Nearly all of UK's 2022 games sales were digital downloads
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UK players spent 2022 buying games from their phone or consoles instead of dealing with traffic and physical lines.
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JANUARY 10, 2023
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million PC and console games were sold in March across Europe, a slight drop of 4% compared with the same period in 2022. That means for the first quarter of the year, 39 million games have been sold, which is a drop of 11% over last year.
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billion in 2022, according to the latest report from Ampere Analysis. Outside of the post-lockdown drop, the UK market also saw a fall in spending towards the end of the 2022. UK spending on video games dropped 1.6% to £5.38 The data firm says it is the first decline for the UK market since 2012.
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billion) from December 27, 2021 to December 25, 2022. That's according to Famitsu's annual report , which revealed that total sales on boxed games and hardware amounted to ¥374.8 billion ($2.9 Read more.
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increase compared to 2022's revised total of £7.49 While overall game sales were up in the UK in 2023, boxed sales have continued their decline and were down 5% to £495 million compared to 2022. Looking at digital sales more precisely, digital console software sales were up 5.6% billion in 2023, a 4.4% to £2.48
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million PC and Console games were sold across Europe in December, according to the latest GSD data. December 2022 was a 'five week month', so if we align the weeks, we can see that sales improved 3.6% compared with the same period in 2022.
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At a glance: 159 million console and PC games were sold across tracked European markets in 2022, a drop of 7.1% over the year before. This is according to the latest GSD data, which tracks physical and digital game sales across Europe.
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However, this is because November 2023 was a 'five week' month compared with the four weeks of November 2022. Europe posted a solid month for video game sales during November, driven by Call of Duty, EA Sports FC 24 and PS5. million video games were sold across tracked European markets, a rise of 20% over the year before.
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million PC and console games were sold across Europe during April, a drop of 5.3% over the same period in 2022. This is based on GSD data, which covers physical game sales from major European markets and digital sales from most major publishers. Full details at the bottom of the article.
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million console and PC games were sold across Europe during the first half of the year, which is marginally up over the same period in 2022. over the same period in 2022. The UK was the biggest European market for game sales, representing 15.3 million games sold, a rise of 5.5% million sales (up 8%).
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AUGUST 21, 2023
million console and PC games were sold in July across Europe, up 34% over the same period in 2022. Digital downloads represented nearly 7.9 million of that (up 60%), while physical was 3.75 million (up 0.2%). This is according to GSD data, which includes digital sales from most AAA games publishers in every European country.
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APRIL 11, 2023
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billion Consoles expected to produce $56.1 increase compared to 2022. At a glance: Market estimated to generate $187.7 billion in 2023, up 2.6% Mobile revenue due to increase 0.8% billion in revenue and drive growth this year The global games market is estimated to generate $187.7 billion in 2023, a 2.6% billion this year, a 0.8%
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