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COVID-19 and video game sector - Stay at home boosts sales

June 2020

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The video game sector has had minimal disruption from COVID-19 because games can be made remotely at home and played at home. With more people confined to their homes the online distribution platforms such as Steam, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live have seen significant surges in usage -  Steam, for instance, had 24m concurrent users in March, setting a new record. You might imagine that these were all kids who should have been sitting their GCSEs last week but this isn’t the case as gaming has become a popular adult pastime also and unlike the games that  I played as a boy, these days games often have no defined endpoint. As Frontier’s CEO David Braben put it, a game can provide hundreds and even thousa ...

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