--- title: UKIE: UK games market reaches £8.7bn in 2025 | daily.dev description: The UK games market reached £8.7 billion in 2025, up from the previous year, driven by digital software sales (£6.03bn, +7%) and hardware sales (£2.17bn, +3%)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ukie-uk-games-market-reaches-8-7bn-in-2025-tihuu914s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: UKIE: UK games market reaches £8.7bn in 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The UK games market reached £8.7 billion in 2025, up from the previous year, driven by digital software sales (£6.03bn, +7%) and hardware sales (£2.17bn, +3%)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ukie-uk-games-market-reaches-8-7bn-in-2025-tihuu914s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Tihuu914s.png og:image:alt: UKIE: UK games market reaches £8.7bn in 2025 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # UKIE: UK games market reaches £8.7bn in 2025 **[GamesIndustry.biz](https://daily.dev/sources/gamesindustry)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The UK games market reached £8.7 billion in 2025, up from the previous year, driven by digital software sales (£6.03bn, +7%) and hardware sales (£2.17bn, +3%) boosted by the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. Mobile gaming grew 7.9% to £2 billion. Game-related media saw strong growth, with film/TV/soundtracks up 70% and toys/merchandising up 43%. A Minecraft Movie became the UK's highest-grossing film at £56.8 million. Despite market growth, UK games industry employment declined, with the workforce falling from 28,516 to 27,347 — described as the most severe downturn on record. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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