I feel like I see a fair amount of gaming laptops in the US but a majority of people seem to still game on desktop. I guess what I am looking for is a ratio of one versus the other otherwise a country like China might dominate on numbers alone.
When looking for searching online for this I was mostly coming across pros and cons lists. This isn’t what I am after.
Japan? I heard the Xbox didn’t do well the because it’s physically larger. Space can be at a premium in certain places.
This is definitely true.
Revenue per sector is around 7.4 Billion for Laptops and around 1.6 Billion for Desktops in 2024
https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/computing/laptops/japan
https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/consumer-electronics/computing/desktop-pcs/japan
Thank you for responding. This is the kind of information I was after.
How do you find the used market in Brazil?
Is there a market for buying traditional office PCs and adding a graphics card like there is here in the US?
I’m not sure I follow this, desktops are generally cheaper. And if a part is bad you can replace just that part, you have better cooling so things should last longer, and you can buy and sell parts. So both short and long term it should be cheaper.
I think op’s argument is that there is a chance of fucking up building a desktop and having wasted money. Just buying a laptop is a safe route, even if its not necessarily the cheapest.
if you have to pay 20x the minimum wage for a computer,
Hourly? Daily?
In America that would be: 150 or 1,200
But that’s gross, I don’t know how different taxes are.
But I thought prices were high due to tarrifs? Surely some basic parts could be bought without tarrifs. Especially just the savings of being able to hook up to any TV as a monitor.
It makes it easier to upgrade slowly overtime to, which helps with the tariffs.
I’m in the US and I have a professional career. I’ve had many jobs where I’d travel around the US for short trips, or just have to work in the mountains for weeks on end, followed by trips back home via. plane or by car.
Carting a desktop and monitor around is impractical, and asking for trouble, and certainly wouldn’t fit in the carry-on luggage shelf or under an airplane seat. Additionally, gaming laptops generally have way nicer screens for watching Netflix or YouTube or whatever. I have a 17 inch Omen with a 1070 from like six+ years ago and it’s spent most of its life just being a way to use Excel, watch my favorite shows, and more recently, finally do some gaming.
Now that I’m more settled at home, I’m probably just going to buy a new gaming laptop because they’re so much more flexible than a desktop, and who cares about the most modern, graphically intense games nowadays. There are a few exceptions, but I could stay occupied forever playing games from five years ago, or whatever interesting indie release is coming out tomorrow.
Lots of people don’t have the luxury of buying a laptop and a desktop, so they buy the best laptop they can afford to and hope it works real well.
What do you mean still game on desktop??
Right??
I only game on laptop because I can’t justify spending the money on a homebuilt rig at the moment.
I meant that in the way of mobile gaming become more feasible and widespread. I’d say gaming on desktop is the traditional experience wouldn’t you?
I meant that in the way of mobile gaming become more feasible and widespread.
Oh, I see.
I’d say gaming on desktop is the traditional experience wouldn’t you?
Yes, I agree. I am getting the impression you are sensing/expecting a shift away from desktops due to the widespread mobile gaming you mentioned. Maybe I am too old fashioned and conservative in that sense but for me gaming should ideally be done on a desktop. Furthermore, I believe that gaming is best experienced and most desirable on a desktop.
