Adskillige undersøgelser har i løbet af det seneste årti argumenteret for at PC-spillere ville forlade platformen til fordele for lettere alternativer, men hver eneste gang har det vist sig at PC-spillere ikke skal nogen vegne. Dog er der nu dukket en ny undersøgelse, der maler et spændende billede af markedet fremadrettet.
I en undersøgelse udført af Jon Peddie Research (via WCCFTech) forklares det nemlig at op imod 20 millioner PC-spillere vil skifte platform til "TV Gaming Platforms" inden 2022. Ifølge JPR vil dette hovedsageligt være spillere på lidt svagere computere.
"The PC market continues to decline because the innovation that took place in the past providing speed ups and clever new things has all but stopped, plus the product introduction times are stretching out to four years. This is not a panic situation and the GPU market still generates incredible volume. However, there are forces at work that we predict will drive some of this business toward TV displays and associated gaming services," siger Jon Peddie.
Senioranalytiker Ted Pollak følger op:
"We are observing a higher percentage of Low/Mid-Range PC products sold because of the consumer's intent to use with games. This, unfortunately, does not generate more volume but does guide research and design as well as marketing investments for hardware providers and foreshadows the ultimate use model of the PC, a desktop ergonomic gaming/computing environment that embraces user choice and customization. Gaming services used with TV displays, whether local or cloud-based, will absorb PC defectors and likely flourish with new entrants. In the next five years, we will see potential customers with access to TV gaming swell by hundreds of millions."