IDG’s Forecast Update provides crucial insight and analysis into the trends affecting the console/retail landscape across the US, Europe, and Japan. Highlights include:

• Holiday Preview – IDG Holiday 2017 predictions for both HW and SW, in addition to a Black Friday shopping guide for the US

• Analysis/Insights – Analysis of the latest trends affecting the console and handheld markets including PS4 Pro sales, third-party SW performance on the Switch, and 3DS HW trends in Japan, among others

• H1 2017 Performance Summaries – Hardware and Software Q1-Q3 2017 performance summaries, along with top publishers and titles for the US, Western Europe and Japan

• IDG’s Five-Year Forecast – Provided in Excel and Tableau formats and accompanied by summary of changes made to the forecast by platform and country/territory

Released: November 15, 2017