Russian gamers’ spending on console games continues to grow. Last year, Russians bought more than 1.8 million games on physical media, spending over 4.4 billion rubles. The lion’s share of purchases came from discs for PlayStation consoles.

The console market in Russia continues to grow. In the period from January to mid-September, 435 thousand consoles worth 7.9 billion rubles were sold. The growth was 15% in monetary terms and 17% in quantitative terms compared to last year.This was announced by the group of companies “M.

Russians are actively spending on games for consoles. In the first four months of 2020, 650 thousand video games were sold in the amount of 1.35 billion rubles ($ 19 million, based on the average exchange rate of 69 rubles per dollar).

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“.

Death Stranding is the fastest—selling PlayStation 4 exclusive in Russia over the past two years. In the first week of sales, it sold more copies than God of War, “Spider-Man” and “Life After” in the same period.

This is taking into account pirated retro devices under the Dendy and Sega brands.

Unit sales of games for Switch in Russia for the first time exceeded the figure for Xbox One. But the leadership in the local retail market remains for PS4 games.

In January-May, sales of Nintendo products on the Russian market for the first time were higher than those of Microsoft. This follows from the report of the group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” for the first five months of 2019.

Russians are spending more and more on video games in retail. At the same time, for those who buy games on physical media, the main platform is Sony PlayStation 4. This was stated in its report for the first quarter of 2019 by the group of companies “M.Video-El Dorado”.

In Russia, most of the physical retail is behind projects for PlayStation 4.

In 2018, the Russian console market showed strong growth. The best dynamics were shown not by modern devices, but by retro consoles. This was reported in “M.Video-Eldorado”.

According to the results of the first half of 2018, the total sales of Nintendo consoles overtook those of Microsoft in unit terms.