Video games sales are setting records as Americans hunker down at home
April 3, 2020
Sales of newly-released video games are setting sales records as millions of people across the globe are forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Looking at the data, consumer video game spend has dramatically increased in the past month,” said Andrew Little, research analyst at Global X. “In mid-March, we saw that consumers spent around 65% more on video games compared to the same period last year.”
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