celador on 14 January 2016
GfK’s latest stats reveal significant growth for the new consoles. However, the overall UK physical games market is down by eight per cent, dropping from £2.294bn in 2014 to £2.1bn last year. That number includes all game, console and accessory sales.
Retail reports say that there are now around 5.5m gamers in the UK that own either a PS4 or Xbox One.
Xbox One software unit sales rose 51.4 per cent in 2015 year-on-year (and 38.2 per cent in revenue). PS4 game sales increased by 53.4 per cent (40.2 per cent in revenue).
