According to the latest data from Canalys, shipments of desktops and notebooks reached 16.9 million units in the US in the first quarter – an increase of...
As a US resident, watching Trump fuck around with the tariffs meant pc prices were going to skyrocket. During the election I worked OT to save money and was able to buy an upgrade to a gtx4060, (I had a 1060,) and a processor that’s from a chipset made within the past 2 years. Bought my new one in March. Seemed like a no brainer if the prices of things inside the country were going to go up $300-500. The average person in the US can’t afford to upgrade their machines every year when a new card comes out. I make a living wage and I go 5-7 years before I upgrade. I’d bet that the uptick is being caused by financial uncertainty, and the people that have been wanting to upgrade realized that it would be financially better to upgrade ASAP before what was already on the shelves dried up, and getting hit with the tariff by waiting a few months later for the next round of imports. Couple this with AAA makers raising game prices and chopping the full game up into DLC to squeeze more out of us, plenty of people are moving to PC so they can raise the black flag, or play multiplayer games without having to pay a god damned subscription fee to the console makers. I convinced my g/f to buy a PC this past year and she loves it. I went PC after the PS3/Xbox 360 gen of consoles and never looked back. Edit: I also forgot that windows 11 was released, and may people do not have chipsets that will support win11, my old PC was one of them.
As a US resident, watching Trump fuck around with the tariffs meant pc prices were going to skyrocket. During the election I worked OT to save money and was able to buy an upgrade to a gtx4060, (I had a 1060,) and a processor that’s from a chipset made within the past 2 years. Bought my new one in March. Seemed like a no brainer if the prices of things inside the country were going to go up $300-500. The average person in the US can’t afford to upgrade their machines every year when a new card comes out. I make a living wage and I go 5-7 years before I upgrade. I’d bet that the uptick is being caused by financial uncertainty, and the people that have been wanting to upgrade realized that it would be financially better to upgrade ASAP before what was already on the shelves dried up, and getting hit with the tariff by waiting a few months later for the next round of imports. Couple this with AAA makers raising game prices and chopping the full game up into DLC to squeeze more out of us, plenty of people are moving to PC so they can raise the black flag, or play multiplayer games without having to pay a god damned subscription fee to the console makers. I convinced my g/f to buy a PC this past year and she loves it. I went PC after the PS3/Xbox 360 gen of consoles and never looked back. Edit: I also forgot that windows 11 was released, and may people do not have chipsets that will support win11, my old PC was one of them.