German games industry grows by 9% in 2018 YOY, driven by in-game purchases

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konnichiwa said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Keep in mind gaming hardware also includes PC gaming hardware (though not sure what falls under that classification in detail)

According to VGChartz, the Physical Videogame sales in Germany went down by 8%, mostly because the 3DS and PC games lost a lot. But the losses of the 3DS are more than compensated by the meteoric rise Switch game sales and PC should just been moving to digital. Also keep in mind that with the move to digital sales in general the 8% drop would probably translate in flat sales overall. In other words, I believe that VGCharts German 2018 software sales are overtracked with this new data.

MMO fell because WoW can't keep it's playerbase anymore. It's decline is slower in general because the game was growing in China for a while, but outside of it WoW is coming down very fast now.

A bit confused but the 8% decline is for digital and physical software.

Sorry I confused you. I try to be clearer:

Both VGChartz and this chart show an 8% decline. But the decline on VGChartz is just for physical sales and should therefore be balanced out by digital sales. Which means it have resulted into more or less flat numbers overall if we added the probable digital sales to our VGChartz physical sales numbers.

Hence why I think the VGChartz numbers for 2018 are overtracked a bit. I think the digital sales are more or less flat and just the physical sales really dropped in numbers (by well over 10%), leading to the combined 8% drop in the chart above.