2008 European Video Game Market by Country (GfK)

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MANUELF said:

TomaTito said:

mrstickball said:
Awesome that it's out! Great find, BKK!

Interesting to see that the Spanish market declined YoY, despite strong growth everywhere else.

Also, suecia = Sweden, correct?

The crisis has hit Spain the hardest amongst all the rest of the countries.

Why?

Why? Because Spain is different ... It's hard to explain really, not sure myself. It's similar to what has happened around the globe but with synergies on other factors. For example, the majority of people buy their houses over here, it's the first thing that you do, it's not like in Germany where there is a healthy rent market. The rent market is small because of laws that protect the tenants more than landlords, so few people decide to rent their houses out and speculated, invested in them.