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As it stands, the PC gaming industry is estimated to be worth a massive $20 billion today, and it is predicted to enlarge to $34 billion by 2012.
While many have claimed that PC gaming is dying, they don’t take into account the sales of gaming-oriented PCs. According to Ted Pollak, one of the two men behind this robust estimation, “Retail software figures are not an accurate barometer for the health of the PC gaming industry. The retail numbers don’t capture the casual and digitally distributed games, either.”
Pollak goes on to state that PC gamers don’t really buy that many games to begin with. “Enthusiast PC gamers often latch onto one or two games that offer multiplayer options and stick to these titles for years. Hardware is where they spend the big bucks.”
And yes, it is noticeable that a good amount of the sales went to complete PCs, but there’s also a large market of you that buy your own parts. Many of the sales come from upgrade pieces such as improved graphics cards and memory. And for this, we at Maximum PC salute you.
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Velcrow
November 21, 2008 at 8:34am
Sir... I accept your salute. It's not easy playing great games on bad ass hardware for hours on end. ;)
FOX72
November 20, 2008 at 6:20pm
“Enthusiast PC gamers often latch onto one or two games that offer multiplayer options and stick to these titles for years".
Exactly! It is the absolute truth. I don't buy too many games, but the ones I do are mainly multiplayer titles that last a long time (like BF2 and BF2142). The people that claim that PC Gaming is dying obviously haven't tried Left 4 Dead, lol. I spend way more on PC parts than I ever will on the games themselves. It's my addiction. Ok, I have to go buy a Core i7 now, bye.
urdead4g
November 20, 2008 at 6:08pm
This is exactly what i've always noticed and used as an argument that PC gaming is nowhere near dying. Thanks MaximumPC for writting this article.
Kev.
PDeath
November 20, 2008 at 5:08pm
w00t, I haven't bought a Triple A Title from a retail store in years. Its all Steam and gifts with hardware purchases for me. I only raid the bargain bin at brick and mortar shops.
