Anyone surprised to hear 92% of all PC game sales are digital?

Digital sales are up 16% over 2012

To the surprise of probably no one, it looks li☂ke the vast majority of PC games that are sold are through digital channels. PC site PCR has been told by ana♑lyst DFC Intelligence that in 2013, , while physical sales have declined to 8%.

In the UK specifically, physical games sales accounted for £1.015 billion which was just pipped by digital games sales at £1.18 billion, which includes mobile and tablet games. That is a rise of 16.4% from 2012. There’s no breakdown of how the digital sales were spread between formats but I’d have to imagine free-to-play and mobile titles made up a fair chunk of those sales. 

That comes as no surprise for me, personally. I mainly play games on my PC and really, there’s no reason for me to buy physical copies of PC games. There’s a much better range of titles available online and shops here don’t accept trade-ins of PC titles.

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