UK console and games sales declined in 2022, according to GSD market data report

Reasons see the deficiency of banal successful consoles and involvement successful older titles.

Accessories, consoles, and video crippled income declined successful the UK during 2022.

This is according to a year-end manufacture study from GSD, which shares income information for some the retail and integer markets.

According to the information shared with GI.biz, successful presumption of hardware, 2 cardinal consoles sold successful 2022, a 29% diminution year-over-year (yoy).

The diminution was attributed to PlayStation 5 and Switch sales, which consumers bought little of during the year. In the lawsuit of PS5, banal shortages plagued the console for astir of 2022, which brought income down 33% compared to 2021. Switch income were besides down by 27.5%, yet it was inactive the best-selling console for the twelvemonth successful the UK.

Xbox Series X/S was the 3rd best-selling console, but it excessively suffered from deficiency of banal which caused a 15% diminution yoy.

For the year, software income fell by 6%, yet income of caller games saw a 20% uptick. The GSD study states 34.2 cardinal games sold successful 2022, a 6% diminution yoy.

Digital storefront income dropped 3.4% implicit 2021, with 20 cardinal games sold, and carnal income fell by 9% to 14.2 million. A deficiency of involvement successful older titles was the main origin successful the bundle income decline. That said, newer releases saw a 20% yoy summation successful income to 13.9 million.

For 2022, the best-selling games successful the UL were FIFA 23, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Elden Ring, and GTA 5, respectively.

Sales of cases, controllers, and headphones fell 13% yoy to 9.22 million. The best-selling accessory of 2022 was the DualSense White Controller, followed by the Midnight Black version. The best-selling third-party accessory was Turtle Beach's achromatic Ear Force Recon 50X Headset for Xbox.