Boxed Games are Now Only 5% of Market; Almost Ceased to Exist on PC

GamesIndustry.biz has published another edition of the summary of the year in numbers. As usual, the editors provided a comprehensive infographic with many statistics, collected by, among others, the analytics company Newzoo, which we have posted below.

This is what the gaming market looked like in 2023Source: gamesindustry.biz.

A year ago, the website pointed to a further decline in boxed game sales. Unhappily for fans of physical releases, the downward trend has not gone away in the last 12 months.

1. In 2023, the results of boxed editions fell again and ed for only 5% of games sold, generating $9.5 billion in revenue (10.7 billion in 2022). In comparison: digital games fared slightly better than a year ago, bringing in $174.5 billion in revenue for the industry. (up 0.8%).
2. On PC, as much as 99% of revenue was generated by digital sales. The refuge of boxes remain the consoles, but even on them they had only a 17% share.

Overall, the game market performed similarly to a year ago, generating $184 billion in revenue (which GI.biz cites as an increase, although the infographic from a year ago shows $184.4 billion; perhaps the editors were referring to full-year figures, while both summaries were based on statistics through November).

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As for individual games, the biggest winner was Marvel's Spider-Man 2 found their way to both lists.

However, of these four titles, only two were among the ten most covered video games by the press. On top of that, the latest Zelda fell far behind didn't give a chance to any other trailer in 2023.

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