“These component shortages are expected to persist into the first half of 2022,” says Gartner, after Microsoft, Nvidia, and TSMC have all warned about industry chip shortages continuing well into 2022.
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These supply issues appear to have impacted laptops more than desktops, with both Gartner and Canalys highlighting stronger desktop PC growth. “The PC industry continues to be hampered by supply and logistical challenges and unfortunately these issues have not seen much improvement in recent months,” says Jitesh Ubrani, research manager for IDC’s mobile and consumer device trackers. IDC and Canalys both point towards pandemic-related supply issues. Microsoft just launched new Surface devices. Both IDC and Gartner report 84.1 million shipments of PCs in Q3, while IDC puts the number at 86.7 million. That’s illustrated best by a 17 percent drop in Chromebook shipments, which Gartner has included in its traditional PC shipments for the first time ever this quarter. Gartner says “consumer and educational spending began to shift away from PCs to other priorities,” during the quarter, leading to less demand for PCs. Overall, Gartner and IDC analysis both suggest the worldwide PC market grew in Q3, but at a slower rate than we’ve seen during the pandemic. It’s the first time the US PC market has declined since the pandemic began causing lots of people to rush out and buy new PCs over the past 18 months. Banter.The US PC market has declined during the recent quarter, due to pandemic-related supply issues. In the press release, distributed at midnight on April 1, Hulst concluded: “Lol. Meanwhile Pete ‘SonyPonyBigDick’ Harvey was able to take out his dummy and put down his rattle long enough to say: “Waaaaahhhhh.” I have built my identity on my purchasing choices and so must insist they be validated at all costs.”Ĭan’t wait? Here are some PC games like The Last of Us Never mind that growing their audience is an obviously sensible thing for developers to do – I only defend market principles like competition when it means I get to play with a toy and other people don’t. “It doesn’t matter that meaningful competition on their intrinsic qualities has been declining for ages and basically ceased with this generation or that we’re all playing on repackaged PCs now anyway. Masochist? Here’s every PCGamesN April Fools story ever Lol.”ĭavid ‘PS4TheWin’ Stewart, who owns every PlayStation console including a cardboard PS5 he made himself and just likes to stare at sometimes, tweeted: “Like it or not, exclusives have been a selling point for consoles ever since my ancestors sacrificed our young to the fiery Circle button in the sky.
I call on my colleague at Xbox in turn: Mr Spencer, help me tear down this wall. It’s time for gaming to tear down its own Iron Curtain, for us all to join those handsome PC gamers in the promised land of endless backwards compatibility rather than to jealousy hoard our special toys like greedy corporate Smaugs, and we at Sony will not stand in the way.
As the underlying hardware gets more similar and easier to develop for, the dream of all gamers united in the same ecosystem is now achievable. “There may have been understandable technical reasons for this in the past but it’s 2020, not 1990. (Obviously PlayStation is Samsung – the one with the good content – in this analogy.) In no other medium does this happen – it’s not like you can only listen to Rammstein on a Samsung phone and Bieber on an Apple phone, and yet bizarrely, that’s how it is in our industry.
Hermen Hulst, boss of PlayStation Worldwide Studios since Shaun Layden’s departure last year, says in a press release that: “The time has come to end console exclusivity. The Last of Us 2, one of Sony’s most anticipated exclusives, will come to PC on its release at the end of next month, it’s been announced.