Jon Peddie Research (JPR) announced amazing growth for the estimated worldwide PC gaming hardware shipments and regional market share out to 2012. In particular, JPR predicts the enthusiast segment to have a compound annual growth rate of 9 percent; the performance segment, 19 percent; and the mainstream segment, 21 percent. Gaming PCs touch all segments of the market, with the most expensive at the high end, known as the enthusiast segment, where the utilization for gaming is highest, down to the mainstream, where the purchase motivation for gaming is about 6 percent. The total market value for PC gaming hardware in 2008 was just over $20 billion, and that should grow to more than $34 billion by 2012-and those systems should pull in an additional $6 billion in software and services sales.
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