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Riccitiello - Negative comps to continue until June

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EA CEO John Riccitiello has predicted that negative comps for the industry will continue until June.

The company boss said that retail was continuing to show wary behaviour to stocking games products, instead favouring other sectors.

US games sales dropped 17 percent year-over-year in March, down to $1.43 billion from $1.72 billion in March 2008.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.

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