UK game industry shrank 18% in 2009

@ Big_K-lashy sorrrry gov'nor

Replace afternoon tea with afternoon Wii...

nothing new the entire worlds pretty much like this i hope it starts getting better

@Oneligas. Wow, your amazingly originality and witty insult has really impressed me and everybody else thats going to read your amazing and funny comment. Please, tell me how you can think of such fantastic lines? You're an idiot. I assume from your comment you're a little immature boy that actually knows very very little. I pity people with minds like yours... This websites about gaming and if you're that pathetic you can't even stick to the subject matter then what are you doing wasting your time? Don't embarrass America or whatever country you are from by acting like a small minded little idiot.

Games are a bit expensive nowadays irregardless. It's bad enough that Britain's economy isn't that good now compared to the other countries. It's all Gordon Brown's fault!

this doesn't mean its that bad in the UK. it will really be bad when you read about the economy cutting into the tea and crumpet industry in the UK.

@ Bashers79 - According to a few sites, a game that costs you 30 Pounds would cost us around 48 Dollars. Considering we pay 60 Dollars for games I think you can stop your QQing.

that's bad news hope it all gets better soon

Well, lots of eagerly awaited games got pushed back to 2010 which might have contributed to some losses. In addition, the number of console units sold might have declined due to recession and the revenue generated by these could have further declined due to price cuts.

hardly surpriseing considering we pay through the nose for everything. I get fed up of reading comments from Americans b*tching about how much they have to pay for things, you don't know how good you've got it.

recent recession probably didn't help there either

damn thats alot of money

wow wii is definatelly leaving its mark ,, marching to 70 million pretty soon ,

uk is good people. i love they way they talk. im sure sales will bounce back next year

I think these stories about decreases in game sales of hardware and software are directly related to the rather dry releases we had in 2009 compared to those of 2008, and 2008 had one of the strongest line-up of games ever, which really helps holiday sales of games being that nearly half of industry sales take place in the 4th quarter sure we had a small handful of quality titles this 4th quarter, like Borderlands, Dragon Age, Modern Warfare 2, and Left 4 Dead 2, and Uncharted 2, but that line-up of games isn't going to push software and hardware like last years line-up of hot titles, like Dead Space, Resistance 2, Gears of War 2, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Fable 3, Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, Call of Duty: WaW, Left 4 Dead, Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, Tomb Raider Underworld, Tom Clancy's Endwar, and Persona 4 I think both the quality and quantity of the games released have a dramatic impact of game sales, and not just for pushing games sales but getting people out to by the hardware as well part of the reason I think 2009's sales are down though is because publishers didn't want a repeat of 2008's 4th quarter, 'cause even though sales were up, we had so many great games released in the 4th quarter that some companies didn't reach their expected sales due to all the competition of having so many quality titles released at once, ironically to avoid this EVERYONE just decided to release these games in the 1st quarter of 2010 instead

Oh Noes!

Great... :/