{"id":22780,"date":"2023-01-10T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:19:16","slug":"video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Preliminary figures from the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association’s annual report (hereon referred to as ERA) reveal video games represented 42.1 percent of the UK’s total home entertainment revenues in 2022.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe UK trade organisation has estimated games made \u00a34.66bn last year (a rise of 2.3 percent from 2021). This means that, once again, games are the biggest home entertainment industry in the UK (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

\nMost of this preliminary figure is made up by digital game sales, which according to ERA are estimated to represent around \u00a34.17bn in revenue. This is a rise of 3.1 percent year-on-year.\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preliminary figures from the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association’s annual report (hereon referred to as ERA) reveal video games represented 42.1 percent of the UK’s total home entertainment revenues in 2022. The UK trade organisation has estimated games made \u00a34.66bn last year (a rise of 2.3 percent from 2021). This means that, once again, games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22781,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2024,243,6712],"class_list":["post-22780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xbox","tag-figures","tag-from","tag-preliminary"],"yoast_head":"\nVideo games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. Join us today.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK | Xtreme Servers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"View Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. Join us today.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Xtreme Servers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-10T14:19:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sarah Connor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sarah Connor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sarah Connor\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2413057eae859a6d8452e041898fadbf\"},\"headline\":\"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-10T14:19:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/elden-ring-image.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"figures\",\"from\",\"Preliminary\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Xbox\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK | Xtreme Servers\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/elden-ring-image.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-10T14:19:16+00:00\",\"description\":\"View Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. Join us today.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/elden-ring-image.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/01\\\/elden-ring-image.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Xtreme Servers\",\"description\":\"The Xtreme Gaming Guides\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Xtreme Servers\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/xtremeservers-icon-facebook.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/xtremeservers-icon-facebook.jpg\",\"width\":337,\"height\":324,\"caption\":\"Xtreme Servers\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2413057eae859a6d8452e041898fadbf\",\"name\":\"Sarah Connor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/avatar_user_4_1638914272-96x96.png\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/avatar_user_4_1638914272-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/avatar_user_4_1638914272-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Sarah Connor\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xtremeservers.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/sconnor\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK | Xtreme Servers","description":"View Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. Join us today.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK | Xtreme Servers","og_description":"View Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. Join us today.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/","og_site_name":"Xtreme Servers","article_published_time":"2023-01-10T14:19:16+00:00","author":"Sarah Connor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sarah Connor","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/"},"author":{"name":"Sarah Connor","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2413057eae859a6d8452e041898fadbf"},"headline":"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK","datePublished":"2023-01-10T14:19:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/"},"wordCount":140,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/elden-ring-image.jpg","keywords":["figures","from","Preliminary"],"articleSection":["Xbox"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/","url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/","name":"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK | Xtreme Servers","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/elden-ring-image.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-10T14:19:16+00:00","description":"View Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. Join us today.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/elden-ring-image.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/elden-ring-image.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/video-games-made-an-estimated-4-66bn-last-year-biggest-home-entertainment-industry-in-the-uk\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Video games made an estimated \u00a34.66bn last year, biggest home entertainment industry in the UK"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/","name":"Xtreme Servers","description":"The Xtreme Gaming Guides","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Xtreme Servers","url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/xtremeservers-icon-facebook.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/xtremeservers-icon-facebook.jpg","width":337,"height":324,"caption":"Xtreme Servers"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/2413057eae859a6d8452e041898fadbf","name":"Sarah Connor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/avatar_user_4_1638914272-96x96.png","url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/avatar_user_4_1638914272-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/avatar_user_4_1638914272-96x96.png","caption":"Sarah Connor"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/author\/sconnor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}