Ps3 sales in Portugal .

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fishamaphone said: More or less all of Europe gets game releases on the same day. They work on the same TV and electricity standards. Someone who bought a console in Germany can play games bought in the UK with a controller he bought in Sweden.

Yes, but that's because its a law. In fact for the DVD they originally planned more regions, till they learned that such a medium would be illegal in Europe. And this killed this point a bit. From the view point of a US company Europe could be ddescribed more as a crazy bunch of small parts, that each has their own demands. As an example: try to release a film in Germany that is not dubbed into German and you can only target for a very small niche. Under normal circumstances everything must be dubbed. And you must be careful who you hire for the dub, because most bigger actors have their dedicated german voice. They must hire this dubbing actors or they will loose many customers. But you are totally missing the point. If you say this console is big in Europe this has in reallity no meaning. It is much more important to watch the different markets. Leading console of Germany, France, Italy or UK has much more meaning than the European number. Why? Well, if you have 60% market share in Europe, it would be rather stupid to put your resources to the whole EU. It is much more sensible to watch the numbers closely. For countries whith 10 to 20% you don't need significant resources, it is much more important to target the countriers, where you have 80% market share.

fishamaphone said: Hell, here in Israel, we get stuff later than *Europe,* and I wouldn't think twice about someone calling Israel part of the European market.

Well, that's another difference too. In fact if I think about Europe it means something like the Euro Zone and perhaps Swiss but nothing else (No UK is on the outside too). I think this is one of the biggest difficulties for the EU too. While they made the EU bigger and bigger, the people no longer achknowledge this idea.