Tired Translation
As the digital sales have risen so has the trend of retail sales gone down since 2008.
If you do isolate the downwards trend of retail games 2014-2015 to the new generation of consoles Wii U, Playstation 4 and Xbox One, the growth has been 100% year on year.
Neither PC, Mobile or Smart TVs have been able to challenge the consoles central place in the living room. Besides gaming many use their console as the first hand choice for Netflix and other popular services.
But even with the new console generations healthy injection of physical sales we need digital sales numbers to make a fair assessment of the revenue for video games.
Numbers are in millions of Swedish Krona, SEK for short.
As of now its
9.36 SEK to the Euro
8.36 SEK to the USD
12.21 SEK to the GBP
Total sales 2013 to 2015
Digital Sales and growth.
Digital market share per segment.
PC 56%(MMO F2P 23%, MMO P2P 4%, Digital sales on PC 19%, 10% social)
Console 11%
Mobile 33%
for more visit http://www.dataspelsbranschen.se/statistik.aspx
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So while the Wii U and XBox One is kinda slumping here it's kinda nice to see that 1% growth in retail but even better to see the growth in digital sales for consoles.
So all that doom I see from time to time can greatly be attributed to people buying more digital and/or the fact that less retail games are made and instead we see a rise in digital only games.