In 2019, Russians spent 4.2 billion rubles ($65 million) on retail console games

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.

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