PC gaming: continues to grow and generates twice as many as consoles

Previously we published an article on the sales of graphics cards from Nvidia, AMD and Intel, yielding promising results for companies and especially for the PC Gaming sector.

PC Gaming: Graphics Card Sales Increase

To really have a dimension on what the market for video game consoles and PC Gaming means, JPR published a graph on the money generated by the market for consoles and videogames based on the sale of chips for both markets.

The PC market generates more than double the benefits of consoles, the last data for the third quarter of 2016. As we indicated in the previous article, GPU sales (including integrated and discrete GPUs) increased 146%, this means that With respect to the previous year, 14.96% were sold.

PC vs Consoles

Sales of hardware geared especially to the PC video game market is growing, not because of the new titles that are appearing and that require more and more of a powerful PC, but also because of the arrival of virtual reality and a decrease in the attractiveness of consoles in general, which with the launch of Playstation 4 Pro and the future Microsoft Scorpio, are becoming more and more like a PC.

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As PC Gaming grows, this does not mean that it goes hand in hand with the PC market in general, which fell 5% compared to the same period last year. The explanation could be the growth of the smartphone and tablet market.