Diomedes1976 on 13 February 2007
superchunk said:
Stromprophet said:
1. No it is not. Japan is half NA and half of Europe. NA and Europe are almost even, but recently (last year) Europe in total has purchased more PS2s than NA.
2. I can find you a Wii right now, where do you live. It's simple actually, no it's not sold out. You just have to look harder.
1. 2006 totals, according to vgcharts, not just the PS2 btw, there are more systems.
Europe - 17m hardware for about 810m people (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm)
That means 2% of Europe's population has a game system of some kind.
NA - 26m hardware for about 335m people (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats2.htm)
That means 8% of NA's population has a game system of some kind.
Japan - 14m hardware for about 128m (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan)
That means 11% of Japan's population has a game system some kind.
This shows a couple of things.
A. NA is by far the largest market.
B. Europe is only larger than Japan due to have nearly 8x the population. Therefore, Europe is a much smaller market and will not enable the PS3 to dominate anything. Any idea why all three systems launch there last? Because they are a smaller market....maybe?
2. I live in Tucson, Arizona. Any internet site you query for systems in stock, will be outdated by a day, and only show numbers those stores may have received today. Unless I got there at open and waited all day or until they brought them out I would not be able to get one. I am not going to do that. I can wait until later next month when I should be able to go into some store and find one in stock.
Ejem ejem .....European Union doesnt have 810 million people but 450.By the way ,the market is extremely small in the East Europe for now and those countries are 170 million people .The bulk of the european market is the Europe of the 12 ,core of the EU ,and countries as UK ,Germany ,France ,Spain and Italy ...then other small markets as Greece ,Portugal ,Austria ,Holland,Switzerland and Denmark add their numbers but for about 10% all toghether .....THe european market is as big as the NA one in hardware sales ,software wise it is another story as the piratery is way more spread and the games are more expensive (games here for the Xbox and Cube and PS2 have been all the last generation 60 euros ...thats some 72 dollars ) .To give you an example my country has 41 million people and the PS2 has sold some 4.5 million consoles here and the PSP and DS are exceeding 1 million and 1.5 million respectively right now .
The consoles has been awaite anxiously in Europe ,ther may be scalpers but to pretend those are the bulk of the buyers or even a significant amount is ridiculous .
