Conina said:
According to the video (21:20) five million gaming laptops were sold last year in China, so probably more than 10 million gaming laptops worldwide, and it is a growing market. That doesn't sound very niche to me. Jon Peddie Research also sees gaming PC revenue constantly growing: https://www.jonpeddie.com/press-releases/the-overall-cg-market-grows-to-150-billion-by-2022
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I agree with the growth part. And it's great to see overall gaming market growing. But according to first found info on internet overall laptop sales are around 170 million which makes gaming laptops with it's 5-10m sales still look pretty niche. As for attached graph with total computer graphics market ($B) - it's pretty bad graph which doesn't really show anything. If we use Nvidia GPUs as an example, in 2014 the top of the line model was GTX980 which launched at $549 MSRP. In 2018 it was RTX 2080 Ti with $1199 MSRP. It's pretty clear why the revenue from GPU sales increased in that time frame. Still, my inital point was that it's great to see such powerful hardware in gaming laptops but what's the point with comparing it to next gen consoles if they don't really compete with each other. It's not like someone who wanted to buy a console to play on a TV would suddenly change his mind and go with a gaming laptop instead just because it is more powerful.
