Video games are on the rise thanks in part to stay-at-home procedures during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. PC gaming is up, with Etailers reporting "frequent recent stocks outs of NVDA's most popular Turing cards."According to analysts at BofA Securities, only "8% of PC gamers own a GPU on par with performance of upcoming Sony/Microsoft game consoles, which will become the new bar for mainstream performance."The approaching releases of Sony Interactive Entertainment's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox Series X could ignite a "major upgrade cycle" for PC gaming-based companies like Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD).See Also: What Sony Analysts Like About The PlayStation 5 PresentationDemand > Supply: Demand will inevitably grow as mainstream consoles begin releasing hardware updates. BofA analysts believe "Turing adoption could be increasing as a result of the rising popularity of gaming as many are confined to their homes."Many places like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are seeing Nvidia products such as the GTX 1650 Turing card sell out."In our estimate, just 8.4% of NVDA steam users are using graphics cards with specs on par with the forthcoming Xbox Series X and PS5 game consoles which should become the baseline for AAA PC game performance/development upon their launch in the 2H of this year," analyst Vivek Arya wrote in a note."We define this threshold as equal to or above NVDA's RTX 2060 Super Turing card. This implies 90%+ of the installed base could become strongly motivated to upgrade to higher ASP current-gen Turing products, and potentially next-gen 7nm Ampere products, once new game consoles launch later this year."Latest Ratings for AMD DateFirmActionFromTo Jun 2020Morgan StanleyMaintainsEqual-Weight Apr 2020Argus ResearchMaintainsBuy Apr 2020CFRAMaintainsBuy View More Analyst Ratings for AMD View the Latest Analyst RatingsSee more from Benzinga * Sony Analyst Expects 'Strong Software' Announcements At PlayStation 5 Event * 'Modern Warfare' And 'Warzone' Loading Screens Replaced With Black Lives Matter Message * Video Game Companies Announce Delays, Pledge Support Of Protests(C) 2020 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
