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UK’s video games industry earned 3.864 billion GBP (4.9 billion US) in 2018, and according to data supplied by GfK (physical retail), IHS Markit (digital revenue), and GSD (download figures), digital sales accounted for over 3 billion GBP, which is 80 percent of the market. Digital only accounts for around 25 percent of sales when it comes to AAA releases, however: “the best-selling game of the year was FIFA 19 with 2.5 million units sold...1.89 million of those sales came physically.”
It seems a bit negative for the physical market, but these figures do not include hardware. And actually more consoles were sold in 2018 than in 2017. GamesIndustry.biz can reveal over 2.4 million games machines were sold in the UK last year. PS4 was the biggest selling console, with sales flat year-on-year, but Nintendo Switch was the biggest growth area, with Switch console sales up more than 20 per cent.
It seems a bit negative for the physical market, but these figures do not include hardware. And actually more consoles were sold in 2018 than in 2017. GamesIndustry.biz can reveal over 2.4 million games machines were sold in the UK last year. PS4 was the biggest selling console, with sales flat year-on-year, but Nintendo Switch was the biggest growth area, with Switch console sales up more than 20 per cent.
