There may be no safer bet in the world than the brave statement that people are playing more video games while socially distant during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sure, it seems obvious that video game and console sales would go up in a time when COVID-19 concerns have us all locked inside like a Sims character with the doors to its house removed, but we now have some hard proof to go with the assumptions.
GameIndustry.Biz took a look at the GSD non-United States market data on gaming and hardware sales during what has been almost the full month of March, influenced by shelter-in-place and emergency declarations. The findings, while obvious, highlight just how big the gaming sector surge is during these trying times. To the shock of nobody, digital sales are seeing a massive jump in numbers, as the week of March 16-22 saw a 52 percent sales increase over the previous week. And those numbers don?t even include the United States or the releases of Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, making it all the more impressive.
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