The following were 2015's top ten highest-grossing video games in terms of worldwide revenue (including physical sales, digital purchases, subscriptions, microtransactions, free-to-play and pay-to-play) across all platforms (including mobile, PC and console platforms). Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 5 – The Vault of the Travelerįinancial performance Highest-grossing games The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.Ģ015 games and expansions scoring at least 90/100 (MC) or 90% (GR) Game ^ a b Certain award presentations combine these categories.Top-rated games Major awards Category/Organizationġ6th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards
The largest segments were in digital software (£1.2 billion) and mobile games (£664 million), while sales of consoles dropped to £689 million. In the United Kingdom, the total video game market was valued at nearly GB£4.2 billion, according to figures from Ukie and MCV. The total contribution to the US's gross national product from the industry was $11.7 billion. The ESA reported that there were 2,457 companies in the United States involved in developing or publishing video games that directly supported 65,678 workers (37,122 in developing, 28,556 in publishing) with about another 154,000 indirectly supporting the industry, such as through contracting or video game journalism. Of this, the total software market was $16.5 billion, with the NPD Group estimating retail sales subset at $13.1 billion. In the United States, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the NPD Group estimated total video game market revenues at $23.5 billion, a 5% increase from 2014. Digital sales on consoles made up the remaining $4 billion. Mobile games revenues were at $25.1 billion, a 10% increase from 2014. Of this, the largest sector was in computer game sales and subscription services, accounting for $32 billion. Sales of video games in 2015 reached $61 billion, according to analysis firm SuperData, an 8% increase from 2014.
Top-rated games originally released in 2015 included Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Bloodborne, Undertale, and Fallout 4. The year 2015 saw releases of numerous video games as well as a follow-up to Nintendo's portable 3DS console, the New Nintendo 3DS. Overview of the events of 2015 in video games
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