{"id":14050,"date":"2018-03-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_switch_helped_uk_games_market_grow_more_than_12_percent_in_2017"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:30:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-helped-uk-games-market-grow-more-than-12-percent-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/nintendo-switch-helped-uk-games-market-grow-more-than-12-percent-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Helped UK Games Market Grow More Than 12 Percent In 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Mama-mia!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_switch_helps_uk_games_market_grow_more_than_12_percent_in_2017\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_switch_helps_uk_games_market_grow_more_than_12_percent_in_2017\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mama-mia!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The UK games market grew\u00a012.4 percent in 2017\u00a0to \u00a35.11 billion, thanks in part to the incredible success of the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of Nintendo&#8217;s new console saw hardware sales jump 29.9 percent. Sales of physical software rose 3.1 percent, but the pre-owned market fell by 15.1 percent, a possible consequence of players holding onto their games for longer thanks to support from by online play and DLC. Digital sales rose 13.4 percent to \u00a31.6bn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GfK\u2019s Dorian Bloch said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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\u2019s PS4 showing four consecutive years of over 1m units sold per year, a strong performance from Microsoft\u2019s sub \u00a3200 Xbox One S and premium core gamer Xbox One X, plus the introduction of Nintendo\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully this positive trend can continue in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK games market grew\u00a012.4 percent in 2017\u00a0to \u00a35.11 billion, thanks in part to the incredible success of the Nintendo Switch. The introduction of Nintendo&#8217;s new console saw hardware sales jump 29.9 percent. Sales of physical software rose 3.1 percent, but the pre-owned market fell by 15.1 percent, a possible consequence of players holding onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}