FIFA 08 individual format sales

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kamil said:
In UK (Fifa sold about 385,000 units) it looked like this:
PS2 - 44%
Xbox 360 - 26%
PS3 - 20%
others (PSP, Wii, PC and DS) - 10%

PS3 versions sold well compared to Xbox (much better than Madden). PS3 lost in Uk by not much, won in Germany hardly (5th to 6th place in Germany chart), won easily in Spain (3rd to 10th place in Spain chart) and also won in Austalia.
That shows that there is a place for 3rd party games on PS3. At least in Europe.

But possibly if Halo 3 wasn't released on the same week, Xbox Fifa would do a bit bitter.

Playstation is THE platform for football games.  Obviously the PS2 is leading the way in the UK with 44% of the 385k units sold which means that about 170k copies were sold to over 9m PS2 owners.  The 360 did okay selling around 100k copies to around 1.4m owners while the PS3 sold 77k copies to around 385k PS3 owners in the UK; thats an attach ratio of 1 copy of the game for every 5 PS3 owner.  Really big news IMHO.

This is big news and demonstrates that generally Playstation owners will buy football games rather than any other format.  When PES 2008 is released at the end of this month, this will be bigger news seeing as PES is inherently linked with the Playstation brand, hence the PS2 and PS3 bundles that are being released at the end of the month.

The lower priced PES branded PS3 (£299) along with the game should sell really well.