German Gaming Industry 2013 analysis

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Barozi on 05 March 2014

Last years analysis: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=156922

69.5m games have been sold in 2013 (-6%)
Total Revenue: 2.41b € ($3.31b)
-> Hardware Revenue: 0.59b € ($0.81b)
-> Software Revenue: (Games+DLC/subscribtions/accounts): 1.82b € ($2.5b) (-2%)
-> 1.470b € (-2%) of that came from digital and retail games

Consoles: 862m € (+5%) revenue. 23.5m games sold (+2%)
PC: 392m € (-15%) revenue. 23.5m games sold (-5%)
Handhelds: 176m € (-2%) revenue. 6.2m games sold (-9%)
Mobile gaming: 39m € (+4%) revenue. 16.3m games sold (-15%)
DLC, subscriptions and accounts: 348m € (-1%) revenue.
-> DLC: 209m € (-8%) revenue.
-> Subscriptions and accounts: 139m € (+12%) revenue.

Source and tons of charts:
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/die-deutsche-gamesbranche-2013.html
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/datentraeger-und-downloads.html
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/online-und-browser-games.html
http://www.biu-online.de/de/fakten/marktzahlen/virtuelle-zusatzinhalte.html
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Mobile gaming took the biggest hit (considering they had a ~50% increase last year). Then PC.

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DanneSandin on 05 March 2014

Very cool! But it says it's from 2012...? 69.5m games have been sold in 2012 (-6%)

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Neat. Gotta love the BIU :)

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bananaking21 on 05 March 2014

look at that puny mobile percentage. suck it NikkoM!!!

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Barozi on 05 March 2014

DanneSandin said:
Very cool! But it says it's from 2012...? 69.5m games have been sold in 2012 (-6%)

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Somini on 05 March 2014

Nice to see consoles still enjoy the lion share of the game market in Germany. I don't expect the Netherlands, where i live, to be very different.

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Barozi on 05 March 2014

pezus said:
Does it include digital sales?

Yes

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Praise the mobile master race peasants!

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DanneSandin on 05 March 2014

I wish we could get this sort of information from every country! It's kinda weird how PC's sold just as many games as consoles, but didn't make as much money... only half as much. And handhelds seems to be pretty niche :P

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Conina on 05 March 2014

Barozi said:

Mobile gaming took the biggest hit (considering they had a ~50% increase last year).

The shift from iOS to Android? ;)

Retail stays very strong in Germany (revenue):

The same comparison with units (number of games) instead of revenue... since digital games are cheaper than retail games (on average) and mobile games are much cheaper (on average):

DLC-revenue is going down again:

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