Editing GameStar (section)

== Sales and popularity ==
After it launched, ''GameStar'' was able to steadily gain in popularity. By the fourth quarter of 1999, it had sold about 331.535 issues per month and in 2000 it overtook its competitor ''[[PC games (magazine)|PC Games]]'' as the largest German-language PC game magazine in Europe.<ref name=IVW1 /> Since then, ''GameStar'' has kept the spot as the best-selling German-language PC gaming-focused magazine in Europe.<ref name="idghistory" /><ref name= IVWwhole>[[IVW]] statistics ([http://daten.ivw.eu/index.php?menuid=1&u=&p=&detail=true database]), GameStar for IV/1997 – IV/2015</ref>

Like the whole print market, ''GameStar'' was affected by diminishing sales. In 2008, the average monthly [[Magazine circulation|circulation]] was 250,000 copies, but by January 2015 sold issues per month had dropped to 63,189. Despite the drop, ''GameStar'' remains the highest-selling German -language PC gaming-focused magazine in Europe.<ref name="IVWwhole" /><ref>IDG Communications Media AG, ''[http://www.gamestar.de/images/mediadaten/GS_Mediadaten_2009.pdf GameStar Mediadaten 2009]'', 1 October 2008 (German)</ref>