UK PC Digital Market Hit £741 Million in 2014, Retail Market Shrinks - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 April 2015 / 4,629 Views
The PC digital market in the UK continued to grow in 2014. The market increased nine percent year-over-year in 2014 to reach £741 million. The same cannot be said for the PC retail market in the UK - it continues to plummet. Sales for PC retail games dropped 30 percent to just £30 million.
Despite the drop in sales at retail the overall PC market increased three percent year-over-year in 2014 to £771 million.
The console market in the UK is almost the exact opposite, with digital sales hitting £118 million in 2014, while retail sales reached £999 million.
The digital market includes the sale of games, DLC, MMO subscriptions, and social games, according to SuperData who compiled the figures. The retail figures include numbers from UKIE and GfK Chart-Track.
Thanks MCVUK.
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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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Ever since I upgraded my PC, all I do now is game on that. I got rid of my PS4 and Xbox one because I just stopped caring. I don't see the point on buying multi platform games on them when I can get much better performance on a PC that I use constantly and because they don't have many first-party games that appeal to me, it was time for them consoles to go. I can fully understand why some people like to own a PC as well as maybe the one console, I'm a PC and Wii U person myself.
Kind of how I transitioned, I was originally just a console gamer with a bad PC that was used for old RTS games like C&C, my two friends helped me build a new one in 2013 and I'm upgrading again shortly, I only see a ened for consoles for their exclusives now that I know they are basically weaker versions of a PC but even then it's hard to sell me on games that don't appeal to me which is why I haven't bought into any of them yet. I'll be getting a WIi U this year though since it's the only one standing out for me.
Maybe if the retail PC games didn't cost £10+ more than the steam version on launch day I would by retail? oh wait it has to connect to steam anyway so no point :)
Want me to buy PC retail games make them the same price as a steam version with no needing a connection to an online store.
No? didn't think so.
"and social games" - Makes me wonder how much of the £741 million is actually real PC gaming market.
Quite very real I'd say.
