the global worth of the video industry is estimated at 74 billion dollars (as of 2011). The value of
the british video game industry is an estimated 3.6 billion pounds and also its been shown that there is an estimated 31 million gamers in the uk which just over half of the population. According to the Telegraph paper in the uk 8 out of 10 homes has a games console.
The most popular games console in 2011 is the xbox 360 and the most popular games console of all time is the ps2 with 153.19 million units sold. the number of xbox 360's sold is 57.6 million (as of 30 september 2011) the number of playstation 3's sold is 55.5 million (as of 30 september 2011) and the number of nintendo wii's sold is 88.3 million (as of 1 october 2011)
the relationship between gender and consoles ;
xbox 360 - 11% female and 38% male
playstation 3 - 9% female and 21% male
nintendo wii - 80% female and 41% male
top 5 selling games of all time
1. wii sports ( 76.76 million units)
2. super marion bros (40.24 million units)
3.Tetris (35 million units)
4.mario kart wii (27 million units)
5. wii fit (22.61 million units)
