Friday, May 15, 2020

US Video Game Spending Sets New Quarterly Record

I guess we all know what everyone has been doing in lock-down! Just wait, next week it will be "US games industry hardest hit by pandemic" or some such nonsense.

According to the Q1 2020 Games Market Dynamics: U.S.* report from The NPD Group, overall total industry consumer spending on video gaming in the U.S. reached a record $10.86 billion in the first quarter of 2020 (Jan. – Mar.), an increase of 9 percent compared to the same time period last year.