EMEA gaming desktop and notebook shipments are down by -1.2% Y-o-Y to 1.9 million units, IDC reports-- but the analyst expects full-year 2019 shipments to reach 8.6m, a 1.5% increase, before growing to 11.1m by end 2023 with a CAGR of 6.8%.
IDC classifies gaming PCs as desktops or notebooks carrying a premium- or performance-grade GPU, including midrange and high-end offerings from Nvidia and AMD. The analyst excludes professional-grade GPUs such as the Quadro or Radeon Pro from the gaming PC definition.
W. Europe sees flat gaming PC results in Q2 2019, as shipments are down by a negligible -0.1% Y-o-Y. "Relatively strong" performance in countries including France and Italy offsets ongoing softness in confidence confidence brought about by political uncertainties such as Brexit. That said, gaming PC demand still outperforms the overall consumer market, and should further pick up in H2 2019 as more games make use of demanding technologies such as ray tracing.
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