{"id":17153,"date":"2025-01-08T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/boxed-video-game-sales-collapse-in-uk-as-digital-revenues-flatten\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:38:45","slug":"boxed-video-game-sales-collapse-in-uk-as-digital-revenues-flatten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/boxed-video-game-sales-collapse-in-uk-as-digital-revenues-flatten\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxed video game sales collapse in UK as digital revenues flatten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data from the Entertainment and Retail Association shows more and more players leaving physical games behind for digital downloads and subscriptions<\/p>\n

As music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high<\/a> of \u00a32.4bn \u2013 the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation \u2013 the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, has shrunk by 4.4%. The most significant decline was in boxed video game sales, down 35%.<\/p>\n

Data from Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) puts the total worth of the UK video game market in 2024 at \u00a34.6bn, double the music market and behind TV and movies at \u00a35bn.<\/p>\n

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\nData from the Entertainment and Retail Association shows more and more players leaving physical games behind for digital downloads and subscriptions
\nAs music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high of \u00a32.4bn \u2013 the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation \u2013 the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, has shrunk by 4.4%. The most significant decline was in boxed video game sales, down 35%.
\nData from Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) puts the total worth of the UK video game market in 2024 at \u00a34.6bn, double the music market and behind TV and movies at \u00a35bn. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Data from the Entertainment and Retail Association shows more and more players leaving physical games behind for digital downloads and subscriptions As music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high of \u00a32.4bn \u2013 the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation \u2013 the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, …<\/p>\n

Boxed video game sales collapse in UK as digital revenues flatten<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}