January 25, 2019 19:04

Sony PlayStation Dominates Iran Console Game Market

In the past fiscal year that ended in March 2018, Iran’s console gaming market turnover amounted to $153.7 million. In that year, Iranians spent some 965 billion rials ($26 million) on purchasing console games

From among 5.2 million console gamers in Iran, 63% prefer Sony PlayStation, 10% are enthusiastic fans of Microsoft Xbox while the remaining are either undecided or prefer handheld consoles made by Nintendo or Sony, results of a nationwide survey show.
Conducted by the Digital Games Research Center (DIREC) and published on its website (direc.ir), the survey indicates there are 5.2 million Iranian console gamers of which 90% are men.
DIREC said only 11% of the gamers play on handheld consoles.

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