UK video games market at lowest weekly value since 2007

Dropped below £15? Crumbs!

In fairness, there’s not been a big release for ages, and we get more this summer than we’ve had for years – Batman, Ghostbusters, Wii Sports Resort, Punch-Out!!, inFAMOUS…

Given the economic climate, it was always going to fall a bit, but the lack of really big games has obviously had a significant impact. I fully expect things to pick up very soon.

Ever since the mdeia,micro soft and sony started attacking pc gaming the entire gaming Industry has been on a decline.
Pc gaming numbers is regaining and growing fast in this ression too.

you ever hear about the console game crash well it never happened on the pc, I wonder why?

http://www.cracked.com/article_15732_life-after-video-game-crash.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

history has way of repeating it’s self!

“you ever hear about the console game crash well it never happened on the pc, I wonder why?”

Could that possibly be because the PC as we know it barely existed in 1983? It was during the early 80s that the IBM Compatible PC (PCs as we know them today) came into being and started to become the standard. Up until the late 80s there were still a considerable amount of different personal computers, causing some of the same sort of problems that the numerous console clones had caused around the time of the video game crash (by the way, notice the name… video game crash, not console game crash as you called it).

Some of the personal / home computers around at the time were:

Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple Macintosh, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga, Commodore Plus/4, IBM PC, NEC PC-9801, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Tandy TRS-80… and a ton more bit players.

pc gaming was doing fine back then

http://www.destructoid.com/adventure-quest-the-play-based-on-80-s-pc-gaming-132567.phtml

games like masters of orin and space control was cools

Masters of Orin? Space Control?

The video game crash of ’83 was something that happened in the US, it had no noticeable effect in the UK and probably the rest of Europe because everyone was using home computers like the Spectrum and C64. It may have been mentioned in the magazines but it wasn’t some global event.

The good old days. I still have my old speccy.

I think I have a Commodore Plus4 somewhere too.

I still surprise people when I tell them I learnt to touch type on a rubber keyed Spectrum!