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Video Games: UK's top entertainment form

article published on 6 November, 2008

According to research by retail experts, video games will prove to be Britain's number one form of entertainment in 2008, beating music and other video products for the first time. Verdict Research predicts the video games market will grow by £1.37 billion ($2.19 billion), about 42% in 2008. The figure outstrips music and video sales which were expected to stagnate anyway. The entire ... [ read the full article ]

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ZippyDSM
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_ 		7. November 2008 @ 08:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Video games is a growing market with no ends in sight just yet, as stagnation grows and fads/trends dwindle it will be hit hard from trying to sell the same level of crap to uninterested masses...but they have a way to go yet...

And music is not harmed by, at least not enough to make it drop to its knees its business model is dieing and they are wanking off like nothing has changed.

Also gaming is not cheap and bad/mediocre games have less "longevity" than a bad/mediocre movie, the way the game market works they sale high to retail outfits that then "move around" the stock and then bleed it off wholesale when it becomes "worthless" compound that with the high price to the end user that are able to buy s much buy selling off their old games...its a nasty setup that when it hits it peak will be nothing but bottom past that....
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_ 		7. November 2008 @ 12:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The fact that these "retail experts" included hardware in the figures for video games tells me that they shouldn't be called "experts" at all. Morons like this should be fired for spewing garbage statistics for the public.
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