I think that kind of market for people that want really cheap hardware is taken up now by:
Sales of used laptops, and consoles
there may indeed be a market for the computer that is cheap and can game, but I think companies don't want to lower that bar because of greed, and raising it back up would be much harder if cheap gaming laptops caught on.
squirtle2 :
USAFRet :
it seems to make sense for a cheap gaming portable doesn't it?
If it made financial sense, then they would sell something like that.
lower demanding games typically require more GPU power than CPU right? so if they cut some features and kept only essentials like wifi, USB, minimal CPU power and 200-250GB with maybe 2-3GB DDR3 it would allow some squish for graphics. there has to be a market for lower-end gaming and people that don't want to spend $400-500 just to play LoL or Combat Arms on the go... Even if it's not a huge there must be some market for it...