80% of game sales in the United Kingdom are digital

New figures recently released by the Entertainment Retailers Association (UK) show that 80% of game software sales in the United Kingdom are now digital. This includes microtransactions, DLC, subscription services, pay-to-play and sales of individual games. Digital sales grew 12.5% year over year, while physical sales fell 2.8%.

The figures also show that the migration from physical to digital has been slow but inevitable: AAA games still have great appeal in physical sales, while for everything else digital sales practically dominate.

The ERA also showed the 20 best-selling games in the United Kingdom in 2018 (counting physical sales only):

1. FIFA 19 (EA) 1,889,401
2. Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar) 1,757,212
3. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Activision) 1,172,855
4. Marvel’s Spider-Man (Sony) 676,621
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) 458,675
6. Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft) 434,133
7. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (Activision) 430,551
8. God of War (Sony) 399,395
9. Forza Horizon 4 (Microsoft) 392,960
10. FIFA 18 (EA) 351,788
11. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar) 339,805
12. Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Activision) 333,725
13. Battlefield V (EA) 313,100
14. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft) 305,937
15. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) 284,155
16. Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) 240,710
17. Call Of Duty: WW2 (Activision) 230,576
18. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Nintendo) 227,767
19. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Square Enix) 226,125
20. Fallout 76 (Bethesda) 218,534

Source: Eurogamer