US video game spending fell in 2019, says industry group


The Stadia game controller displayed in the Google Play Space at CES 2020. Google set out to transform the video game world late last year with the launch of a service called Stadia that lets people access console-quality games as easily as they do email. — Bloomberg

SAN FRANCISCO: Americans spent less on video games last year as new consoles were readied for launch and Google took to streaming titles from the cloud, an industry group reported on Jan 16.

US spending on video game hardware and software in 2019 tallied US$14.6bil (RM59.18bil), a 13% decline from the previous year, market-tracker NPD Group said.

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