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It's a shame this year won't have a Switch 2 and PS5 Pro release really. The growth provided by the availability of the PS5 after stock shortages won't really be replicated this year. With the Pro coming hopefully the base model gets a price cut but who knows. You also have to think Nintendo will hold big games for the Switch 2 now.
Yup, Interesting stats all around.
I was thinking this right before you posted.
2022 had the RTX 4000 launch and Zen 4 launch so it was going to decline this year.
But are the selling well? And for every 5 MSRP 4060s sold is the equivalent of one 4090. Which apparently sold extremely well at launch.
Are they talking all PC hardware? Or just PC gaming hardware? And how to they decide which is which? Whether it has a decent GPU? Is Deck included? What about an i3 laptop? Pretty meaningless perhaps.
UK is very console centric indeed since the mid 90s. Very different before then when home computers ruled the roost.
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good point, i don't even know what it actually could encompass when I think about it more. Because there are so many different things; parts, handhelds, laptops, pre builts, etc.
It's the reality of the market though. This report from Chris Dring on the 2023 UK market in January said the same.
UK PC and console sales grew 2.6% in 2023 | UK Annual Report
38 million video games were sold in the UK during 2023, the latest GSD figures reveal. It's a slight increase of 2.6% o…
This is not the right perspective on layoffs.
The fact that this is happening, in what is supposed to be their second strongest market is alarming.
Nah, no thanks.
The Xbox Series consoles are not driving growth in the UK or European markets though. That's why it's not being mentioned in that statement.
True....which is why I often ask what's the profit margins for selling consoles for each of the 3 platform holders.
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Not surprising though. Hardware prices for PC here are in the fucking stratosphere. I'd expect it to continue to contract for quite a while as yet
I'm not that shocked with how prices on computer parts went. The worst example is GPUs, the 3080 was £650 RRP, meanwhile the 4080 was £1200 RRP, lmao. You can argue some of this was the currency struggling a bit, but that didn't mean that we all got more money. The Uk wages haven't at all kept up with inflation.
Companies must be happy that the consumers are thinking about their margins.
Cultivate this kind of community, and this is what happens when bad news comes out. MS's own projections of hardware are down 40% for Q1, not the sales analyst's fault if that is turning out to be correct.
