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UK games market sees 12.4% boost overall, with the bulk coming from Switch
The UK games market in 2017 was worth £5.11 billion, which is up 12.4 per cent year-on-year. A big portion of this rise came from the Switch, which caused a 29.9 per cent boost in hardware figures year-on-year.
The following comes from GfK’s Dorian Bloch...
“These UK figures reveal a solid performance for the physical software market, boosted by a return to growth in the overall console hardware market for the first time since 2014. With Sony’s PS4 showing four consecutive years of over 1m units sold per year, a strong performance from Microsoft’s sub £200 Xbox One S and premium core gamer Xbox One X, plus the introduction of Nintendo’s Switch enjoying the best start for a Nintendo home console since the mighty Wii back in 2006, it is clear that the console gaming market is now enjoying a renaissance.”