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

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