Videogame sales jump more than 35% from last year’s sales. Due to coronavirus, governments all around the world resorted to imposing lockdown in all their territories, and people are bound to stay at homes for safety measures.
This situation is very preferable to those businesses who are dealing with customers online. That is why the sale of online gaming has surged at a tremendous rate. On the other hand, online streaming websites such as Netflix is also having golden days; they added 15 million new subscribers during this pandemic crisis.
The sale of video games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and many more soar as the billions of people are trapped inside their homes. There is no activity outside as the cinema and theatres are closed to minimize the spread of Covid-19.
According to data, about $1.6 billion worth of businesses is done by selling gaming accessories, software, and hardware. One of the best online selling games is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a life simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.
The Xbox and Sony’s Play Station 5 new generation consoles are expected to come out later this year. At present, the sale of gaming consoles of Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Play Station 4 rose 63% as compared to last year and we are just in the month of April.
The growth in videogame sales is expected to escalate as the coronavirus keeps on spreading and it will take months to end the restrictions and start a normal daily routine. So far above 3 million people have contracted coronavirus, over 200,000 people died and more than 1 million patients recovered all over the world.
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