Consumers in the U.S. spent nearly $3 billion on game-related products last month, according to the December 2019 NPD game report. But that number is down significantly year-over-year. Strong ongoing performances from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare just couldn’t make up for plummeting interest in current-gen offerings. Here are the full results:
| December 2019 Dollar Sales |
|
Dec’18 |
Dec’19 |
Change |
| Total Video Game Sales |
|
$3.494b |
$2.984b |
-15% |
| Video Games Hardware |
|
$1,168m |
$973m |
-17% |
| PC & Video Games Software (PC, Console and Portable; Physical and Full Game Digital Formats from the STEAM, PlayStation and Xbox platforms) |
|
$1,314m |
$1,141m |
-13% |
| Video Games Accessories & Game Cards |
|
$1,012m |
$869m |
-14% |
“December 2019 tracked spending across video game hardware, software, accessories, and game cards totaled $3.0 billion, falling 15 percent when compared to a year ago,” NPD analyst Mat Piscatella said. “Full year tracked spending declined 13 percent when compared to 2018, to $14.6 billion.”
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