Where once there was speculation that the could be about to overtake as the world's second largest games market, we now hear that Blighty is slipping down the ranking.

According to the latest reports, has just become Europe's biggest purchaser of videogame wares, when country to country were compared by Chart Track.

GI.biz report that UK games sales dropped 20 percent in the first half of 2009, with Germany moving up a place in the rankings.

French and Spanish game sales also decreased, although sales were actually up in Sweden, Holland and Portugal. Fit is apparently Europe's biggest release so far this year.

By Luke Guttridge