PC Shipments Fall off a Cliff as Some Manufacturers See Year-over-Year Numbers Drop by over Twenty-Five Percent in 2026

[Peter_Brosdahl]

PC manufacturers are feeling the hurt in 2026, with some seeing as much as a thirty percent shipment drop from the previous year while the average decline sits closer to twenty percent. In a shock to no one, neither consumers nor enterprises are lining up in droves to purchase new PCs this year. It’s no […]

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[Grimlakin]

Yep... pc sales dip when price to performance becomes too burdensome.

Thankfully we are hitting a wall in price for a lot of electronics where consumers just nope out rather than buy trash gear that won't work for their use case.

If you want to get into PC gaming today you're going to nope out when you see the prices. And considering how much consoles are you're gonna just pass in general on that stuff.

Want to vitalize the industry. Make a streaming kit that works on an Xbox or PS5, or any of the handheld setups. Make it so people can game and stream and use discord on a portable SOC style device. Make it good enough and around 1 grand USD top price at most. Then folks will start doing it as they see streamers doing it and streaming from it.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Just too many economic and real-world factors stacking on top of each other beyond even the AI craze. It was bound to catch up eventually.

September 2026 was our worst month at work since July 2022, it basically feels like we're back to 4 years ago as far as the average consumer is concerned.

 

[MadMummy76]

Only 25% ? I'd have expected a 75% drop. You'd be crazy to upgrade a PC now unless you're forced by some HW failure. And even in that case I might consider pulling components from my second PC rather than buying anything new.