Worst PC Sales Drop In History

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HiddenConcept said:

famousringo said:

HiddenConcept said:

What about how easy... and cheaper it is to BUILD it. It's like putting legos together man. I never joined the PC Gaming scene until last year. 

People have been building PCs for decades. In fact, the very first PCs had "some assembly required." It hasn't suddenly, just now, dropped the bottom out of the PC market. Even if it were, people aren't building their own laptops, which have been the growth sector of the PC market for quite some time now. 

Those who are talking about how a five year old PC can run just about anything people want to run are closer. PCs have been over serving the needs of most users for a while now. And what happens when a market gets over served...?

Whoa thats a great point. Seriously i have never thought of that. But the point I brung up was that with the increasing normal tech level of a general person is increasing. My mother doesn't even know the difference between Internet Explorer and Chrome. While a ten year old can tell me the difference. Its just an idea. and i dont know if that explanation helped get it across. I just woke up. Do you get what im saying?

I get what you're saying. You're talking about a demographic shift as old, tech-ignorant people are replaced by young, tech-savvy ones who might be more likely to build their own. Demographic shifts are powerful, but slow, only accounting for perhaps a couple percentage points in a year. When you consider that 2/3s of the PC market is laptops, which tend not to be custom built, there's just no way that a demographic shift like that can account for a 13% contraction in a single year. I'd estimate 1% at most.