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For Struggling PC Market, It's PC Gamers To The Rescue

IDC Insights Research dropped some doom and gloom earlier this year, reporting that Q1 2013 PC shipments were down a drastic 13.9% globally, compared to the same period in 2012. This represented the worst decline in the US since 2006, despite Windows 8 and some inspired hardware to accompany it from the likes of Lenovo, ASUS, and Dell DELL -0.15%. Apparently no one told PC gamers about this decline, as a new report from Jon Peddie Research illustrates.

Now more than ever, we’re seeing a decisive separation of so-called “casual” and enthusiast or “hardcore” PC gamers. JPR president Jon Peddie explains that a growing number of users are migrating to tablets and smartphones as the specs of these devices continue to mature. With that shift, the remaining PC users are going considerably high-end. In fact, Peddie confidently states that his research group is “forecasting growth in the most expensive discrete graphics products.”

 

That makes perfect sense, actually. Classic retreat upmarket.

But the other part 

Continuing, Santos tells me that “on average most of our customers that are high-end gamers spend around $4k or more.” Surely that’s an anomaly, right? Back over to Reeves at Falcon Northwest: “Our ASP [average sale price] this year is $4,100. An interesting data point: we’ve seen a 16% increase in customer spending on the GPU this year over last.”

$4k? Really?

I just bought a new mobo, CPU and an SSD for about 550 €. Even if I had bought a Titan that would be 900 € more, and i would be perfectly capable to play at high or very high for the next years. Why do they need to spend that much? It's ridiculous.