UK retailers confident in strong 2010 games sales

Not that I disagree with you jack but while it is good now for the UK game sellers doesn't that spell trouble in the future? While MW2 sells like hot cakes and dominates everything, what about all the other games out there that need holiday revenue.

I have seen past joystiq post where Game developers have complained UK shops won't give shelf space to games that they feel don't sell. If that is true, less and less developers will feel encouraged to bring their offerings, and while MW2 is the bread and butter now what happens when it isn't that way.

change the speech bubble from 'oh crap' to 'oh bugger' or 'oh bloody hell'
trust blad, it'll be SO much more english..

There's no diversity in the market anymore. As the big box stores (Tesco, the other supermarkets) slowly increase their grip on the expanded vidya games territory, the traditional game stores and smaller independent retailers face a conundrum. How ever are they to maintain turnover, especially with our current economic woes? Without apt thought, we could steal the mantle of ‘broken man of Europe’ from the Greeks, the Irish, or the Spanish. How to avoid this fate if your business is games? Well, the answer is clear: focus all energies on sure sellers.

New Super Mario Bros Wii is a sure seller. Duty to Call: Combat Warfare is a sure seller. Muramasa isn't, so that means shelf space isn't guaranteed. Finding a copy of that fail copy of King of Fighters is nearly impossible. Or maybe my poor eyesight is blinded by all the electabuzz from the latest Acivision plastic cash-in.

Games seem to be regressing from the glory days of 1999-2003, and all bets are hedged on safe bets and safe bets only. You can see this with all the vulgar thrusting a Game employee is forced to employ just to get your interest peaked in whatever sports game EA are trying to shill. Anything unique is ostracised, and everything vaguely foreign, aka Japanese, is designated to an obnoxious backend with all the PC games, circa 1999. If it’s not Nintendo or a Capcom mainstay, then you have no chance of getting decent shelf space. To see great games like Space Invaders Extreme 2 coddled together in a dusty corner with used copies of Theme Hospital is a travesty.

This survey is nothing more than empty bravado and MVC is a known to be a tawdry rag that nobody considers a useful source. With debt increasing ever further, the recession deepening, and the public suffering because of it, to say you can be positive about 2010, in terms of vidya games sales and what games are, in fact, produced, is nothing more than wishful thinking. Some would go further and suggest such claims are naïve, while others would even tip the hat into stupidity.

Just wondering, what rifles are the two guards on the left carrying?

Holiday 2009 - Season of the Best games.