21.01.2009

Sales of video games reached in Germany in 2008 with 695 million euros, a new record level. Consumers invested about 25.5 percent more for console software to the year 2007. "This recovery owes the industry innovative game concepts and the successful development of new audiences," said Ulrike Altig, managing director of Media Control GfK. At the same time, increased the sales volume based on the weekly market panel of media control GfK to 18.7 million units - an increase of 18.6 percent year-on-year.

Altig continues: "Take advantage of the software market was especially by the excellent performance of the next-generation consoles." For example, the software market share of the Nintendo Wii in total sales volume of all games at 16.0 percent. 2007 were still 7.5 percent. At Sony's PlayStation 3 in the reporting period accounted for 12.5 percent of all software paragraphs. The two stationary consoles rose to number three and four. Fifth place with 7.9 percent went to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Our software is the market leader Nintendo DS with 6.6 million games sold, or 35.0 per share.

Game consoles and fitness - a previously unthinkable rather Connection - is now successfully combined. With "Wii Fit" landed a novel concept behind the topseller "Mario Kart Wii" on the second place in the sales statistics of the past year. "Video games is the final leap into the living room has succeeded," says Ulrike Altig. Third place occupied "Dr. Kawashima: More brain-jogging". "Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA 4)", based on the Seven raced, comes as one of two titles of the top ten is not the Nintendo forge.

With the PC games were the three podium positions to a roleplaying classics: "Wrath of the Lich King", the latest add-on to "World of Warcraft", won gold sovereign. Silver and bronze sprang for the original version of "WoW" and "WoW - The Burning Crusade out.