More than 200,000 game consoles were sold in the UK during February.
The most recent information from GfK shows it was a great month for the console market, driven by new PS5 stock and a lift in Switch deals driven by the release of the new Mario game: Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. The Mario game launched with a special edition console and was the best-selling physical game of the month.
It’s been a great year as of now for comfort deals, with 373,426 gadgets sold so far this year. In light of GfK’s retail board, support game deals are up 184.4% in units so far this year and up an enormous 310.4% in revenue.
This is mostly determined by the launch of the new Xbox and PlayStation consoles, yet Nintendo Switch is also getting a charge out of a strong start to the year. Nintendo Switch reassures that deals are up 81% year-to-date.
Over in the embellishments space, a lift in comfort deals keeps on profiting from headset and regulator deals. Eight hundred thirty-seven thousand one hundred twenty-seven items were sold a month ago, which is up 58% over a similar period in 2020.
The DualSense Wireless Controller for PS5 is the smash hit item in front of the Xbox Wireless Controller, Carbon Black. Turtle Beach’s Ear Force 50X headset has recovered its position as the top gaming earphone at No.3, only in front of the PS5 Pulse 3D Wireless headset. New in the extras graphs this week is the Pulse Red Xbox regulator at No.10.
It was a peaceful month for new game deliveries, with Mario the smash-hit new delivery. Nintendo Switch games represented 51% of all games sold in February, in front of PS4 (28.6%).
Nintendo was also the top-performing boxed distributor, with three games in the Top Five (Animal Crossing: New Horizons at No.3 and Mario Kart 8: Deluxe at No.4 are the other two). Sony likewise had a solid month, helped by more supply of its PS5 support, with Spider-Man: Miles Morales at No.5 for February.
A little more than 1,000,000 confined games were sold in the UK in February, which is up 7% over January.
