This quarterly report offers a recap of the Q2 games markets in the US, Japan and Western Europe, including year-to-date hardware and software performance by platform, top publishers/titles by market, and an updated 5-year forecast with rationales. In addition, this report covers key trends in each market, including:

• Analysis of hardware pricing, SKU sales shares and overall hardware unit sales and software tie ratio trends by platform in the US

• Recent European market developments for games

• Study of the popularity of the Pokemon franchise on console in Japan

• Array of dashboards highlighting H1 performance with year-over-year and full-year performance

• IDG’s detailed 5-year forecast in Excel and Tableau formats

Released: September 3, 2019