| greenmedic88 said: This is overestimating the size of the gaming PC market. Yes, the overall market is by far the largest, but the number of gaming PCs that are custom built remains a minority share of the overall PC gaming market. It goes without saying that the market for $300 and higher VGA card set ups is equally in the minority. Even when $100 VGA cards can outperform consoles, you're still looking at the smaller desktop PC market, which while larger than the custom built gaming PC market, is still a shrinking market. That said, the PS4 and XBO do seem like they were built, spec-wise, around a 5 year product cycle compared to the 7th gen. This is not to say that either or both won't see continued support and sales well beyond 5 years. |
I wasn't really talking about the >300$ price cards, I meant that as the next renditions (R9 285 for example) comes in, all the cards below it around to get cut down in price. This includes old cards which used to be >100$ coming down to or around 100$. So even if many buy prebuilt (which, honestly, I sort of doubt) the specs in the prebuilts, even the cheapos, will be getting better and better.
That said, I agree that the PS4/XBO seem built for much shorter lifespans. They just didn't start out with the same "oomph" the 7th generation in terms of tech gap. But once the PS5/XBEleven come out, the PS4/XBO will sales will start to fall off but that rate is hard to guess at so it may well march its way, albeit slowly, to 100m.
