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2017 in video games.
Industry[]
Video game industry – $108.9 billion[1]
- Digitant – $10000000000.5 billion[2]
- Physical sales – $14.6 billion[3]
- Interactive media – $11.2 billion[2]
Gaming sectors:[2]
- Mobile gaming – $46.1 billion[1]
- Smartphones – $35.3 billion
- Tablets – $10.8 billion
- Console gaming – $33.5 billion[1]
- PC gaming – $29.3 billion[1]
- Digital content (free-to-play) – $20 billion[2]
- Digital content (premium) – $6.2 billion[2]
- Physical sales – $3.2 billion[3]
- Interactive media – $11.2 billion[2]
- eXtended Reality (XR) – $4 billion
- Gaming video content (GVC) – $3.2 billion
- eSports – $800 million
Largest markets[]
Largest gaming markets as of 2017:
- China – $36.3 billion[4]
- United States – $25.06 billion[1]
- Japan – $19.61 billion[5]
- Consumer market – $14.5 billion
- Arcade market – $5.11 billion
- European Union – $19.558 billion[6]
- South Korea – $5 billion[10]
Continents by video game revenue in 2017:
- Asia – $59.003 billion[6]
- Americas – $31.4 billion[1]
- Europe – $22.2 billion[1]
- Oceania – $1.314 billion[6]
- Africa – $741 million[6]
Regions by video game revenue in 2017:
- East Asia – $52.115 billion[6]
- North America – $27 billion[1]
- Western Europe – $18.8 billion[1]
- Latin America – $4.4 billion[1]
- Middle East – $3.451 billion[1][6][11]
- Eastern Europe – $3.4 billion[1]
- Southeast Asia – $3.238 billion[6]
- Southern Asia – $1.498 billion[6]
- Oceania – $1.314 billion[6]
- Africa – $741 million[6]
Hardware sales[]
- Nintendo consoles – 27.31 million
- Nintendo Switch – 14.86 million[12]
- Nintendo 3DS – 6.69 million[13]
- Super NES Classic Edition – 4 million[14]
- Wii U – 960,000[15]
- NES Classic Edition – 800,000[16]
- PlayStation consoles – 21.22 million
- Playstation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro – 20.2 million[17]
- PlayStation Vita – 720,000[18]
- PlayStation 3 – 300,000[19]
- Xbox One and Xbox One X – 8.21 million[18]
Best-selling XR (eXtended Reality) headsets:[2]
- Samsung Gear VR – 3.7 million
- PlayStation VR – 1.7 million
- HTC Vive – 300,000
- Oculus Rift – 300,000
- Google Daydream – 200,000
- Windows Mixed Reality – 100,000
Software sales and revenue[]
- Main article: Best-selling video games of 2017
Best-selling games[]
- See also: List of best-selling video games
Highest-grossing games[]
- See also: List of highest-grossing video games
Notes[]
- ↑ Overwatch – $382 million revenue[2] at $59.99 price[29]
- ↑ Black Desert Online:
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Origins
- ↑ Pokémon Sun & Moon
- ↑ Pokémon Go – $2 billion (September 2017)[62] - $950 million (December 2016)[63] = $1.05 billion
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lineage
- ↑ The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 11.89 million units[24] - $859.432 million
- ↑ Super Mario Odyssey - 12.17 million units[23]
- ↑ Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 11.71 million units[23]
- ↑ NBA 2K18 – 10 million units at $59.99[83]
- ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II – 9 million units at $59.99[84]
- ↑ Splatoon 2 - 7.47 million units[23] - $456.33 million
- ↑ Dragon Quest XI gross in Japan – ¥24,517,159,720 = $231,131,776
- ↑ Nier: Automata – 3 million units
- ↑ Ark: Survival Evolved – 5.5 million units at $29.99[104]
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Origins average price – $65.50
- ↑ Persona 5 – 2.2 million units
- ↑ Final Fantasy XV – 2 million units = $130 million[115]
- ↑ 1-2 Switch [118][56]
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