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Wii boosts UK games sales, music resilient (Reuters)

 

Published 1/7/2009 at Yahoo! News: Personal Technology

Reuters - British retailers sold a record combined number of DVDs, games and music in 2008 despite the economic gloom, boosted by the popularity of Nintendo's Wii and single downloads, trade bodies said on Wednesday. (link)

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