Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    It seems like gamers have finally realized that the newest GPUs by NVIDIA and AMD are getting out of reach, as a new survey shows that many of them are skipping upgrades this year.

    Data on GPU shipments and/or POS sales showing a decline would be much more reliable than a survey.

    Surveys can at times suffer from showing what the respondents want to reply as opposed to what they do.

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        27 days ago

        That’s why it’s best to focus on absolute unit shipment numbers/POS.

        If total units increased compared to the previous generation launch, then people are still buying GPUs.

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            27 days ago

            Shipment/POS do not telling you anything about unfulfilled demand or “unrealized supply”.

            It’s just how unit were shipped into the channel and sales at retail respectively.

            These are the best data points that we have to understand demand dynamic.

            Gamers are also a notoriously dramatic demography that often don’t go through on what they say.

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      27 days ago

      It really depends if they hired a professional cognitive psychologist to write the survey for them. I doubt they did…