{"id":98087,"date":"2019-08-08T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/uk_spends_p1_56_billion_on_video_games_in_first_half_of_2019_digital_sales_on_the_rise"},"modified":"2019-08-08T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:15:00","slug":"uk-spends-1-56-billion-on-video-games-in-first-half-of-2019-digital-sales-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/uk-spends-1-56-billion-on-video-games-in-first-half-of-2019-digital-sales-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Spends \u00a31.56 Billion On Video Games In First Half Of 2019, Digital Sales On The Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK consumers spent \u00a31.56 billion on video games during the first half of 2019, the Entertainment Retailers Association has reported.<\/p>\n

The figure is a 1% increase from the total spent during the same period in 2018, which reached \u00a31.54 billion. Digital spending rose from \u00a31.34 billion to \u00a31.37 billion, seeing a 2.4% increase year-on-year, while physical spending dropped from \u00a3202 million to \u00a3184.9 million, an 8.5% fall.<\/p>\n

Video games actually generated almost as much revenue as music and video combined, being the largest-earning entertainment sector in the country by far. For comparison’s sake, total spending on video reached \u00a31.07 billion in the same period, while music spending reached \u00a3672.7 million.<\/p>\n

A list of the top-selling games for the period has also been provided, although it’s worth noting that it might not be entirely accurate. The ERA notes that physical sales tracked by ISFE \/ B2Boost have been included, as well as digital sales from IHS Markit estimates; with some publishers – like Nintendo – opting to not publish digital sales, it’s hard to track complete totals accurately.<\/p>\n

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  1. Grand Theft Auto V (361,312)<\/li>\n
  2. FIFA 19 (360,588)<\/li>\n
  3. Tom Clancy\u2019s The Division 2 (263,520)<\/li>\n
  4. Red Dead Redemption 2 (259,931)<\/li>\n
  5. Resident Evil 2 (239,495)<\/li>\n
  6. Days Gone (229,182)<\/li>\n
  7. Tom Clancy\u2019s Rainbow Six Siege (175,451)<\/li>\n
  8. Call of Duty Black Ops 4 (172,065)<\/li>\n
  9. Anthem (165,746)<\/li>\n
  10. Forza Horizon 4 (144,790)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It’s good to see video games thriving in the entertainment world in the UK – we dread to think how much we’ve contributed to that total with the number of games flying on to Switch this year!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    UK consumers spent \u00a31.56 billion on video games during the first half of 2019, the Entertainment Retailers Association has reported. The figure is a 1% increase from the total spent during the same period in 2018, which reached \u00a31.54 billion. Digital spending rose from \u00a31.34 billion to \u00a31.37 billion, seeing a 2.4% increase year-on-year, while […]<\/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-98087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98087","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=98087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}