UK game industry beats Japan, takes second place

i question the accuracy of this article, evidence? wii/ds alone should massively surpass UK. while there are several developers in UK they rarely publish the actual games meaning they dont make the majority of the profits. seems like they're playing around with the numbers.

not to mention UK had a really big year, GTA4/Fable2/LBP (all uk developers).

flanker22: its sales, not developers.

I think you're just dying. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us.

"Don't worry, it happens to the best of us."

Ha! That means I'm the best! XP

UK will offically own when they start saying Teenage Mutant NINJA Turtles instead of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

We'll say Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when you start pronouncing 'herbs' with an h.

I'll start pronouncing herbs with an 'h' when you admit that it's 'skedule, not 'shedule' (I'm referring to the pronunciation.

Ok, but "route sounds like root. Not like rout - which is a different word altogether :D

I agree whole heartedly with deadpool

I'm from the UK and I don't know anyone who calls them Hero Turtles or says 'shedule'.

Lol, what about Eyerack and Eyeran :)

LOL, Maverick Saturn is totally right. It is a-raq (short a) and a-ran (short a again)

@the_pop "I'm from the UK and I don't know anyone who ... says 'shedule'."

Sigh, state of Britain today -- the English is SCHedule; guess all your friends have been Americanised with SKedule.

Do you also say LEWtenant instead of LEFtenant for Lieutenant, missle instead of missile, aluminum instead of aluminium, airplane instead of aeroplane?

Tomadda, tomato, potadda, potato, etc. :p

lol a-raq.

it is eee-ruck. it's arabic, and there is no e vowel in arabic language. not eye-rack, or however dumb americans say it.

And also, according to the source, they are claiming that in *unit* sales Britain is ahead of Japan. Coming ahead of Japan in total sales *revenue* (which I should think dramatically depends on currency fluctuation) is something they're predicting for the coming year, not stating for the past one.

In other words, more games are apparently sold in Britain than in Japan, but they're cheaper.

Have to say I still find this pretty surprising - gaming is still not really mainstream here, and it's very rare that you see an adult playing games on a train for instance. (Kids? All the time.) Kind of wonder what those more, cheaper games are... the crazy frog game didn't sell THAT much...

That just proves we are more game nerdy :D Ha!

i would pay soooo much for a british accent.

Well unless we all dump our old PAL TVs and go Hi-Def, not for awhile.

I has gone HD.

I have an HD TV too. A Braiva. It's nice. VOTE ME UP TOO FOR NO GOOD REASON! :D

Some say.... he's the best one eyed Scottish idiot.... IN THE WORLD!

Crap, something in my brain confuses UK with Europe.

BURN HIM!

Roflmao, UK is a continent is it? Lol

Well, in the case of Borwn, it's more being dull and doing goldfish impressions. Why DOES he do that mouth thing he does after each sentance?

GOLDFISH! THANKYOU! I've been annoyed by that stupid..... thing for ages, and now I have the perfect way to describe it!

Well - there wasn't anyone else willing to step forward, so there wasn't a lot of choice. He's ok, IMO. Not brilliant, but no worse than the Tories. And less smug than Blair. They're all much of a muchness really, but I'd rather have Gordon Brown than that oily git David Cameron.

I think many people have been warming to him since the economy went in the tank. Certainly saved Labour from otherwise certain demise

Bobulous: so you go by "oily git", personal attacks, rather than policies?

Gordon Brown sold off Britain's gold reserve at the bottom of the market (and pre announced it which drove the price down even further) to cash it in, raided the private pension industry to such an extent that he has destroyed private industries' pensions, encourage the housing price boom in order to get capital gains tax, presided over a credit boom to get sales tax (VAT) -- another consequence of low interest rates was the run-away credit that has created the credit crunch -- and the Labour government borrowed to its limits over the last twelve years even thought it had record tax income ... and for what?

For the first time in history the average salary of people employed by the state is greater than private industry, in many areas of the country the number of people employed by the state outnumbers the number of people employed in private industry; and public sector pensions are protected and topped up by the state. So bearing in mind that the taxes of people in the private sector pay for the public sector ... we can see where all the money has gone!

Have you also noticed that Gordon Brown no longer says things like "We spend seven times as much on NHS as the previous government"? It's because people realise it's not seven time better; it's worse value for money for tax payers.

That's before we even start to consider his war mongering predecessor, or the current debacle.

Yup. Labour aren't perfect, but the Tories are just as bad. How many unpopular policies did they pass? Or industries did they sell off? How many people did they put out of work? I seem to recall they mismanaged the economy in the early 90s too. There's not a lot to choose from between Labour and the Tories these days, but yes, I'd still much rather have Brown in charge than Cameron any day.

Trying to appeal to the British market! Ha! That's an amusing concept.

Doomed to fail of course, because trying to localize a popular product from aboard hardly ever works. Pimp My Ride UK has to be the most painful show ever put on TV, until they finish the American Top Gear.

Us Ukadians are just as bad, so don't think we're any easier, basically, if its football / soccer, it will sell like hotcakes :D

You do realise Britain has contributed to gaming aswell? Goldeneye, Donkey Kong and Little Big Planet come to mind.

... Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie, Grand Theft Auto, Fable

"I hope this doesn't mean more crazy frog racer and soccer games"

You don't have to play 'em. BTW, Football/Soccer games ARE 10x better than American "Football" games.