Physical game sales fell 4.5% last year, the digital entertainment and retail association says.
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The digital entertainment and retail association said 89.5% of games sold had been digital downloads and the remaining 10.5% actual physical copies.In total, the gaming industry accounted for £4.7bn of sales in the UK in 2022 - higher than that of the film, television or music industries. ERA chief executive Kim Bayley said gaming was the "often-unheralded leader" of the entertainment market.
Digital stores owned by gaming titans such as PlayStation and Valve do not have to publish their sales figures - but the ERA estimates, provided market-research company Omdia, were "the industry benchmark", Ms Bayley told BBC News.
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