Third-gen consoles will help video game sales rise to £4.643 billion this year, eclipsing combined music and DVD/video sales for the first time, according to a report from retail analysts Verdict Research. The report estimates that the video game market will grow by £1.37 billion this year, a 42 percent year-on-year rise, helped by a fierce Christmas war between third-gen, online-capable consoles from Nintendo, Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). In the same period, music and video sales will grow by just 0.6 percent, or £30 million to £4.461 billion, it is predicted.
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