In a recent PR update, Sony Gulf was kind enough to share some local figures with us. Sure, there were the usual big November ‘09 numbers of 3.8 million PS3s selling worldwide and over 38 million users on their PSN service, but some numbers also showed up that piqued our interest.
The entire Middle East region, historically dominated by the PlayStation brand, has a total install base of 450k units as of December 2009. Of these, over 350k users are registered and using the PSN service, accounting for roughly 1% of worldwide online players. Sadly we don’t have sales figures from Microsoft who officially launched their Xbox 360 only a month after the PS3’s launch in April 2007. Neither do we have Xbox Live figures for comparison with the PSN numbers since Live is officially unavailable in this region! A lot of games therefore come without the ‘Xbox Live’ logo on the box (eg. Halo 3 ODST), but enterprising gamers will always find a way to get online.
http://gameslatest.com/2010/01/25/78-of-ps3-users-online-in-middle-east/
Do we have seperate Middle east sales for all consoles..
