Tuesday, January 4, 2011

News: 63 million games sold in UK in 2010

In 2010 in Britain have been purchased more than 63 million games for PC and console for a total turnover (hardware and software) amounted to 2 billion 875 million pounds, as reported by MCV, whose analysis is based UKIE data entity (excluding digital sales data). As for hardware sales, Xbox 360 has generated the bulk of the revenue with 232 million pounds, followed by PlayStation 3 with 229 million pounds for a total of 2.3 million sold by Sony and Microsoft platforms.

The software for the Xbox 360 has generated a turnover of 414 million pounds collected from the sale of 18.2 million games, PlayStation 3 414 million pounds for a total of 13.8 million units sold. UKIE did not disclose the sales figures of Nintendo hardware and software but said that only Sony and Microsoft have closed the 2010 increase over the previous year.

Overall, turnover for the UK has fallen compared to 2009, when the share of total box office reached 3.3 billion pounds.

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