>Worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year in Q3 2026 to 62.7 million units, according to preliminary results from IDC Research (IDC), the second consecutive decline and a deeper one than the 3.8% drop in Q2. Shipments also slipped 9.1% sequentially, upending the usual pattern in which Q3 outpaces Q2. Continued supply constraints and the inventory pull-in earlier in the year, as vendors and channels rushed to stock up ahead of memory-driven price hikes, left the quarter with little demand to draw on.Gaming is healing. So this is why all this vibe coded slop is being spammed everywhere. PC gaming is SHIT. Either get exclusives or die off. All this "Mario in a Halo game? garbage isnt going to save PC.
>>749352265Everything is going down in sales, Anon. Even the consoles are down YoY per the latest Circana reports. But PC sales going down is inevitable because it's hit the hardest by price increases.
>>749352265We're likely going into a recession OP
>>749352265
>>749352265>Gaming is healing.by selling overpriced hardware that plays overpriced software that needs a subscription for online, and barely has any games (all financed by Blackrock)
>>749352265Yeah the straight is still closed, the refineries were blown up, and ram is scarce. What did you expect? We're all heading to poverty town.
>>749354142Steam doesn't have a subscription for online, everything else is right tho
I want to rent a cloud console to buy digital licenses
>>749352265>>Worldwide PC shipmentsWhole machine? Components? Shit, I'm out here on Zen 2 still.
>>749354191The Strait is open.
>>749352265>get exclusives
>bought a mini PC last monthI did my part to save the PC shipment industry, did you????
>>749354316it's not
>>749354316And bots don't post on 4chan
>>749354316Trump said it, so it must be true.
>>749354357buying mini PCs is pedo coded, the only reason to have one is to run illegal servers
>>749353950>going intoHaha yeah it didn't start 5 years ago at all
>>749354410Oh it did, I'm just playing the kike numbers game where I pretend thing that is totally happening isn't actually happening because the number is green.
>>749354316Nope. You realize they're not letting ships leave the ports, right? Just because orange man closes it for Iran out at sea doesn't mean it's open. The only ships that leave at all are Iran's own and with a fraction of the oil.
>>749352265Loosh farming yields are at an all-time high. Time to invest in some Torment Nexus infrastructure stocks.
>>749352265PCs aren't consoles you giga nigger, there is no company dictating who is developing for it or not, so hardware sales means fucking nothing.Actually a downturn on the hardware market is probably a good thing, it will filter out all the shit games while the one with good optimization will gain more notoriety.
>>749354819Its a writ large discussion. If PC sales are down, it's assumed this would mostly be home PCs because business can subsidize the pruchsse through various means. Its worse than it looks, consumer wise.
>>749354965Meanwhile >>749354023
>>749354409Pedophobic freakI'll have you know I am using the mini PC for emulation in my living room next to my petite young gf
>>749352265It's not the 90s anymore where you need to buy a brand new pc every 3 months.A covid era pc will play every single game except switch 2 emu
>>749352265And somehow Steam made 20 Billion so far this year
>>749352265wtf are we supposed to buy, everything sucks save for the very rare gem, that gets rarer and rarer.we used to get the occasional good game from western devs even, those simply ceased to exist wholesaleyou can't blame the customer for not buying dogshit
>>749354316You're on a board infested with browns, anon. They all think that the usn lost three dozen carriers last month
>>749355154yeah cuz you dumbfucks buy games you never play
>>749352265yeah yeah console kid can you have one of your daddy corpos make something worth pirating for a change? I haven't felt interested in playing any consoleslop since Unicorn Overlord and even that was only alright. At least the switch emulator ran it perfectly.
I have been a PC gamer since 94, and my entire life I have seen full retarded people who thinks you can only play games on full high-end setups and nothing else...Meanwhile in reality you can play pretty well on sensible low-end machines for almost 20 years now.Hell, integrated graphics have been solid for the last decade as long as you put some effort to tweak games.I hope hardware become even more expensive so it kills all the retarded niggers who infested the PC market with their "gaming" bullshit filled with shitty LEDs to justify something like a 30 dollar mouse being sold for 100.
>>749355415>iran is in control of the strait as a whole>the us has a blockade at the end of the passageWhat does this tell you? Do you think this would magically make Iran let ships go and come from their ports as they please? kek
>>749355154Its funny steam drones think this is impressive meanwhile fucking Xbox makes more than that
>>74935515420 billion in indy games that run on potato laptops?Based.I'm not buying a new system to photorealistically render some nog's greasy skin in full AAA quality.The number in OP is all business tier hardware vendors btw
>>749354996>Whale microtansactions of Apex skins, Marvel skins, and CS2 knives have increasedWow much players, many PCs.
>>749352265>PC gaming is SHIT. Either get exclusives or die off. All this "Mario in a Halo game? garbage isnt going to save PC.tendieniggers are delusional lmao
>>749352265YOU WILL OWN NOTHING
>>749355676Yep, the biggest install base of any platform. Steam keeps growing and reaching new heights every month. Your little console warring schizo mind is falling apart.
>>749355751lol install base. you mean the platform with the biggest number of bots, scammers and hackers. It costs nothing to make 10 steam accounts right now
>>749356153you mean the platform where people actually buy games, as opposed to >>749355686
Why are the vegans such a bunch of pussies?
>>749356784you mean tendies?they sure are vegans considering they get a very limited selection of games that run like shittruly malnourished
>>749356292Steamies don't buy games
>>749356974they don't buy substanceless trooned moviegames, no one on steam has to stoop down to that levelmake an actual game and they'll buy it
>>749352265>Gaming is healingAbsolutely, now that PC gaming is heading back towards being a hobby only for nerdy middle-class white people
>>749357176>The shit people on Steam actually playYou sure showed him. PC master race, amirite
>>749357426No its headed towards only brown thirdies only, old cheap obsolete pcs will still exist
>>749357743>multiplayer games... have highest playercounts!!!do you want a nobel prize for this discovery, faggot?did you forget that sony released a list of their most played games?i'd love to see an update on this, to see how much toddlerslop snoys are going through
>>749358035>we dont play substanceless troon games>get proven wrong >ermmm substanceless troon games have highest player count!!!gave up on your own argument
>>749359101but multiplayer games have substancesnoy moviegames don't, they're just cashgrabs off a popular IP
>>749359268Tell me the substance of bongo cat
>>749353950>>749354191a reminder you voted for this
>>749359375tell me the substance of wolverine
And nothing of value was lost.
>>749359381This is the product of over a decade of mismanagement, maybe even longer However it definitely is being accelerated right now
>>749352265>62.7m in one quarter >a year, maybe a little more dominates every console put together>"b-but they're not gaming PCs!"A shitty work laptop can play more good games well than any console.
>>749355079this, I'm still on my 2017 shitbox and I dont care, I have aaaaaaaaaalll the fucking games from the 80s 90s 2000s and 2010s to play
>>749359481Don't answer a question with a question
>>749355676>he says this, pretending console normies don't just play their favorite GaaS
>>749359789Enjoy GTA6.
>>749356974>it's all slop
>>749359761nigger, you shifted the goalposts to most played games because you don't understand that they're multiplayer gamesin the end steam is the birthplace of indies while consoleniggers at best get them when shit trickles down and no one gives a shit about your moviegame slop
>>749359886What will be the new narrative when the PC port releases a year later?
Yeah no shit, everything is far too expensive due to AI shitting on the hardware market.
>>749359937Bongo cat is multiplayer? So slop is ok to consume cause its multiplayer, your argument of having refined tastes falls apart just by looking at steam charts
>>749352265>PC shipmentslol what
>>749360303my argument is that consoleniggers don't actually play games considering the pathetic tendie toy attach rate which supposedly has exclusivesmeanwhile steam sees more successful games each yearfor that, you have to play games
>goysole shills make his daily cope threadLol lmao
>>749354023This kills the tranny OP
>>749360617>consoleniggers don't actually play games considering the pathetic tendie toy attach rateYou choose Nintendo consoles which were always seen as a secondary console while most normal people use ps5/xbox>meanwhile steam sees more successful games each yearLike lazy cheap indie slop like meecha chameleon
>>749361025>You choose Nintendo consoles which were always seen as a secondary console while most normal people use ps5/xboxbecause they don't post their numbers like steam does you dumb niggerif they wanted to provide the nails by which to hammer their coffin shut i'd gladly do it>Like lazy cheap indie slop like meecha chameleonare you going to pretend as if anything on this list >>749356974 is ambitious now? nigger
Seriously, what triggered the resident PC fags to behave like retards?
>>749356974 the pcmr has taste
>>749361341so which post has ravaged your ass so hard that you have no comeback and had to go with this estrogenated passive aggressive sissy shit?
Aren't PC just le older milenial shit when you see normies and zoomers and alphas spent more time on their phones over a PC?The average normie gets their dopamine from tiktok and youtube and mobile games.So why the fuck they should buy a newer PC?
>>749361885Easy with the projections there, I don't want to know about your deranged fetishes.
>>749352265It's not dying of natural causes. it's being cancelled by governments, because A) We're steadily reaching WW3 in which hard times need to produce strong men, not gamers, and B) They think we're using computers too much and too privately, and they can just decide they want to erode privacy and ownership, and they're doing that.The market isn't plummeting because people stopped buying per se. People stopped buying because the prices are artificially being made to come out of a middle/low class wage of reach, until it's actually so unattainable that the manufacturers have to close up shop and stop even selling computers to consumers anymore.Once the consumer-stop happens, they'll criminalize owning "non-compliant offline devices" so you can't use an exit-plan either. They want people to be dependent on public IT infrastructure only, and trackable always-online provided devices only. They wanna use all those devices to track our behavior, and socially reengineer how we behave through these mechanisms under the pretext of "climate crisis", like punishing someone for not sorting his trash correctly, or banning you from buying red meat more than twice per week in the grocery stores.If you think everything sucks today, just wait 5 more years. Shit is about to reach Brave New World levels of dystopia, and the only thing that can stop it is civil unrest, if it actually overpowers state authorities.
>>749361969They aren't buying consoles either.
>>749363291Why the fuck would you a console when a phone can play games and emulate retro consoles?
>>749352265I used to update my PC every 5 years but now the GPUs cost as much or more than entire build ever did in the last 30 years. When you couple that with pozzed UE5 games that I wouldnt play for free, the prospect of upgrading just isnt attractive. Im going to hold onto my parts until they fail and I run out of RMAs. Ill be one of those guys complaining that their toaster cant run the latest shit like 5 years from now because I dont want to spend the price of a cheap car on a new PC.
Qrd on prices going back down or what are the best values prebuilts
Human civilization is over in general, I recommend suicide it's only going to get worse from here.
>>749362459>n-no uyou entered a thread to downvote people you don't likewhy even make a post that says nothing, consoletroon?
>>749352265>haha AI makes trannies seethe, based grok>wtf why is a desktop $3000 now?Chuds will argue this
>>749363847Prebuilts are a trap now with gimped 5050 cards and RAM you wouldn't put in a washing machine.There will be some deals on loose parts come Christmas to empty shelves but you're still getting robbed.Joy to the world, the 5060 16GB is "only" 600 bucks! Buy now!
>>749363847you build shit yourself9070 + 7600x3d is about the best you can get value wise
>>749354410exactly. crashing in slow-motion
>>749355463fucking THIS
It just sucks. Not only do you have to babysit your computer which will break, guaranteed, you have to always buy digital which is fucking gay
>>749361257>are you going to pretend as if anything on this listBetter than meecha chameleon and bongo cat
>>749364659there we go, the snoy rejects gameplay in favor of watching a movie of a popular ip packaged as a game
>>749356974Sad!
