Comments on: This Just In: Britons Buy Many Games

By: TheDude

TheDude — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:52:43 +0000

Nice to see the gold coins in the image. If any of you haven’t got gold or silver I fear for you.
http://www.kitco.com – look at the historical charts, look at inflation. We’re going into an economic depression!
Buy gold, buy food. The banks engineered it.

By: Orange

Orange — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:27:36 +0000

Good to see the demand is huge, hopefully that will translate to some more political clout for the industry. Fed up of muppets like Keith Vaz being the only voices on gaming in the commons,.

By: Markoff Chaney

Markoff Chaney — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:36:26 +0000

Don’t suck up to us. We are a perversion of everything we were founded to be. An international disgrace. Rampant consumerism is sickening and disregard of others combined with an inability to accept others as they are just makes us worse. (Note – Feel free to apply this to any nation state you desire. Most around the world are applicable. I’d leave, but we don’t have off planet colonies yet…)

At least games are an international language. I love playing with (or virtually killing) people from all countries, even if a pond separates us. Electrons continue to bring us closer together, despite our physical separation.

Really, I just wanted an excuse to quote more Fugazi

Merchandise keeps us in line
Common sense says it’s by design

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:38:10 +0000

Think there are any games in them?

By: Dan Harris

Dan Harris — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:34:38 +0000

Apologies for double post, but having rechecked the article, it’s a single company (1C) shipping 0.98 * 13 tonnes of games a day.

That’s a lot of boxes.

By: Dan Harris

Dan Harris — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:31:49 +0000

@ Wiper:

Agree with you on the disappointing lack of other countries, especially having read Jim’s article on Russia, where consumption is so high that they measure the amount of software sold in tonnes.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:17:16 +0000

What’s striking to me is how small the US market is, comparatively. US GDP is more than 6 times UK GDP and the population is about 5 times. Yet the game market is only 3 times the size, despite the collapse of sterling.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:09:38 +0000

@Steve nice to see someone using UK and England Synonymously, if only it were true ;)

By: phil

phil — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:55:39 +0000

The way the economy is headed, short-term our consumption will go up thanks to more causals trading down from nights out and DVDs (there’s the perception games give more bang for your buck), combined with more causals downloading apps for mobiles and other platforms (something the UK actually seems pretty good at making as well as consuming).

Medium term, our economy currently lacks the capacity to employ a large porportion of our working population, the liquidity crisis has hit us harder than any other front rank economy and will continue to nail down consumer spending, our currency will shortly become the euro and we’ve a significant aging population that seem to be immune to even the Wii’s charms – I’d say Japan’s position was safe.

Long-term – We’ll all be dead (a little joke for all you Keynesians out there.)

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:09:59 +0000

“We buy many, yet the government seems to be failing on a regular basis to recognise the viability of games development in this country.”

Yes, Gordon Brown seems to be more interested in beating the game industry for cheap kicks from ignorant technophobes rather than supporting it.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:05:56 +0000

It’s a shame that “suck up to the Americans” continues to be a viable strategy. Not that I have that much against the US at all (they practically invented the medium in the first place), but I sincerely doubt it’s a coincidence that the formerly globe-trotting Hitman series has confined its latest installation exclusively to the US of A.

Ah well. Better than sucking up to Asia!

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:47:34 +0000

Yeah, provide the references ffs.

How is china doing suppressing piracy? What about the massively over charged austrailians who will be fleeing to digital distribution. South Korea’s starcraft sales must count for something. With real statistics we could apply a per head equation. Average British resident spends £10 a year on games” in 1998 but “£60 in the 2008″, thus by the queens currency the worth of gaming has accelerated to 600% in the british isle

*example statistics pulled out of my arse (just like all good statistics)

Thats analysis. Bleh,