Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

A report in the Wall Street Journal suggests that Nintendo will shake up the console market this summer with unveiling of two new models of Nintendo Switch.

UK Charts. Week of March 23, 2019:
1. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice – Activision
2. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 – Ubisoft
3. FIFA – EA Sports

Effective from the 15th of April 2019 George Sherman will be appointed as the new CEO of GameStop. Sherman takes over from interim CEO shane Kim.

Walmart is the latest company to reveal its interest in the emerging market of game streaming, most likely spurred on by the announcement of Google Stadia.

Since the game launched on the March 8, 2019, Devil May Cry 5 sold 2 million copies worldwide, amounting to 2 million copies in 2 weeks.

Superdata have released their report on the worldwide digital games market for February 2019. The report shows that spending on digital games across the PC and mobile segments grew…

According to an internal email from Executive Vice President Gaming at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, Xbox is planning to go big on streaming at E3 in 2019.

For the 6 months ending on the 26th of January 2019 revenue has fallen to £492.9 million for UK retailer GAME, a drop of 4.7 percent.

According to the data from GfK, supermarket sales made up less than 20 percent of all video game sales in the UK last year.

Google revealed their new game-streaming platform, Google Stadia, which can stream console quality games without the need to download titles or use discs.