CBC: About 1.5 million PS3s sold in Canada. Hoping to double that by 2012

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viStaR said:

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Arcturus said:

1.5M PS3s sold in Canada sounds about right considering VGChartz is reporting 15M for Americas.

Actually I did a bit of a breakdown last month and it would seem to show that we're undertracking PS3 in Canada (and most likely Latin America) by a fair margin.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3599796

As of the end of July we only have Canada at about 1 million, and Latin America at about 650k. I strongly suspected Latin America is off by a fair bit since GOW3 sold about 50k in Brazil and probably over 100k in all of LA, not to mention PES 2010 likely selling over 150k.

According to NPD Pa3 is at 13M in U.S so 1.5M Shipped in Canada is pretty much possible and VGC numbers are pretty much fine.

So around 14.2 M in NA and 800K in Others Americas.

NPD is at 13,160,196 as of the end of August, VGC has Americas at 14,864,757. A difference of 1,704,561. If we had Others Americas, Latin America, at 800k (which is what I strongly suspect the actual LA install base is) that would mean Canada would only be at about 900k. Barely even half of what's shipped there, or in other words about 2 years worth of sales. In addition to that, GOW3 still sold over 250k in Canada (225k initial shipment) which is an inexplicably high attach ratio with an install base that size. Finally, they mention in the article that PS3 is at 38 million and 360 at 41 million so most likely the 1.5 million figure is shipments to the end of June, so in all likelihood sell-through is probably on par or marginally higher than that by now.