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March 3rd, 2008 @ 12:07
According to this, games are now bigger selling than music on the UK high street, and are closing in on stagnant DVD sales.
The figures below are taken from the Entertainment Retailers’ Association, who’s boss, Kim Bayley, said, “Games have overtaken music massively this year – music revenues are down on last year’s figures and game sales are huge in comparison now.”
ERA UK retail figures for the past three years
2005:
Video/DVD: £2,196m
Music: £1,839m
Games: £1,345m
Total: £5,380m
2006:
Video/DVD: £2,122m
Music: £1,651m
Games: £1,361m
Total: £5,134m
2007:
Video/DVD: £2,164m
Games: £1,719m
Music: £1,417m
Total: £5,300m
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March 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Optimistic on the figures, eh? Not so much “games overtake music” as “music falls under games”
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Goes both ways, innit. Games are going up and music’s going down. It’s a bit of a daft figure, tbh, because it doens’t take into account downloaded music. It’s just shop sales. So all it really means is that money that was being spent on CDs in shops is now being spent on iTunes, and similar.