Video games are in Germany's most popular leisure media. Consumers can choose from a huge range to choose software. "269 million euros, the sales of console software in the first quarter," said Ulrike Altig, Director of Media Control GfK. "About 7.2 million games were January-March sales," said Altig continues.

"For the first time are the details of the overall market statistics from" remarked Tanja iron, responsible project manager at Media Control GfK, an. Iron explained: "Based on the weekly market panel of media control GfK was an extrapolation. This allows a more accurate picture of the software market. Unfortunately, due to the changed data to a previous year will renounce."

Leader in software, the Nintendo DS with 29.8 percent market share in the total sales volume of all the games. 2.2 million DS games were in the first three months of this year on the shop counter. On Nintendo Wii accounted for 20.6 percent of all software paragraphs. The Sony Double PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PlayStation 3 (PS3) reached 17.3 and 16.8 per cent share of the total quantity of all game sales. Microsoft's Xbox 360 has secured 10.2 percent.

The top seller for Wii, PS3 and Co.

In the quarterly charts for the Wii introduces "Wii Fit" to "Mario Kart Wii" and "Wii Play". On the other two consoles, the latest generation are part of five of the "Resident Evil" series set the tone. Seats two and three are swapped. While on PS3 "FIFA 09" second and "GTA 4" occupied the third rank, is the racing game on Xbox 360 before the soccer simulation into the goal.

On the DS is the platform of "Mario Kart DS", "Dr. Kawashimas brain-jogging" and "Dr. Kawashima: More brain-jogging". The list for Sony's PlayStation Portable gasoline emits scent: Behind "GTA: Liberty City Stories" followed by "Need For Speed" and "GTA: Vice City."