More and more players in Germany pay

26. July 2018 at 16:36:

PlayStation Plus, Xbox Live Gold and services like EA Access are increasingly being used in Germany for a fee. Already three million players are betting on it. This is the conclusion of a survey conducted by the GfK market research company.

In Germany, more and more players are willing to invest money in paid online services. These include offers such as PlayStation Plus, Xbox Live Gold or EA Access. The professional badociation Game is referred to this on the basis of a survey conducted by the GfK market research company. The number of users has increased from 58 percent to three million in one year to 1.9 million.

More users mean more sales at the same time. And also at this point, he went clearly uphill. After paying 114 million euros of paid services online in 2016, this number rose to 179 million euros in 2017, up 57%. Since 2015, where 77 million euros have been implemented with paid online services, there has even been a doubling

year	Turnover in millions of euros	Growth
2015	77 million euros	unspecified
2016	114 million euros	49%
2017	179 millions of euros	57%

"PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold are available already matching deals for game consoles from Microsoft and Sony". so the game of the federal badociation. "Nintendo also announced plans to launch a pay service later this year, including the ability to play online with each other and secure storage in the cloud."

"are part of the Frequently offer also free access to the changing computer and video games as well as discounts for the purchase of games and extensions in the online stores of the different platforms The costs depend on the service between 4 and 10 euros per month. "

The game sees an additional potential

These are huge gains, but the end of the mast is far from being reached. Broadband network development is however necessary.

Felix Falk, General Manager of the Game, explained in this context: "The success of online pay services shows an exciting trend with the Games.The services are still relatively small, but the strong growth of users and revenues shows the great potential of the games industry. "

And further:" Innovations such as cloud games will intensify this trend. "However, it is absolutely necessary. "

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