Analyst Anshel Sag provides his round up of the gaming announcements from CES 2022.
The HP Omen 27u represents a clear attempt by HP to build a gaming monitor that ticks all the boxes that gamers want without breaking the bank. While I believe the HP Omen 27u does a lot of things exceptionally, I don’t believe it is the perfect gaming monitor quite yet. The 4K resolution, the 144 Hz refresh rate, the IPS panel and the 1ms response time is everything gamers want. It even has 95% DCI-P3 color space and a high-speed USB 3.2 Gen 10 Gbps HUB.
Speaking of GPUs, AMD announced a new RX 6500 XT graphics card for mainstream gamers priced at $199. NVIDIA also announced the RTX 3050, priced in the same segment at $249. While these GPUs may not be the first choice for serious gamers , the chip shortage likely makes any GPU a worthwhile endeavor. The real hope is that these GPUs will be available in quantities that don’t jack the retail prices up way above their MSRP, which has become standard practice the last two years.
In addition to these mainstream GPUs, NVIDIA also teased the RTX 3090 Ti. The company’s upcoming flagship GPU features 24GB of GDDR6 21 Gbps and 40 TFLOPS of shader performance. NVIDIA also claims the new GPU is capable of 320 Tensor TFLOPS, but it is staying pretty tight-lipped about actual game performance or pricing at this time. NVIDIA also announced the fourth generation of MaxQ series of laptops and the new RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti GPUs.
I believe the new PSVR 2 is a move in the right direction and will help stimulate more competition in the VR market, where Meta and its Quest 2 currently dominates. I think the biggest barrier to PSVR 2’s success at this point will be availability. The shortage in PS5 consoles does not bode well, nor does the fact that Sony is still producing PS4s to make up for it.
Disclosure: My firm, Moor Insights & Strategy, like all research and analyst firms, provides or has provided research, analysis, advising, and/or consulting to many high-tech companies in the industry including Samsung, Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, HP Inc., AMD, Intel and others. I do not hold any equity positions with any companies cited in this column.