A few trends noted by the boffins down at JPR include the shift to notebook gaming and a growing market for do-it-yourselfers, punters whol like fiddling around with their hardware and upgrading their PCs with high-performance gaming graphics boards. PC gaming also appears to be making headway against the console gaming market, with JPR claiming the high price of an HDTV for the console is proving too much of an investment in these uncertain economic times. Also, says Ted Pollak, co-author of the report “"Enthusiast PC gamers often latch onto one or two games that offer multiplayer options and stick to these titles for years”. He adds that hardware is where gamers really spend the big bucks, and notes “retail software figures are not an accurate barometer for the health of the PC gaming industry."

Yeah, PC gamers, unlike console gamers, don't have a 3 second attention span, and are big on quality.