| ioi said: Has been discussed numerous times... |
Looking at this post makes me think of something. Looking at recent numbers for certain software, some things just aren't adding up. In that post Latin American PS3 sales are at about 600k, probably about 625k by now. It was recently revealed that GOW3 has sold 45k just in Brazil, I'm assuming that translates to about 80k-100k in the entirety of Latin America. That would mean that GOW3 has achieved an attach ratio that only the hugest of the huge releases manage. In addition to that PES 2010 sold 600k in Latin America. Now no breakdown was given for that but I would assume at least 100k-150k were on PS3 since it's the only platform without piracy. An even bigger attach ratio anomaly than GOW3. Now I'm not saying that Latin American sales are massively undertracked but I think it's safe to assume that they might be a few 100ks low. Another attach ratio anomaly, ironically also connected to GOW3, is Canada. GOW3's first shipment to Canada was 250k. I would assume that it's sold through that and then-some by now. If it's sold close to 300k in Canada that's a similar situation to it's Latin American attach ratio. Now in all likelihood this wouldn't amount to a whole lot, a few 100k. Nowhere near the rather ridiculous 1 million some people think it should be adjusted up by but it would explain some of the rather unusually large differential. Sony probably is stuffing the channel to some degree.
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