So how about PC part sales? Everyone I know who bought a new desktop this year bought it in parts and assembled it / I helped assemble it.
Yeah I can feel it. I, for one individual, haven't bought THAT many games lately. But some big titles though like BF3, Portal 2..
Funny, just as I bought a new desktop.
Don't quarters just mean the time of year? And yeah, more people are just buying parts instead. It'll rise at Christmas again, honestly I don't think this is anything news worthy.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;33270253]Yeah I can feel it. I, for one individual, haven't bought THAT many games lately. But some big titles though like BF3, Portal 2..[/QUOTE]
Learn to read, this is about computers, not games.
[QUOTE=Death n1;33270380]Don't quarters just mean the time of year? And yeah, more people are just buying parts instead. It'll rise at Christmas again, honestly I don't think this is anything news worthy.[/QUOTE]
Each quarter represents three months of the year, so Q1 is January, February and March and so on, I think.
[QUOTE=Death n1;33270380]Don't quarters just mean the time of year? And yeah, more people are just buying parts instead. It'll rise at Christmas again, honestly I don't think this is anything news worthy.[/QUOTE]
Stuff like this is almost always compared with the last same quarter. So Q3 2010 is compared to Q3 2011.
I'm guessing the taiwan flooding would have bumped up prebuilt prices anyways.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;33271732]I'm guessing the taiwan flooding would have bumped up prebuilt prices anyways.[/QUOTE]
I think you mean Thailand.
10%, do you know how little that is when you think about it.
Well yeah everyone has a computer now why would people buy another
But looking at the quality of most prebuilt computers, comparing it a nice tablet...yeah I can see why.
I mean allot of us here have VERY nice custom built desktops with nice keyboards, multi-button mouses, monitors (your average monitor is a shitty TN, while tablets use luxurious IPS or even [B]OLED[/B] screens), very fast HDD's or SSD's (prebuilds often uses slow as fuck 5400rpm HDD's) it goes on.
We are using very luxurious or high end PC's without bloaty DELL or HP preinstalled shit and we know how to use Windows well, keyboard shortcuts, etc. The fact that a really high end console shaming desktop costs about $600 to build, but a prebuilt equivalent with bloat and horrible keyboard and mouse and monitor would cost $1500+ also kills it for potential gamers who don't know how to build.
To be honest, if I didn't play games, I could easily live with a laptop or my Transformer.
I can see how a casual user doesn't need a desktop.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;33272641]To be honest, if I didn't play games, I could easily live with a laptop or my Transformer.
I can see how a casual user doesn't need a desktop.[/QUOTE]
I'd still want a desktop for the larger screens, mechanical keyboards (mmm :smile:) and extra mouse buttons (pressing the back button is ugh)
[QUOTE=The Baconator;33272720]I'd still want a desktop for the larger screens, mechanical keyboards (mmm :smile:) and extra mouse buttons (pressing the back button is ugh)[/QUOTE]
Laptop keyboards are getting pretty nice on some laptops now, and a mouse is an extra that a laptop or some tablets can have. (though if you have a touchscreen, a mouse is somewhat redundant)
If I was physically working with computers for more than half an hour, I'd want a desktop though.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;33273471]a mouse is an extra that a laptop or some tablets can have.[/QUOTE]
True but no one does that for laptops, they wants to just slap it closed and walk off, not deal with a mouse.
Maybe less people are buying because everybody has a computer now?
Why would I build a new computer when all current games are just bloody console ports so my computer can already run them pretty damn well?
Maybe if the crisis hadn't hit me so hard, I would've able to afford something.
Europe has it's own PC manufactours.
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