Worldwide up

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askel50 said:

Can we have a list of these coutries where only sony sells?

Because I highly doubt they can justify the discrepancy between actual vgchartz numbers and the (partial) ones from other trackers. If I was more distrustful I would think that the EMEAA playstation numbers have been increased to reflect sony shipment data and that's it.

Besides even if those countries are responsible for these numbers it make to me no sense to track something on which you have no sample (because I don't think there is some shop in those countries that sends data to vgchartz). So it would be more honest to simply track Europe. Or at least let's separate real Europe from other countries. It's not like EU it's a small market, and this way a reader could understand data better, and he will know which numbers have basis and which one are more "bogus".

I don't have a full list on hand but it's more than a dozen and there have been scattered reports of several smaller regions seeing fast and exponential growth in a relatively short period. India for example. The PS3 install base there is very small, a mere 75k as of June. But in the space of 9 months Sony is projecting that that will almost double to 140k. Another example would be Latin America, the SW market has absolutely exploded down there. Most games are lucky to sell 10k in the region, but PES 2010 sold a monstrous 600k and God of War 3 sold over 50k in Brazil alone. And take a look at this:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3149846

PS3 makes up half of the software economy in the Middle East. And Sony recently stated that they would start localizing their games in Arabic.