Coronavirus led to record sales of games and consoles Leaked News
A coronavirus pandemic with forced quarantine and the closure of borders and industries is likely to inflict a powerful blow on the economy, and especially the entertainment, travel and other entertainment industries. But developers and publishers of games so far have reasons to rejoice.
According to GamesIndustry.biz , relying on GSD data , 4.3 million copies of games were sold from March 16 to 22. This is a 63% increase over the previous week. And compared with the same period last year, sales grew by 44%.
In fifty countries of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, sales in the “figure” prevail. Even though the exact numbers for digital purchases of fresh hits, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and DOOM Eternal , are unknown , the number of downloads has increased by 52.9% per week.
Particularly impressive were the performance in some countries. In France, in the week since quarantine was introduced, digital sales have grown by 180%, in Spain in two weeks – by 142.8% and 23.3%.
Italy quarantined earlier than anyone else on March 9th. In the first week, digital sales in it grew by 174.9%. Then they began to decline, but still remain a record for the country. In the UK, sales rose 67.4% even before quarantine was announced in the country.
As for sales of disk copies, the data on them is known only for 17 countries. But this count includes sales of Animal Crossing and the new DOOM. And in general, from March 16 to 22, sales increased by 82%, to 1.58 million copies. The most impressive growth was noted in the UK (218.2%) and Australia (278.5%).
Data for other countries looks a little different. In France, disc sales grew by 70.2%, but if you exclude Animal Crossing and DOOM Eternal from among them, you get a decrease of 1.5%. In Spain and Italy, physical sales decreased by almost 50% excluding two major releases and by 5-20% adjusted for.
For the week, sales of consoles increased by 155%. It sold 259 thousand consoles – mainly Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Income from mobile games and the number of players and downloads are also growing.
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