The gaming accessories market splits neatly into a segment that pays the bills and a segment that gets the press releases. Gamepads and controllers are the first. Chairs are the second. Controllers are projected to hold roughly 32.9% of the accessories market by product share in 2026, the largest single slice. Chairs are forecast to grow faster than anything else in the … [Read more...] about Controllers Carry the Gaming Accessories Market While Chairs Post the Faster Growth
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The Gaming Peripheral Market Is Worth $3.6 Billion or $10 Billion, Depending on the Analyst
Anyone who has tried to build a business case around gaming peripherals has run into the same wall. Ask five research firms what the market is worth in 2026 and you get five answers spread across a range of nearly three to one. Here is the actual spread from published 2026 estimates: Around $3.6 billion in 2025, growing at 5.5% to roughly $5.2 billion by 2032. $5.5 billion … [Read more...] about The Gaming Peripheral Market Is Worth $3.6 Billion or $10 Billion, Depending on the Analyst
The Gaming Hardware Market Is Now Priced by the AI Memory Shortage
For most of the last twenty years, the gaming hardware market was priced by gamers. Console makers set a loss-leading price and earned it back on software attach rates, GPU vendors segmented by performance tier, and component costs drifted downward on a reliable curve. That model has been suspended, and the cause has nothing to do with games. Memory is the reason. What … [Read more...] about The Gaming Hardware Market Is Now Priced by the AI Memory Shortage