PC gaming hardware market to shrink further in 2023 before recovering over the next two...

[DragonSlayer101]

In context: The global PC market has been in tumult over the past few years despite newer products, innovative form factors and the release of Windows 11. The PC gaming market has been no exception either, with cumulative sales dropping from a high of $68 billion in 2021 to just $42 billion last year. According to a new report, things will only get worse before getting better.

After the precipitous fall in 2022, the global PC gaming hardware market is expected to recover over the next couple of years, despite persistent recession fears and massive layoffs. That's according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR), which claims the industry will increase its total revenues by up to $5 billion by 2025.

As per the forecast, the PC gaming hardware industry will hit total revenues of $47.1 billion in 2025, up more than 12% from $42.0 billion in 2022. However, things are expected to remain subdued in the short term, as the market is expected to shrink further this year, hitting a low of $37.3 billion, down almost $5 billion from last year.

The research also revealed that once the recovery process begins, the biggest gains will be in the high-end and entry-level segments, while the mid-range will continue to shrink further. While the high-end category is expected to grow 17% from $22.9 billion in 2022 to $26.8 billion in 2025, the entry-level is said to expand from $5 billion to $7.3 billion during the same time.

Meanwhile, the mid-range segment is expected to feel the squeeze from both ends of the market, reducing in size from $14.0 billion to $12.9 billion between 2022 and 2025. In 2023, the mid-range market is expected to hit $11.4 billion in revenues, down $2.6 billion from last year.

According to Dr. Jon Peddie, president of JPR, Intel's entry into the discrete GPU market with its Arc graphics cards, as well as AMD's decision to discount some of its erstwhile-mid-range GPUs are expected to help make the entry-level market more lucrative in the coming years.

According to Ted Pollak, senior game tech analyst at JPR, the improving macroeconomic environment will be instrumental in helping the market to recover in the next couple of years. Another contributing factor to the growth will be the falling prices of high-resolution ultra-wide monitors, which is expected to help popularize them among casual gamers.

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[Srksi]

Ofc it will shrink. People are not still evolved to have three kidneys to they can sell one and buy bloody mid tier graphic card

 

[wiyosaya]

The moral of the story: If you are waiting to make a new build, continue waiting. Prices will fall.

 

[Julnor]

Outside of the internet most people just want good games with smooth frametimes. The graphical gimmicks don't really matter too much, and nobody is going to run a benchmark to check either. Consoles tend to run the popular games better, and often have poor PC ports. Games like Elden Ring, Hogwart's Legacy, TLOU just run better and are usually on console first. Most people also seem to prefer controllers for their gaming.

I mostly just use my PC for keyboard and mouse games, indies, older and modded titles. I don't need new hardware, my older hardware runs fine, and I'm just willing to upgrade as a hobby especially for mid-range. The new GPUs intentionally gimp or refuse to release mid-range GPUs on top of that. Even the new CPUs have expensive motherboards, DRAM and long boot times, and many have bad ethernet controllers. Just misstep and misfire after misfire.

 

[mbrowne5061]

Outside of the internet most people just want good games with smooth frametimes. The graphical gimmicks don't really matter too much, and nobody is going to run a benchmark to check either. Consoles tend to run the popular games better, and often have poor PC ports. Games like Elden Ring, Hogwart's Legacy, TLOU just run better and are usually on console first. Most people also seem to prefer controllers for their gaming.

I mostly just use my PC for keyboard and mouse games, indies, older and modded titles. I don't need new hardware, my older hardware runs fine, and I'm just willing to upgrade as a hobby especially for mid-range. The new GPUs intentionally gimp or refuse to release mid-range GPUs on top of that. Even the new CPUs have expensive motherboards, DRAM and long boot times, and many have bad ethernet controllers. Just misstep and misfire after misfire.

PCs also tend to be better for CPU-bound games, imo. Factory building games, strategy games, etc. The kind of games that begin to murder your CPU as you approach the end-stages of the game.

Kind of ironic, when you think about it and how much people focus on the GPUs over CPUs. But people still chase GPUs, because they'd rather have their gaming all-in-one (or can't afford both a PC and a console). Consoles are great for action/first-person/third-person games, and as acting as media hubs, but PCs are for when you need some heavy lifting (beyond graphics) going on during the game itself.

 

[Moochy]

Outside of the internet most people just want good games with smooth frametimes. The graphical gimmicks don't really matter too much, and nobody is going to run a benchmark to check either. Consoles tend to run the popular games better, and often have poor PC ports. Games like Elden Ring, Hogwart's Legacy, TLOU just run better and are usually on console first. Most people also seem to prefer controllers for their gaming.

I mostly just use my PC for keyboard and mouse games, indies, older and modded titles. I don't need new hardware, my older hardware runs fine, and I'm just willing to upgrade as a hobby especially for mid-range. The new GPUs intentionally gimp or refuse to release mid-range GPUs on top of that. Even the new CPUs have expensive motherboards, DRAM and long boot times, and many have bad ethernet controllers. Just misstep and misfire after misfire.

This is truth and the way it is.

 

[grumblguts]

More like no console sales

 

[poshflamingos]

Consoles tend to run the popular games better, and often have poor PC ports. Games like Elden Ring, Hogwart's Legacy, TLOU just run better and are usually on console first. Most people also seem to prefer controllers for their gaming.

What? The Last of Us did have a particularly bad launch, but consoles absolutely do not run either Elden Ring or Hogwarts Legacy better than PCs. Elden Ring especially, where the consoles drop down to low 40s in certain open world areas due to anemic CPU performance.

Also, you realize you can use controllers on PC, right? I have a Dualshock 4 right here that I used for both Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy on my PC, for example.