Last year, residents of Russia bought 1.9 million console games on physical media at retail. In monetary terms, sales amounted to 4.2 billion rubles, according to the group “M.Video-El Dorado“.
According to her report:
- 70% of sales were for PlayStation 4 games;
- the most popular game for PlayStation 4 was Red Dead Redemption 2 (Death Stranding was not even in the top five);
- sales of games for Nintendo Switch in 2019 grew faster than for any other platform;
- sales of games for the Nintendo Switch in monetary terms outstripped the Xbox One;
- The best-selling game for Nintendo Switch was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild;
- The best-selling game for Xbox One was FIFA 19;
- from January to December 2019 , 670 thousand gaming consoles worth 12.3 billion rubles were sold on the Russian market;
- the average price decreased by 6% to 18.5 thousand rubles (among the factors are the reduction in the cost of PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One consoles, the appearance of Xbox One S without a disk drive and Nintendo Switch Lite, as well as the boom of retro consoles);
- The combined share of Sega, Dendy, Nintendo Classic Mini: NES and PS Classic in pieces reached a quarter of the market;
- The PlayStation 4 remains the most popular console with a share of about 55% in pieces and 75% in money;
- in second place in sales is the Xbox One family from Microsoft;
- on the third is a hybrid Nintendo Switch.
Also on the topic:
- In January-September 2019, 400 thousand gaming consoles were purchased in RussiaM.Video: $12.9 million worth of games were sold in Russian retail in the second quarter
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