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Here in Argentina the most well-known gaming product is the Playstation 2.

From all my personal experiences I dare to say that this is because it is extremely easy to hack in order to play pirate games. Truth is no one here gives a flying f*ck about paying for anything you can get for free, and I mean literally nobody, I'm like the only person I know besides one friend that actually buys things like videogames, movies and music. Even people that I know has real lots of money and actively spoil their kids still buys pirate games, downloads illegal music, etc (But hey, their TV, their car and their house are huge). Wii and Xbox360 are also common here again because of piracy, but not nearly as much as PS2. I have a few friends who have PS3s tho but that's where legality ends, since they only buy the yearly CoD and Fifa (Which are the strongest IPs here I think), and maybe GTA V. Needless to say, PS is the most popular brand here, despite many people only getting PS3 and now PS4 for a few dudebro games. 

Fun fact: When an adult here talks about a console, whether it's a PS, a Wii, a 3DS or an Xbox, they refer to it as "the play" (An obvious acronim to Playstation).

Fun fact 2: Gaming shops seems to actually need to clarify that they have non-pirate games with a sign in a window or the door saying something like "Original games". I've seen this more often that I'd like to admit.

So, which is the most popular console in your country and why do you think it is that way?



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GBA.

Since I declared my house an independent nation, GBA ownership has risen to 88,000 per square mile. That's high by any account.



The one that's easier to hack.



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The Xbox 360 easily.



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You are from Argentina? Wow that's cool! I thought we where very few here!

Anyway what you said is the truth. Paying for games is something weird here. Why pay for it when you can pirate it!



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Right now, sales-wise, PS4.

Active install base as of now, probably still PS3.

Most popular in history, in LT sales, PS2.

The "la play" phenomenon applies here too.

(Spain)

Why is it that way? I don't know, I guess it's because gaming was super-niche until the original PlayStation popularised it. So it's like Nintendo in the US, there are many people who grew with them. Add to that the fact that we probably don't care much for "family-friendly" (Nintendo) and that the services MS offers here are not as good as in the US, and you have PlayStation dominating. Wii still did very well here, though.



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Idk, Someone do Canada since I can't find the stats



                  

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offical market right now: Wii U, older and cheapper. Than PS4 and X1,

last gen: first was Wii, than X360, in the end PS3.

All time: PS2/DS.


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Anfebious said:
You are from Argentina? Wow that's cool! I thought we where very few here!

Anyway what you said is the truth. Paying for games is something weird here. Why pay for it when you can pirate it!



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