news.bbc.co.uk - 1/7/2009
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Sales of videogames in the UK hit an all time high of 82.8m in 2008, figures from the industry trade body show. The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) said that consumers spent £4.03bn on video game hardware and software. Total video game sales were in excess of ...
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UK Games Sales Rose 23% In 2008
Pixel-love —
http://flickr.com/photos/worldofoddy/2106447264/ The headline says it all; the BBC report on game sales , sourcing from ELSPA. Games are truly ascending into the mainstream, and without recession they would have done even better. Sale shopping in late December and early January was very strange this time around. We’d wander into stores after saying “They’ve gone into administration, let’s take a look in there”. Places like Woolworths and Zavvi, while holding fire sales, had the smallest reductions of all on videogames. I would guess this is because they knew that they would ...
UK Game Sales Break Records
WomenGamers.com Site News —
Sales of videogame software and hardware in the UK hit an all time high, figures from the industry trade body show. The BBC News has the story . Figures from ELSPA suggest that video games for the Nintendo Wii made up almost a quarter of all software sales, with more than 20m games sold. This was an increase of 112% on the previous year.
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