Computer games industry storms ahead as it enjoys sales of €250m

The computer games market in Ireland was worth €248m last year according to research by Jamie McCormick, an industry specialist who complied the figures in a report, The Games Industry in Ireland 2012.

Mr McCormick’s day job is as the marketing systems manager at gPotato.eu. He put the figures together to try and find out how the Irish games industry was developing and how much it was contributing to the Irish economy.

The research found that the physical retail of games such as Halo 3, Call of Duty Black Ops II and Assassin’s Creed III in traditional shops dropped from €211m in 2011 to under €165m in 2012. The industry contributes an estimated €34m in Vat to state coffers from the high-street market.