Chart-Track: Germany not as big as UK

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alfredofroylan on 17 August 2009

Chart Track reported that Germany was a bigger market than the UK, but now they admited that they used incorrect data for the report.

Gfk Chart-Track in the UK has contacted GamesIndustry.biz to admit that the press release it issued earlier today had been written using incorrect data. The company is expected to release a correction shortly. It is understood that Germany is not a bigger games market than the UK.

This is the second time in as many weeks that GfK Chart-Track data has been publicly questioned. Last week, Nintendo contacted GamesIndustry.biz following confusion over UK sales figures for the first half of the year.

http://gamepolitics.com/2009/08/17/report-german-game-market-not-bigger-uk-after-all

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Munkeh111 on 17 August 2009

Who cares anyway, the UK will be much bigger soon as Germany's population declines and they ban violent game

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johnsobas on 17 August 2009

isn't the reason for the confusion because of the wii numbers being wrong to begin with? Adding 500k in sales changed things quite a bit in the big picture of UK sales. It looked as if the UK market had shrunk 50%.

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