Germans ditching PC gaming for mobile phones and Wii

GERMANS ARE getting bored of playing around on their computers and, in a shift which makes really very little difference activity wise, are switching to game consoles and mobile phones instead.

It makes a difference to business though, according to the German games software association (BIU), which said today that sales for games consoles, like Sony's Playstation, Nintendo's Wii, and the Vole's Xbox, had skyrocketed by a wunderbar 38 per cent in 2007, bringing total sales revenues to 904 million euros.

The box-counters reckon that, while sales of PC games have dropped by some three per cent to only 458 million Euros in the last year, sales of games for German consoles have shot up by 21 per cent to 1.36 billion euros ($2.1 billion).

The BIU report says the mobile market is the fastest growing segment of the German gaming industry. Mobile phone games saw a 65 per cent rise in sales bringing revenues to 360 million euros. µ