No, in France there is no this option ^^

So it is Sony Spain who is doing it due to the bad economy, people can't excuse spending 400 € on a "simple" console but if it's only 20 € a month...

It's an interesting offering. I wonder if there have been any/many cases of people not maintaining their repayment schedule. It's great though that there doesn't seem to be a premium for customers for opting for this purchase method (the PS4 is €399 normally in Spain too, right?).

We don't have anything similar that I've seen in Ireland. Some individual shops do financing deals, but they generally have interest rates about 20-25% per annum. Some places do give you about 6 months to pay the balance though, so I suppose if you paid €100 up front and then €50 per month, that might be possible here.

Pretty decent sales for a second tier country. What is suprising is how consistent the sales seem. No siginifcant slowdowns

400 euros is a lot for them, the unemployment rate in spain hits 26%. Kinda sick.

Yes, the PS4 is 399 € here (although some stores sell it for a little less, ofc).

Well, I think it has more to do with the ones that still have a job.

How do you explain to the rest of your family that you have spend 400 € to play games when your *cousin, uncle, whatever family member* has problems to pay the rent? Telling them that it's only 20 € a month is less problematic to explain.

Even after factoring how badly the unemployment and the general economic situation is in Spain? The other countries you listed are doing better, especially the UK and Germany.

I hope Spain can turn around the bad economy. That unemployment rate is insane.

Our 26% is not as bad as every other country. When Spain was doing well 10 years ago we had around a 10% unemployment rate. Spain always have more % than every normal country in Europe, it's chronic. There's also a lot of what we call here "dinero negro" in families pockets, (I don't know how to translate it in english), that is maintaining somehow the actual situation, at least for now. In conclusion, 26% is as bad as France having around 10-11%, not strictly worse.

On topic, 275k for Spain, impressive numbers. I bet France and Germany should be around 400-450k each. Italy despite being as big as those countries, probably should be around the same as Spain (a country with 20mill less people), maybe even less. Counting UK must be around 850k alone, those 5 countries sums around 2'3-2'4 million. If, according to VGC, PS4 have sold around 3 mill in Europe, that leaves around 600-700k for the rest of Europe. That puts some perspective about the situation of European sales.