As 2009 kicked off the UK High Street was still in the grips of what some are calling the worst recession in living memory. Retailers were going under, we lost Woolies from the High Street and a lot of people were getting annoyed by EUK’s warehouse.
On top of that we had the industry in uproar about the government’s Change4Life Campaign, Nintendo were making worrying noises about the Japanese market, Sony was losing money and Microsoft… well, things weren’t so bad for Microsoft, with Xbox 360 sales up year-on-year.
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