The Belgian Entertainment Association has announced that in 2011 in Belgium lwa of 1.04 million pc games and 5.5 million console games were sold. The sales drops year-on-year, but total turnover remained roughly stable.
The figures of the retailonderzoeksbedrijf GFK Retail Technology show that the gamesmarkt in Belgium in 2011 a turnover of 220 million euros realized. The revenue experienced a slight decrease, of 0.1 percent, compared to the year before.
The pc platform recorded a turnover of 23.4 million euros, over 10 percent of the total gameomzet. That is a decrease of 9 percent compared with 2010. The consoles were good for a turnover of 196,31 million euro, or 89 percent of the total. There, turnover increased with 1 percent.
What numbers terms, there were 2.1 percent fewer games sold than in 2010. In 2011, there were 0.7 percent less consolespellen sold. The pc platform did it a lot worse; before that went to 100,000 less games over the counter, a decline of 8.8 percent. This evolution was made last year to see it, when there is a decline of 10.8 percent was noted.
Online games are becoming more and more important notice the BEA. The organization cites a study which found that 44 percent of spending for games online is done.
The retailonderzoeksbedrijf also has the top ten best-selling games in Belgium released. The figures were calculated for the different consoles: Nintendo DSi, PS3, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360, and the pc platform separately.
# Sold console games
Sold pc games
1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2
FIFA 12
The Sims 3
3
New Super Mario Bros
Battlefield 3
4
Call of Duty: Black Ops
The Sims: Pets
5
Battlefield 3
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
6
Just Dance 3
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
7
FIFA 11
The Sims 3: Generations
8
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Call of Duty: Black Ops
9
Wii Party
Pro Cycling Manager 2011
10
Pokemon White
The Sims 3: Late Night