UK video games (excluding hardware) generated £3.864 billion last year, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association.
Digital accounted for over £3 billion of that number, representing 80.1 per cent of the market. Digital grew 12.5 per cent year-on-year, whereas physical sales dropped slightly by 2.8 per cent (as revealed yesterday).
It seems a bit negative for the physical market, but these figures do not include hardware. And actually more consoles were sold in 2018 than in 2017. GamesIndustry.biz can reveal over 2.4 million games machines were sold in the UK last year. PS4 was the biggest selling console, with sales flat year-on-year, but Nintendo Switch was the biggest growth area, with Switch console sales up more than 20 per cent.
UKs Top 20 best-selling games of 2018 (Retail & Digital):
1. FIFA 19 - 1,889,401 (Down from 2.7m in 2017, 25% digital)
2. Red Dead Redemption 2 - 1,757,212
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 - 1,172,855
4. Spider-Man - 676,621
5. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe - 458,675 (up from 341,531 in 2017)
6. Far Cry 5 - 434,133
7. Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy - 430,551
8. God of War - 399,395
9. Forza Horizon 4 - 392,960
10. FIFA 18 - 351,788
11. Grand Theft Auto V - 339,805
12. Spyro Reignited Trilogy - 333,725
13. Battlefield V - 313,100
14. Assassin's Creed Odyssey - 305,937
15. Super Smash Bros Ultimate - 284,155
16. Super Mario Odyssey - 240,710
17. Call of Duty: WWII - 230,576
18. Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu - 227,767 (if combined with Eevee would be at No 11)
19. Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 226,125
20. Fallout 76 - 218,534
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