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Mummelmann on 12 December 2009
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ramses01 said:
Simulacrum said:
Did Xbox 360 outsell Ps3 according to Vgchartz numbers?
Also, I wonder when these journalist start to look worldwide and not america only.


Well to be honest the only territory that really matters is the US and perhaps the other english speaking countries - UK, canada, and AU.  The rest of the world is too fragmented.  Northern Europe and mainland asia are PC-centric, and Japan is handheld land.

The PS2 has sold 460.000 in Norway alone. Eastern Europe is also a huge market late into the generation, especially Poland and Lithuania. Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands are also markets to be contended with and besides Korea (I swear this is where Blizzard gets half their money from) and central parts of China people are quite fond of home consoles as well as PC's in Asia.

Its quite a strange thing to say that only English speaking territories matter since the majority of console and game sales happen outside of these territories (390 million people in the UK, US and Australia put together versus 5.7 billion who don't live in those regions). Yes, US and UK markets are big and important but not bigger or more important than the rest of the world.