Due to the decline in tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic and the fear of sending their children to summer camps, a new peak in sales of video games for children was generated, as many families allocated savings to purchases of entertainment products.

In this context, Verbatim, a data storage technology company, announced that during the first days of January, sales of products related to gaming increased by 78%, compared to last year.

"Today, being a gamer in Argentina is not economical, but it is a market that continues to grow, mainly due to the continuity of the impulse that emerged at the beginning of the quarantine: there are more gamers and their games are "deepened"; on the other hand, thinking about the youngest, there are no colonies, fewer families can go on vacation and there are fewer social gatherings," confesses Gabriela Toscanini, Sales Manager LAR South at Verbatim.

The money allocated to gaming also rose due to the increase in the dollar and the greater supply of peripherals. Not only the console or the CPU is important, you also have to think about televisions, monitors, keyboards, mice, joysticks, MousePads, microphones and even armchairs.¬

The peripherals necessary for all this to work and the experience to be more realistic: mouse, keyboard and HeadSet (the latter very popular in this pandemic) which together do not go below 15 thousand pesos, if we consider starter products, and at least 36 thousand pesos thinking about professional products where the gaming experience changes radically¬. It must be remembered that when everything necessary has been obtained, it will be necessary to have a good internet connection, since without it everything invested is useless.¬

"Historically, January was a special date because people allocated their expenses to shopping for Christmas, New Years and Kings, and took vacations. Today, given the difficulty of traveling, the trend turned to making it a month with higher sales. In short, being a gamer in Argentina is not that simple, but luckily there are installment plans that make things a little simpler for us," says Gabriela Toscanini, Sales Manager LAR South at Verbatim.