TheSource comments on Sony's shipment figures

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steverhcp02 said:

TheSource said:

 

SCE does business in 99 countries if you read its corporate press releases - shipping 10,000 PS3s or whatever it is to 50 little markets per quarter in addition to the big markets of Western Europe, Japan, North America, Australia, Brazil and South East Asia has a way of adding up, and I think thats why the figures for PS2, PSP, and PS3 suggest more stock on shelves than for Nintendo / Microsoft stuff. The main reason I have PS3 beating X360 is that Sony beats Microsoft in most of the little markets. Worldwide you have something like -

USA - X360 > PS3

Canada - X360 > PS3

Mexico - X360 > PS3

UK - X360 > PS3

Australia - X360 > PS3

Scandanavia - X360 > PS3

Pretty much every other country that buys video games in the world though appears to favor PS3 over X360. For big markets, that wouldn't be enough - USA Canada Mexico UK Aust Scandanavia is 55% or so of the market - with mainland Europe, South Korea and Japan and a few other favoring PS3, but those small little markets that Sony taps or will tap are in rapidly developing / growing countries and so that 55% slips a bit each year.

 

This is precisely why im sadly beginning to follow shipped figures and almost willing to give up on WW software. It just seems too hard to track, especially like you say, lots of small markets that chip away at the market.

Shipped VS Shipped are the most accurate way to track, anything else is just for people who are too impatient