According to IDC, global shipments of gaming desktops and notebooks total 7.5 million units in Q1 2019, a -6.2% Y-o-Y decline brought about by inventory issues. In the meantime gaming monitors are up by 48.6% Y-o-Y, thanks to demand for second or external displays.
The quarter sees shipments of 3.5m gaming desktops, a drop of -10.6% Y-o-Y. The analyst attributes the decline to an oversupply of GPUs leading to more upgrades than replacements of desktops, as well as macroeconomic headwinds in large markets such as China. Meanwhile notebooks drop by -2% Y-o-Y as many gamers prefer to wait for the implementation of new GPUs in mobile systems.
The top 5 gaming PC vendors are HP, Lenovo, Dell, Asus and Acer. Together the 5 companies hold 62.9% of the Q1 2019 gaming PC market, up from 58.4% in Q1 2018.
"Despite the recent downturn in the gaming PC market, we anticipate a rebound in the second half of the year as inventory issues clear out and new products hit store shelves," IDC says. "To date, uptake of Nvidia's RTX graphics cards has been relatively slow given the dearth of content. However, that's expected to change in the coming year as many of the AAA titles will support ray tracing, enticing gamers to purchase newer systems."
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