Sales of digital points cards in stores rose slightly from 158m in 2014 to 160m last year.
The main area of growth in this sector are cards bought for specific individual titles, which was valued at 27m in 2015.
IHS estimates that over 1.224bn was spent on PC and console digital games in 2015 – including microtransactions and DLC. That means digital points cards accounted for around 13 per cent of the overall digital games market.
Digital points card figures are courtesy of GfK Entertainment.
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Playing for the Planet today announced the official go live launch of the 2026 Green Game Jam, with 70 participating games beginning to roll out new in-game environmental activations to players worldwide. The games are launching exclusive coral reef and rainforest themed content, events and challenges to celebrate World Environment Day, with yet more titles joining the festivities in September of this year making this year’s Green Game Jam the biggest to date!
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