Digital retailer GAME have announced that pre-tax profits fell by 39%, down to £16.9m in the 26 weeks to January 28th. Much of this was caused by a weak line-up of games over the Christmas period, as well as declining hardware sales. However, the company believes that products such as the Nintendo Switch, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Super Mario Odyssey. Chief executive of Game, Martyn Gibbs noted that, “Although we expect industry-wide challenges in our core Xbox and PlayStation categories to continue, we anticipate the overall UK market to remain positive during the rest of 2017.”