Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7814272.stm

Key Pullout:

"Figures from ELSPA suggest that video games for the Nintendo Wii made up almost a quarter of all software sales, with more than 20m games sold. This was an increase of 112% on the previous year. 

Software for the firm's handheld game console - the Nintendo DS - also proved popular, with more than 19.1m copies sold. 

Games for Microsoft's Xbox 360 also did well, with a 51% rise in sales. 

And there was some good news for Sony. 

Sales of software for its PlayStation 3 console role by 145%, selling 10.4 million units - more than double the 4.2m games sold in 2007."

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They also have a little chat with Molyneux, though he's talking out his arse a little bit (nothing exciting for 09?).

Anyways, £4.03 billion spent on videogames last year, that's quite nice growth especially when considering the state of the economy.

Also looking at this graph (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y24/konangrit/UKmarketevothroughsep08.jpg) shows the growth of the UK market since 1995. (Credit to BKK2 for finding me the graph a while back).

Good all round, PS3 saw ridiculous growth.

In reference to the following, I am a UK resident and my household pays the TV license.

With regards to technology, the BBC regurgitate whatever any other news agency posts (especially Apple and Microsoft press releases, which the BBC seem to think are all the public cares about). I have serious respect for their general coverage, but the BBC are about 10 years behind in understanding technology.

Just look at their iPlayer: they could have made it quite open using BitTorrent and their OWN VIDEO CODEC, Dirac. Instead they went for always-on, proprietary P2P that sucks bandwidth and takes over your computer, Windows DRM, sucky file formats, viewing restrictions, time restrictions, and the need to use their proprietary viewer.

 Erm... you can't download the BBC iPlayer anymore, it's all streaming through Flash video. They've given the technology to ITV and CH4.

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