Install base in Australia and New Zealand, per GfK

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RolStoppable said:
New Zealand deserves to lose all their matches at the World Cup in South Africa.

LOL!!

Just as well you wrote "in South Africa".

I'm not surprised by our Wii numbers. There is a strong perception of Wii being for the kids and fitness Mums here, and that it is a G rated console (little do they know). Certainly all the TV ads for Wii I've seen are aimed at those 2 markets.

I'm surprised at the DS vs. PSP numbers. Though my sampling is very limited, based on what I've seen I'd have guessed DS>PSP here, but not by much. PSP>DS by that much seems pretty crazy.

Interestingly a couple of game retailers have recently changed the layout of their stores. Most notably the closest EB Games store has swapped the XBox360 section with the PS3 section. The store is long and narrow with the sales counter half way down. Up until a month or so back the 360 game shelves were along one wall from the store entrance to the sales counter. The PS3 shelves were from the sales counter to the back of the shop. Now it's completely swapped. The Wii shelves stayed put in the front half on the opposite wall. I've heard that where products sit in a store is somewhat of a reflection of the popularity.

PC game shelves for a long time have been relegated to the back wall, and that's where they've stayed

Interestingly with the JB HiFi store the first game shelves you see coming in to the store are the 360 and PS3 used games shelves. Kinda suggests where they want the customer to focus their attention, and I gotta say, it works. I always check out the PS3 used games display beefore venturing further.

The other point of interest is that in Aussie PS3+360+Wii ~ PS2+XB whereas in NZ PS3+360+Wii < PS2 (which means << PS2+XB though XB not shown it must be good for at least 100K). last gen gamers pretty slow to adopt this gen in NZ it seems. Not suprising given the high price of consoles here, and the fact that we are experiencing much tougher economic times than Aussie at the moment.