Interest in the Games might be at an all time high - but games as a whole aren't keeping our interest, new figures suggest.
UK video game retailers have suffered their worst week in history after sales dipped to the lowest total on record.
Just £8.4m of boxed software was sold in the UK, MCV reported.
While that total does not include download games or App stores, it is the smallest figure since records began.
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Just 394,000 games were sold in the past seven days.
The UKIE/GfK chart said that the number one game was Sega's official London 2012 tie-in.