Aussies stump up $4b

countries, including the USA and the UK.”

The impressive games sales figure will no doubt have been buoyed by hugely successful titles including Sony’s God of War, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and Rockstar’s leviathan Red Dead Redemption II.

Sales of console accessories, such as controllers, were up by 18.7 per cent as well.

Another growth area was in microtransactions and ingame purchases, which research firm Teslyte said had grown 190 per cent year on year, much of it driven by the phenomenally popular Battle Royale game Fortnite (right).

There were double-digit growth numbers across download, mobile and subscription purchases.