At present we acquired an up to date take a look at how Australia’s online game trade is doing due to new information from the Interactive Video games and Leisure Affiliation (IGEA). The IGEA’s report covers all platforms, consoles and video games and even issues cellular video games as effectively.
In 2022, Australia’s whole online game market hit $4.21 billion in gross sales throughout {hardware}, software program, and peripherals. Bodily retail gross sales have been up 7% in 2021, and digital gross sales have been up 6% over the identical interval. Online game subscriptions, nonetheless, jumped massively by 55% per cent.
The Nintendo Change remained the biggest-selling console. That is even with the improved availability of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence consoles, which jumped 17% and 15%, respectively.
You may see the breakdown between {hardware}, video games and peripherals and subscriptions within the chart beneath.
We don’t get gross sales information for the Australian video games trade fairly often, so once we do, it’s time to latch onto and morsel of data given.
