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Newzoo: PC games market up 1.8% year-on-year in 2022

Newzoo: PC games market up 1.8% year-on-year in 2022

Research firm Newzoo has reported that digital and physical PC games brought in $38.2 billion during 2022.

The company's report on the console and PC markets for last year shows that overall this combined market saw a 2.2 per cent decrease, bringing in $92.3 billion. Revenue from console games dipped 4.2 per cent, while digital and physical PC titles rose 1.8 per cent. That $38.2 billion is 41.3 per cent of the total revenue brought in by the PC and console market.

Meanwhile, browser PC games brought $2.3 billion, representing a whopping 16.7 per cent decrease year-on-year.

Though bringing in more revenue, the total number of console players is far exceeded by PC. Only 611 million are using the former platforms, while a huge 1.1 billion are playing on PC.

The biggest markets for PC and console were the US – with $31.2 billion revenue, a 34 per cent share – while Asia-Pacific made up 33 per cent of the total, with a massive $30.2 billion in spending. Europe followed up with $24.3 billion, a 26 per cent market share.


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Alex Forbes-Calvin is a freelance writer and photographer, mostly operating within the games industry. Over his career, he has written for the likes of MCV, Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, The Observer, VGC and Esquire. That's on top of writing books for Dark Horse on RuneScape, Assassin's Creed, Dead Island 2 and more.