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mcvuk.com - 2/9/2009

UK industry off to a flyer in 2009 | Gaming Industry | News by MCV

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2009, charttrack, sales, start, uk UK industry off to a flyer in 2009 Tim Ingham Feb 9 2009, 1:57pm Be first to comment Unit sales for first five weeks of the year up 37 per cent on 2008; ‘We are beating Japan' says ChartTrack The UK software market has kicked off 2009 by thrashing last year s ...

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UK - January 2009 sales beating out 2008, surpassing Japan’s sales
GoNintendo — ... a DS or PSP, so hardware sales aren’t driving software sales – although DSi is flying off the shelves. The very sudden decline of PS2 is also a factor. The Japanese market is about twice the size of ours, so there is room for manoeuvre in terms of people who had a DS four years ago and want a new handheld. We need to wait until the middle of the year and have a firm date for DSi’s launch. Then we’ll really know what sort of year we’ll have.” - GfK-ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch Link This entry was posted on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 2:47 pm and is filed under ...

Britain Overtakes Japan To Become World's Second-Biggest Market [Business]
Kotaku — ... There are a number of factors at play here. For starters, while Japanese consumers have already bought their fill of the Nintendo DS and PSP, they're still flying off the shelf in the UK. Secondly, the Wii "phenomenon" shows no signs of abating in Britain, as regular observers of our weekly sales charts are no doubt already familiar with. Not a bad achievement, all things considered, what with the population of Japan being over twice that of the UK and all. UK industry off to a flyer in 2009 [MCV] ...

UK games market to overtake Japan?
Technology: Games blog | guardian.co.uk — ... but early figures for 2009 suggest the UK is likely to overtake the Japanese games market - in revenue terms - this year. But as ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch points out, the Japanese market is in a very different space to the UK. ...

UK game industry beats Japan, takes second place
Joystiq — ... The reality of the Japanese gaming market is rather grim. As the industry continues to tumble in the region, other territories like the UK are climbing the ladder. GfK-ChartTrack reveals that the British software market grew by 26 percent last year - a ...