A report on new information revealed today that suggests that 2009 has become the second-strongest year in the history of videogame sales in the UK, with Nintendo's Wii selling in excess of 18 million units in the UK alone.

Nintendo Wii stormed the field with software sales of over 18 million units in the UK, retaining the title of Number One software format by units sold. Sony's PlayStation 3 also saw a dramatic increase by 14 per cent of software units sold, from 10.4 million units in 2008 to 11.9 million units in 2009. Overall, in 2009 UK consumers bought a total of 74.6 million videogame units - which works out at more than one per person in the UK.

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