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 Digg.com Facebook Google Bookmarks N4G Gamerblips del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot.org StumbleUpon I wonder has the general switch from WW2 to a more modern setting in shooters had much to do with it?. ooooooo...controversial! But probably right. Well, the Krauts are now officially not in a recession according to first quarter financial results, so you can see why the UK has fallen behind, as we are very much still in recession.
So no-one has got money to spend, the jobless have begun to attack and rob the rich, and we've all switched to a budget diet of soup and er...polenta (it is dirt cheap you know). The apocalyptic UK of 2009. don't mention the war we have once but i think we got away with it Dont they have censoring problems in Germany, in that they dont like violent Games?
What are they all buying? Mamas Cooking or something? They do. In fact many devs are thinking of upping sticks and leaving if new propsed legislation comes in. Crytek Uk could just become Crytek. Good news for us. I think our accommy is currently being kept afloat by the likes of R*. Ironic really considering all the flac they get.
We'll pull out of recession soon enough. thinkgs are already getting a little bit better. We just need more people to ignore the insane ramblings of the sun and the bloody express. :lol: Beat me to it. Rockstar are keeping our economy afloat?
I've never heard something so absurd in my life.
I'm interested in what the average German gamer is interested in ;D Well, I have recently taken out a bank loan for my new car. So '**** the recession' is what I say. Rockstar don't make that much money! Plus loads goes to Take Two, who are American. Bizarre, Lionhead all goes to MS, Media Molecule goes to Sony etc etc. But yeah, gaming as a creative industry does seem to get shafted in the UK.
Don't get sucked in to believing it's all about confidence though. House prices are still too high, unemployment rising, interest rates unrealistically low.
Germany pulled out of recession because they still have a manufacturing industry and they don't have massive levels of personal debt and an economy built on a housing bubble - they didn't even really have a full on credit crunch!
Sorry, thought this was the FT forum!! Shame they ban all the good games... :? I work for a large American recruitment firm and we are usually a good barometer at to where the market is and how it looks.
It doesnt look good :cry: for us in the UK, I would expect to see an upturn, this time next year.
Sorry to burst bubbles but were fecked in the UK! Hope you lose you job then! :wink: Germanys market will soon decline due to the new laws and regulations that Germany governments are trying to enforce on the Gaming industry. I mean who wants to employ LARGE AMERICANS anyhow? Tell them to stop eating cheesburgers... lard arses! :lol: tis guud yaa tis good as they say in german porn they are the master race after all :wink: :wink: :wink: Germany isn't a bigger market than the UK, GFk Chart-Track just ****ed up their numbers again. Expect a press release tomorrow.
Seriously, these guys are a joke. It's probably going to turn out that actually only about 4 Wiis have been sold worldwide.
EDIT: link: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/germany-overtakes-uk-as-largest-euro-games-market Yeah... The Geman market became the largest in Europe after they invaded the Polish,Czechoslovakian, French, Dutch and Belgian markets saying they where part of the Germans market. Top selling games in Germany are Grand Theft Autobahn, Defence of Castle Wolfenstein, Colin McRaes Nuremburg Rally. »
Yep, another year or so is what most people I know who know a lot more about this than me, you or probably anyone on this site have said.
I was at a wedding on the weekend and a dozen people must've asked what I thought would happen, and they were all surprised that I was quite negative! Colin McRaes Nuremburg Rally - Drive around the forests of WW2 Germany in a VW Beetle, King Panzer even get to control a Messerschmitt Me109.... NO helicopters though :oops: Precisely. Germany - with the largest European economy and third or fourth in the world depending on where you rank China - along with France are now leading the charge economically in terms of European recovery. Germany *does* have a larger economy than the UK. That has been the case for decades. Now that apparently also rings true of the video games niche which is part of the overall larger economy. That Germany also has more people than the UK in a highly developed modern state probably doesn't hurt (although eastern Germany is still experiencing severe economic issues all these years after reunification). Yep, yep and yep to the parts in bold.
Germany does indeed still have manufacturing going on which has helped them be some of the first to benefit from the economic incentives the German state has carried out. That means they actually have something of physical value as opposed to the financial center in London that didn't really produce anything physically tangible, but juggled a lot of numbers and financial speculation.
France also had stricter bank controls than many of other Western nations and this has in part helped offset some of the banking turbulence seen elsewhere which helps explain why Germany and France both saw their economies grow slightly this year.
No one, not even China with it's 8% growth this year, are riding high. In China's case it's because with its huge population and past expectations of double digit growth, it's economy will need to grow by 8-9% just to keep unemployment at bay! Lets see how long that lasts if the proposed manufacturing of 'violent videogames' ban is introduced in Germany. wow!
i would NEVER have guessed that with all the restrictions and stuff. I really couldn't care less to be honest, but in this case the numbers were wrong. The UK is still the biggest European market for games. Which is probably why so many of us are fat.
And unemployed.
(Not me though. I'm a sporty guy with a job. Its probably mostly the Scots.) they wont be for long once the ban on violent video games comes into effect Yeah CVG, further to B_G_G's podt: UPDSTE YOUR STORY LIKE GAMESPOT AND EUROGAMER DID. »
I love provincial mindsets. To each their own though, but just remember that if you do not partake you limit the amount of influence you have.
As for the Scots as a whole being out of shape, would that then render true the stereotype that the English have bad teeth? But you still need us fat Scots to show you English ***** how to play tennis though. NEW BALLS PLEASE :lol: | 
