Jon Peddie: Computer graphics hardware will dip to $124.5 billion in 2018

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 31, 2018
Updated June 12, 2025
4 min

Video games have become a $137.9 billion market in 2018. And computer graphics is expected to hit $124.5 billion this year, according to market researcher Jon Peddie Research.

But while games drive demand for better computer graphics, it’s interesting to see that the two markets don’t move together in lockstep. While games are expected grow 13 percent in 2018, according to market researcher Newzoo, Jon Peddie Research estimates that the computer graphics market will dip 4.3 percent from $130.2 billion in 2017.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.