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To: limtex who wrote (110601)	1/9/2002 4:33:52 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

it is kind of funny that people promote all these funky high-speed mobile apps (i like the video game played by the guy in the taxicab against the teenyboppers in Japan), when most people still connect at home using 28K modem. what is wrong with this picture. baldmer's cute, though.

To: limtex who wrote (110601)	1/9/2002 8:30:49 PM
From: Cooters	Respond to of 152472

UK video games, console sales hit new peak in 2001 A market just waiting, with fallow spectrum, for some mobile gaming....... LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Sales of video games, leisure software products and games consoles in Britain reached an all time high of 1.6 billion pounds ($2.31 billion) in 2001, up 36 percent from a year ago, industry data showed on Thursday. The European Leisure Software Publishers Association, a UK industry body, said 51.2 million units of games hardware and software were sold in the year, up 21 percent, thanks to launches of two new consoles -- the Game Cube from Nintendo <7974.T> and the Xbox from Microsoft <MSFT.O>. Top Selling games included "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and "Tomb Raider 4" by Eidos <EID.L>, "WWF Smackdown" by THQ <THQI.O>, "Driver 2" by Infogrames <IFOE.PA> and "The Sims" by Electronic Arts Inc (EA) <ERTS.O> and "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2" by Activision <ATVI.O>. Also among the favourites was "Harry Potter - The Philosopher's Stone" by EA, which went Platinum in just five weeks, the fastest seller of the year. The association said the total value of console hardware sales rose by 121 percent, reaching a record high of 567 million pounds on four million consoles sold during the year. The boom in consoles inevitably fed through to software sales, which were mostly games, with a record 30.5 million units of console software sold worth 711 million pounds, it said. The market for home computer software also fared better than the previous year with the volume sold up 10 percent to 16.7 million units whilst the value of sales remained static at 346 million pounds. 19:01 01-09-02