Let's hear it for the UK and their support of videogames! The Daily Telegraph is reporting that more money was spent on videogames in 2009 than on films. In the twelve months to the end of September 2009, a whopping £1.73 billion was spent on videogames data company GFK Chart-Track says, but only around £1 billion was spent on movie tickets and £198 million spent on film titles released on DVD and Blu-ray.
WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
Or wait, we're actually number three. The British seem to enjoy watching television (including DVD sales and "cable" subscriptions) and listening to music more. Come on guys, not only do you call soccer by the wrong name, but you're gonna let television beat out gaming. Pull it together!
Video games bigger than film [The Daily Telegraph, via GamePolitics]
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10:00 AM on 01.03.2010 | 
"along with the cost of the license and satellite subscriptions"
sky tv ftw!
That said you guys let Britney Spears break Top 75 of 2009 thrice. What the hell guys?
And isn't gaming a lot more expensive in Britain too?
I don't live in Britain, I live in Denmark but it's more expensive here compared to the US prices. Modern Warfare 2 was around 400 kroner. That's about 75 dollar$
But still we didn't even give Britney the time of day three times over. Just sayin'.
@David Bergendorff Hstbo
Yeah I know in my experiences with importing LPs it's usually cheaper for me to find an imported copy in the states and pony up the extra cash because it's "rare" than to buy it from the source in the UK. I'd imagine videogames aren't much different.
It's not a matter of who did it first it's who does it best.
...oh wait.
does it best indeed! lol I hope you aren't giving MLS as an example there?
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and as proof of this there are more countries in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) than in the United Nations. In most of the world, they call the game “football.” But, here in the United States, we call it soccer. How did this name come to be? During the nineteenth century, the game of “football” or soccer was played at British public schools and colleges with each school having its own rules. The first set of standardized soccer rules was published in 1862 which helped graduates of the different schools play together. The English Football Association was founded in 1863 and the game was called “association football” to distinguish it from rugby football and the “ruggers” that played that game. Charles Wreford-Brown, the former England captain is usually credited with inventing the term “soccer” as an abbreviation for “association football.” While in most countries the game is still known as football, in the United States (and Canada) the game is called soccer to distinguish it from American football.
Punching now!
It's either football or broken legs.
My giant football players can break legs a lot better than your wimpy little football players.
"Haff time mul-tye balll"
;)
"While in most countries the game is still known as football, in the United States (and Canada) the game is called soccer to distinguish it from American football."
In Canada the game is called soccer to distinguish it from Canadian football as well as American football. If that sentence ever saw the light of day in Saskatchewan you would be chewed apart by an angry Roughriders fan!
Don't get pissy with me. I didn't write it.
British music sucks mostly, but it has it's ups. Like...Something. Libertines?
Still, awesome.
Great comeback.
But yeah I don't care that TV took the top spot, I'd much rather watch Doctor Who than play videogames anyway
And yeah it is football
If you can't find any good American (I'm assuming you're from the states) tv shows, you're not trying hard enough. And while the U.K. has some great shows, they also have crud just like Jersey Shore.
I can't say that I love games more than movies, but I'm glad the industry is doing so well.
A) The IT Crowd is almost cancerous to your health.
B) Like HEL105 said if you can't find any good American tv shows you're either blind, live in a cave (a cave that only gets BBC apparently), or you're looking for something to bitch about like every other American cynic.
"most supermarkets cut the price to £33, with Morrisons (crappy low-end supermarket, typically very grotty inside and borderline retarded staff) offering it for £26"
£26? I missed that bargain. May brave catching smallpox and head to the nearest store to see if it's still a steal.
heh im not falling for that one :)
"......typically very grotty inside and borderline retarded staff....."
A bit better than ASDA then. Usually - whenever I have been dragged by the bollocks there - I have to make sure not to touch anything the knuckle dragging Neanderthals that work or shop there have for fear of catching the urge to fuck my close relations.
"We take Manchester United and Manchester City and created Team Manchester"
lol what was tht an advert for anyway?
Kind of like how non-political people voted in the US elections in '08 just to vote against whatever party they didn't like.
TV is number one because it requires the minimum amount of effort for the majority of the dead-eyed public.