NPD Group: Consumer Spending on PC Gaming Hardware and Accessories Increased by 25% in 2022

It seems as if the chip shortage hasn't really affected the spending habits of the PC gaming market as the latest NPD Group study has confirmed that the total spending on PC gaming hardware and accessories has increased past 25% in 2021 compared to 2020. Yet, the revenue increment % is not as dramatic as the 2019-2020 increase (62%).

Year-over-year revenue growth in PC gaming hardware and accessory categories was led by desktop computers, notebook computers, and PC microphones, increasing 38%, 29%, and 25%, respectively.

PC microphones, monitors, and notebook computers experienced the highest unit volume growth, increasing 27%, 17%, and 16%, respectively. According to NPD's Hereafter of Engineering forecast, 2022 PC gaming hardware and accompaniment revenue volition meet a four% decline, a event of tremendously high volumes for the previous two years.

Mat Piscatella, an analyst from the NPD Grouping, said the post-obit regarding the results:

PC gaming continues to offer a broad variety of content, across numerous genres, coming from developers effectually the world. It remains the domicile of game innovation while providing players myriad means to engage with the medium. In 2021, the PC platform generated tape consumer spending and engagement, farther proving that the oldest game platform may indeed yet be the industry's all-time.

Speaking of engagement, the digital PC content, which includes cloud and non-console VR content, also saw sales gains, increasing 5% to $7.9 billion. Fourth dimension spent playing PC games was strong equally well. Co-ordinate to NPD's Evolution of Entertainment 2021 study, PC game players averaged vii.7 hours played per week in 2021, up from six.7 hours in 2020.

Of course, this is non surprising if y'all've read our previous reports. Steam kicked the year off with a record number of concurrent users. A concurrent tape was appear at the start of the New year with 28.2M users. Two weeks later, the platform nearly got to the 30M marking on its ain. It's easy to conclude that the PC Gaming platform volition continue to thrive as more games go available for all users.

Speaking of storefronts that have been successful, the Ballsy Games Store has likewise reported that information technology connected to grow in 2021. Monthly agile users peaked at 62 million in Dec (up from 56 million a twelvemonth ago), and overall spending was $840 one thousand thousand, upwardly from $700 million. Unfortunately, the platform still relies on its gratuitous game deals.