PC gamers spent 62% more on PC Gaming in 2020 than in 2019
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emperorsfist
I wanted to upgrade from my GTX 1080. Guess how that went...
kapu
Yea replaced almost whole build ... 5600X + R6800 + B550 + Bdie 😀
Kaarme
I hope video card sales from the second half aren't counted in the number. Because they didn't go to gamers, they went to miners.
The Goose
Yep, paypal credit got a bashing, Msi x570 Unify, Msi 3070 gaming xtrio, 32gig Gskill tz 3600 cl15, Corsair Mp600 1tb, 5 x corsair 140mm hd rgb ml fans, added a second screen to my system....32" 2k 75hz, also bought a new Epson Eco printer/scanner, looking back now I actually upgraded twice in 2020.....January and December, If my Ryzen 5800x had been available I probably would have changed that too, only missed by 5 days. also added 3 new button boxes to my sim rig and a leather seat from an amg merc.
As for 2021 only plan on adding another nvme gen4 drive when i can find one at a reasonable price but there is no rush.
Dragam1337
Well... if you had preordered as soon as you could, you probably would have gotten a gpu, at least by now 🙂
Noisiv
$4.5 billion ??? I couldn't wrap my mind around this measly figure.
Miners or no miner, Nvidia's Gaming revenue was $2.3 billion FOR Q3 ALONE.
@Hilbert Hagedoorn
Turns out this is for US alone.
https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/2021/the-npd-group-consumer-spend-on-pc-gaming-hardware-and-accessories-in--us-increased-62-percent-in-2020/
Kaarme
Yeah. I curse myself for wanting to see the reviews of 6700 (XT) before ordering a 3060 Ti. Now I won't have either. My hatred of the crypto currencies makes me so blind to it that it's actually working against me; I can't predict at all how things will develop, even though it should have been clear as day already when 3060 Ti was released.
emperorsfist
I guess like many, I too wanted to read some reviews first.
wavetrex
Motherboard B550
Doubled RAM from 16 to 32 GB
NVMe SSD
USB Microphone (Yeti) + Arm + Anti-vibration support
Mouse MX Master 3
FD 660W Platinum PSU
... well I guess it's not that much, no change in CPU, GPU, displays, other peripherals.
Dragam1337
I figured i could always cancel my order, if the reviews showed the product to be bad - but just going by the specs, it was quite clear, that it was going to be a substantial upgrade over previous gen 🙂
Glottiz
Preordering games is dumb because games are endless "resource".
Preordering hardware is smart, especially in current times.
emperorsfist
Yeah, you're right. I guess it's a lesson for the future. My GTX 1080 is still performing nicely, so I hope it lasts. It's just that if it breaks now, there is no replacement coming...
H83
I´ve spent nothing more, my system is still good enough for what i want.
Of course i´ve also been thinking about some upgrades, like a better case, a SSD NVMe2 or even a Ryzen platform but no worry.
I still have a big backlog of older games to play so the hardware upgrade can wait.
kill007
2020 did have rtx3000/amd 6000 gpu's., there was also the cpu 5xxxx from amd as well. 2019 really didn't have much to buy 😀
Glottiz
Doesn't seem like it was very obvious to you, since you are the one who tried to compare your failed game preorder, to preordering hardware, a very limited commodity constantly increasing in price.
Undying
In this stresfull times what else can you do but staying on your pc playing video games. If only mining was not a thing all this would be even more fun.
fantaskarsef
Well, this article shows little about gamers... since the biggest sales increases were with headsets, keyboards, and monitors. Home office hardware.
Also, games sales numbers doing better with lockdowns... not that much of a surprise 😀
Wake me once they talk about increased sales of actual PC hardware like GPUs... oh wait... they can't even meet the demand of miners (which again gives no indication on what a gamer spends at all, in relation to the op's title).
Legacy-ZA
No, not PC "gamers" you mean MINERS!
Stop skewing damn data, you all know full well these cards can't be had at MSRP for the real gamers, do you think we are all damn millionaires WTF MAN.
anticupidon
Well, for all that matters some enterprise hardware went up, even used of second hand.
Example: an used HP Proliant Microserver gen 8 was priced around 150-200€ last year, basic configuration.
Now, price on eBay is at least 400€ or closer.
Same configuration.
I could go on, the basic idea is that 2020 and 2021 are the most expensive years hardware prices related.
Dragam1337
Yeah, the only gpu that have reasonable availability is ironically the 3090, cause it's not cost effective for miners, so they dont buy it.
