Sony's coherent marketing strategy

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rocketpig said:

Game_boy said:
"It's just a fact that the U.S has a much higher % of its population using the internet than the rest of the world, including europe, japan, asia, etc. The implication is that if not that many people are using the internet, then they don't need ethernet cords. Sorry."

This is the general population. The gamer subset would be a much higher figure.

Internet use penetration (% of population)

Sweden 75.6%
Australia 71.9%
US 69.7%
Japan 67.1%
UK 62.3%

Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm

Swedish internet users: ~6.8m

Australian internet users: ~14.7m

Japanese internet users: ~85.5m

UK internet users: ~37.9m

Combined 1,2,4, & 5 users: ~144.9m

United States internet users: ~209.9m

Just putting things in perspective. The US, while in third place, still has roughly 45% more internet users than the entirety of #1, 2, 4, & 5 combined.

And what do absolute values matter for here, exactly? Besides, those statistics are for the general population, not for gamers (which is what matters here).