Sounds great, but what about the shortages and tariffs?
Laptop makers followed up by revealing new models.
Nvidias RTX 3000-series, in particular, is a big upgrade over the prior RTX 2000-series.
Lenovo
CES 2021 brought no good news for desktop PC gamers.
We know these products have been hard to find.
I want to thank you for your patience as we work hard to catch up."
Nvidia
AMD is arguably in an even worse position.
This is bad news for anyone building a desktop PC.
Cloud Gaming Finally Comes to Televisions
Laptops arent the only alternative for PC gamers, however.
LG
These players could also turn towards cloud gaming services like Google Stadia and Nvidias GeForce Now.
LG, meanwhile, announced Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now are coming to LG televisions in 2021.
Bundling the app into a television means cloud gaming will work straight out of the box.
Nvidia
Its a big step up for ease-of-use that arguably makes cloud gaming even more accessible than a game console.
The significance of this announcement is only increased by the availability issues facing PC gamers.
As the price of PC gaming increases, some players will look for more affordable ways to play games.
CES gave players new ways to tackle this problem.
Nvidia announced five new monitors withNvidia Reflex support from Acer, AOC, and Asus.
Reflex also makes it possible for games to display latency metrics if theyre updated to support Nvidias technology.
All five monitors are high-refresh displays with refresh rates of 180Hz and 360Hz.
This is the highest refresh rate available on a monitor, updating the display 360 times every second.
Thats six times faster than a standard 60Hz monitor.
The high-refresh, low latency trend can be found in laptops as well.
Several laptops, including the Razer Blade 15 and Asus ROG Strix G-Series, have a 360Hz display.
New OLED and Mini-LED Monitors Look Stunning
Its not just the refresh rate thats improving.
CES 2021 also brought good news for PC and console gamers who crave stunning visuals.
LG also announced the LG UltraFine 32EP950 4K OLED monitor, which is due to hit stores in 2021.
ViewSonic announced its own eye-catching display, theXG321UG.
That could, if well-implemented, provide OLED-like levels of contrast.
ViewSonic says the XG321UG will arrive this summer, though pricing remains under wraps.
Widescreen monitors received some love, too.
LG and Dell announced new 40-inch 21:9 displays with 5,120 x 2,160 resolution.
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