ERA: In 2021 the UK games market went down by 3.3% compared to 2020
Mobile is the only growing segment of the UK games business in 2021.
The UK market valuation is £4.2B.
ERA analytics are mentioning, that the growth to 2019 is 13.9%. Abnormal growth of pandemic 2020 might not be counted.
Semi-conductors shortage caused a negative effect on the UK market with PS5 & Xbox Series sales below estimations.
Physical game copies sales decreased by 20.8% compared to 2020, and 15.1% compared to 2019. The volume is £511M.
Digital game copies sales increased by 19.4% compared to 2019 and declined only by 0.4% compared to 2020. The volume is £3.7B.
FIFA 22 became the best-selling game in the UK. It was sold about 2.2M times.
The only segment that showed growth in 2021 in the UK was Mobile with 8.1% up compared to 2020.
Games revenue are higher than Music (£1.6B) and Movies (£3.7B) sectors.