Consoles went to the people. From January to September 2017, the game console market in Russia grew by 28% in money and by 39% in pieces compared to the same period last year.
This was announced in early November by the Russian retailer “M.Video”. According to him, a year ago the dynamics of sales was negative. The company does not disclose the reasons for the possible growth.
Sales of game consoles within the M.Video store chain grew faster than in the market as a whole. This year, the company earned 50% more money on consoles and sold 61% more units than a year earlier. At the same time, the company notes that the dynamics of Xbox One sales in 2017 turned out to be higher than the market average – 70%.
M.Video insists that it is responsible for 40% of the video game consoles market. At the same time, according to the network, the consoles are most actively sold not in the capitals, but in Ufa, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Perm.
Source: “M.Video”