Video Game Market Bigger in the UK Than Video and Music Combined - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 January 2019 / 2,097 Views
The video game market has continued to have a stronger presence and it is now by far the biggest entertainment business in the UK with having a larger marketshare than video and music combined, according to a report released by the Entertainment Retailers Association.
"The physical console and PC games market shrank slightly in 2018, down 2.8% to £769.9m, and digital growth was by recent standards a modest 12.5% to £3,094m, but the sheer scale of the games market is such that it was enough to make it bigger than video and music combined," reads the report.
Digital revenue now dominates the market with 80.1 percent of games revenue coming from digital sales, 72.3 percent of video and 71.3 percent of music.
ERA CEO Kim Bayley stated, "The games industry has been incredibly effective in taking advantage of the potential of digital technology to offer new and compelling forms of entertainment. Despite being the youngest of our three sectors, it is now by far the biggest."
Here are the top 20 best-selling console games at retail in the UK in 2018, according to GfK/UKIE:
| Position | Title | Company | Physical Unit Sales |
| 1 | FIFA 19 | Electronic Arts | 1,889,401 |
| 2 | Red Dead Redemption 2 | Take 2 | 1,757,212 |
| 3 | Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 | Activision Blizzard | 1,172,855 |
| 4 | Marvel's Spider-Man | Sony Computer Ent. | 676,621 |
| 5 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Nintendo | 458,675 |
| 6 | Far Cry 5 | Ubisoft | 434,133 |
| 7 | Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy | Activision Blizzard | 430,551 |
| 8 | God Of War | Sony Computer Ent. | 399,395 |
| 9 | Forza Horizon 4 | Microsoft | 392,960 |
| 10 | FIFA 18 | Electronic Arts | 351,788 |
| 11 | Grand Theft Auto V | Take 2 | 339,805 |
| 12 | Spyro Reignited Trilogy | Activision Blizzard | 333,725 |
| 13 | Battlefield V | Electronic Arts | 313,100 |
| 14 | Assassin's Creed Odyssey | Ubisoft | 305,937 |
| 15 | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | Nintendo | 284,155 |
| 16 | Super Mario Odyssey | Nintendo | 240,710 |
| 17 | Call Of Duty: Wwii | Activision Blizzard | 230,576 |
| 18 | Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! | Nintendo | 227,767 |
| 19 | Shadow Of The Tomb Raider | Square Enix / Microsoft | 226,125 |
| 20 | Fallout 76 | Bethesda Softworks | 218,534 |
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Thats great for all of us who play video games :D
And its funny how even though we are bigger than the movie and music industry, the media is so out of touch of the reality that video games are just a form of entertainment, not some kind of cult and society of 40 year old losers
long life to video games
Only just caught up? Globally it was always bigger.
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