PC Game Hardware: Market Forecasts

The DFC Intelligence PC Game Hardware Forecast looks at the market for spending on desktop and laptop systems for the purpose of playing video games.  The focus is on premium game rigs and custom do-it-yourself builds where consumers pick the individual components.

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Newly Updated for June 2024

Spending on hardware for PC games has become a major driver of the global PC game industry.  There is a growing base of sophisticated do-it-yourself consumers that carefully buy individual PC components.  As overall PC hardware sales slowed, gamers continue to drive growth for high-end products.

In 2022, the market struggled with GPU inventory, global economic concerns and other disruptions that all combined to impact the business.  With a new generation of graphics cards that emerged in 2023, better supply conditions, and inflation beginning to ease, sales are expected to start to pick up.  DFC Intelligence sees 2024 as the start of a refresh cycle for PC game hardware that will help boost a stagnant game market well into 2025 and beyond.

The regularly updated PC game hardware forecasts include an Excel spreadsheet with 5-year forecasts.

Data is broken out by type of PC which includes:

  • Enthusiast Desktop Game PC: These are consumers manually adding some components themselves whether this is adding a high-end graphics card or building a PC system from scratch
  • Desktop Game PC: These are consumers that buy desktop PCs specifically for playing games as a main purpose
  • Laptop Game PCs: These are consumers that buy laptop PCs specifically for playing games as a main purpose

Five-year forecasts are broken out for the following regions: (note that each region can be purchased as an individual subsegment)

  • North America
  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Latin America
  • Rest of World

NOTE:

  • More granular data is available on request and can include forecasts by individual region, individual component (cases, cooling systems, GPU, CPU, monitors, hard drive etc), type of PC and more
  • This report is included as part of our overall subscription program
  • Purchase of this report can be credited to additional purchases within a six-month period.

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In addition, we have access to a database of former industry insiders with expertise in all aspects of the video game industry.  No matter what the topic DFC can find the appropriate expert.

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If you have a question on the business of video games we will likely know how to get the answer!

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DFC Intelligence has been operating within the video game segment since the 1990s. We have made a name for ourselves as providing forecasts and analysis that support strategic planning and marketing initiatives over that of Marcom functions that like to influence markets by overstating the size, opportunities and potential of a company with assistance from “pay to play” firms. Out forecasts are often in line with what actually happens which provides our clients with a sense to confidence in purchasing from us.

We leverage our in-depth knowledge of the video game industry and the years of experience and industry connections that we have developed. DFC is strictly focused on the video game space and not as a plug in to other research offerings or part of the factory approaches that have appeared over the years with offshore companies employing generalists to pump out reports via web scraping and generic templates.

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Universities and other educational institutions have bought DFC Intelligence research to use for classroom education and specialized research into the video game space.  Contact us to discuss a subscription to our research.

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DFC Intelligence has specialized in tracking individual game sales and usage since the 1990s when we partnered with the NPD Group to provide reports on retail sales of video games. In the early 21st century we pioneered the usage of PC game trackers for monitoring the usage of individual games. This later expanded to track mobile games and game console services like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live/Game Pass. However, as the market for tracking games has become crowded and unreliable, DFC no longer offers off-the-shelf game tracking services. However, we still monitor games down to the individual level and specialize in custom consulting, especially for product planning purposes. We also have access to our game tracking that goes back to 2005 and is available on a custom project basis.

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