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Future Network - 55% of the UK games market; X-box launch on 14 March

March 2002

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 Home computing, games and entertainment title publisher, Future Network, 48p, is due to report preliminary results this Tuesday (19 March). These should show the rising proportion of revenue now coming from its games titles which represented 38% of total sales at the interim stage.  Future recently released ABC audited circulation figures (for the period ending December) which show that its Official Playstation2 title was the fastest growing monthly consumer title in 2001. It sold 190,000 copies in December, representing 10% of the 1.94m installed base, having averaged sales of 126,000 per month in the second half of 2001. Growth is being driven bya $1billion marketing blitz by the three main console manufacturers as well as a ...

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