Last week it was reported that PS4 games accounted for 42.2% of all boxed games sold in the UK, but since then figures have been updated to give a much clearer picture. In fact 48% of all boxed games sold during 2018 were for PS4, still below the 2017 figure but not as dramatic a drop as first thought. 30.2% of games were sold on Xbox One, and Switch was 16.8%.
FIFA 19 was the best selling game of 2019, though figures were lower than previous years, as 25% of sales of the game were digital. Red Dead Redemption 2 was the second best selling title of 2018. EA was the biggest publisher in the UK, with EA published games making up for 14.7% of games sold which continues the decline has that number was 17% in 2017 and 22% in 2016. Again this will be down to the growth of digital sales. Nintendo published games made up 14.1% of sales.
Now the charts!
Platform Market Share – Units
| Position | Platform | Software Market share (Units) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PlayStation 4 | 48% |
| 2 | Microsoft Xbox One | 30.2% |
| 3 | Nintendo Switch | 16.8% |
| 4 | Nintendo 3DS | 3% |
| 5 | PC | 0.9% |
| 6 | Xbox 360 | 0.5% |
| 7 | Nintendo Wii | 0.3% |
| 8 | PlayStation 3 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Nintendo Wii U | 0.1% |
Top 20 UK Games Publishers – Units
| Last Year | This Year | Company Name | Software Market share (Units) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Electronic Arts | 14.7% |
| 3 | 2 | Nintendo | 14.1% |
| 7 | 3 | Take-Two | 11.9% |
| 2 | 4 | Activision Blizzard | 11.6% |
| 5 | 5 | Sony | 9.6% |
| 4 | 6 | Ubisoft | 7.7% |
| 6 | 7 | Warner Bros | 6.5% |
| 9 | 8 | Microsoft | 5.2% |
| 8 | 9 | Bethesda | 3.9% |
| 10 | 10 | Square Enix Europe | 2.4% |
| 13 | 11 | Bandai Namco | 1.9% |
| 11 | 12 | Capcom | 1.7% |
| 15 | 13 | Sega | 1.6% |
| 20 | 14 | Maximum Games | 0.7% |
| 14 | 15 | Codemasters | 0.6% |
| 18 | 16 | Sold Out | 0.6% |
| 33 | 17 | Gearbox Publishing | 0.5% |
| 21 | 18 | Focus Home Interactive | 0.5% |
| 17 | 19 | Team17 | 0.5% |
| 17 | 20 | 505 Games | 0.4% |
Source: GI.biz
wonkey-willy
statistically quite true..
Strangely enough I would say 80% of my PS4 games are disc based with the other 20% being games from ps plus..
On my xboxone 90% of my games are digital from gold or game pass with the other 10% are xbox 360 backwards compatible discs..
Crazy_Del
I don’t understand….. gamers always complaing about HDD or the download file size yet go for digital!
I am not a fan of digital. I prefer disc and as always I am a collector for steelbook editions and such. I think having a disc is better due to less HDD and I hate gamers saying I am too lazy to change disc….. jeez!
badger
Do disc’s actually use less space on your HDD than digital? I thought they took up exactly the same amount?
Crazy_Del
I don’t know I just assume it doesn’t… I’ll check digital games that I already own on disc and compare the memory size. Will report back!
Stefan L
Discs and digital take up the exact same size on the HDD, Del. Reading data from a disc during gameplay just isn’t anywhere near fast enough anymore, so everything has to be on the HDD either way.
rkojpl7
Disc’s take up the same space as a download since the PS4 rips the disc to the Hard Drive and then the disc is only used to verify the game once installed.
As for me I’m not a fan of digital either. I’d rather have physical media especially when it comes to games.