at 1600x1200 above 30fps

(and use steam for distribution)

jmke · 24th March 2010, 16:04

Quote:

Why the market share shrink? As JPR analyst Ted Pollak points out in the report, hardware requirements for PC games are stagnating.

thanks to all the console ports. Booh!

blackened · 24th March 2010, 17:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmke

I'd say, bring on Crysis 3.0 with ubersweet graphics which requires next generation VGA to run at 1600x1200 above 30fps

(and use steam for distribution)

1600x1200? They still make those?

jmke · 24th March 2010, 18:04

my point is that at 1920x1200 no single GPU could run it fluently

oh and 1600x1200 is way better in ratio than 1920x1200. 4:3 FTW

1920x1440 would be better

24th March 2010, 16:01	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	PC Gaming Dying? Enthusiast hardware is a $9.5 billion market Top-of-the-line gaming PC components are a big business, according to a new report by Jon Peddie Research. The market analysis firm says that, out of all the money spent on "gaming motivated PC hardware" in 2009, a whopping 46% of it went toward so-called enthusiast parts. In this case, that term refers to "boutique PCs, high-end processors and graphics cards, SSD's, specialized gaming mice, keyboards, speakers, monitors, etc." http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18665 __________________

24th March 2010, 16:02	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	I'd say, bring on Crysis 3.0 with ubersweet graphics which requires next generation VGA to run at 1600x1200 above 30fps (and use steam for distribution) __________________

24th March 2010, 18:04	#5
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	my point is that at 1920x1200 no single GPU could run it fluently oh and 1600x1200 is way better in ratio than 1920x1200. 4:3 FTW 1920x1440 would be better __________________

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