games to play at any opportunity: This is best done on the Smartphone. Among the gamers it is the most used platform.

Berlin (dpa/tmn) – The Smartphone is claimed to be in Germany as the most popular game platform. A total of 19.5 million people have played in the year 2019 on your mobile companions, like the Association Game tells. The were 900 000 people more than in 2018.

A Personal Computer (PC) used would therefore have been about 16.3 million people Going – that was a Plus of 2.9 million gamers. As the reason for this increased popularity of the Association, called the long-awaited releases of Games like “Anno 1800” and the Western epic, “Red Dead Redemption 2”.

Slight decline in console-use

The use of consoles, such as Nintendo’s Switch, Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox took off in the year 2019 on the other hand: For 15.9 million people they were the preferred platform, 800 000 fewer than in the previous year. A thrust of the Association is expected to return for the end of the year with the release of new consoles from Sony and Microsoft.

a Total of more than 34 million people in Germany, Computer and video games according to the Association. The data basis for the Numbers provided by the market research company GfK.

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