Munkeh111 said:
Hyruken said:
Munkeh111 said:
Hyruken said:
ethomaz said:
Hyruken said:
Where does it say 265k in the article?
Or is this based on 6% increase of what VGC has GT4 at?
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Chart-Track GT4 launch.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=116065
Launched last Friday in the UK, Gran Turismo 4 is already one of only four titles that have sold over a quarter of a million units in launch week and has secured the honour of becoming the fourth fastest selling videogame on these shores, the top three being GTA: San Andreas, GTA: Vice City and Halo 2.
Now make maths.
And over 265k could be 300k or more in UK the weakest PS3 country.
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Thanks for the link.
But thought i would point out to you that UK is the 3rd biggest PS3 sales country currently and is the most in Europe for PS3 sales with 3.5m units sold. Nearly a million units more then it's nearest competitor and almost more then countries Germany and Spain combined.
Would hardly say that was weak :)
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Weakest in terms of relative internal performance... Certainly weakest PS3 country in terms of percentage of the market controlled in Europe
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Do you have some numbers to back that up?
Just to use Black Ops as an example here. In 5 days it sold 2m units in UK. 42% of that was on PS3. That is 840k sold in 5 days in UK alone on PS3...
Would love to see some evidence of bigger numbers then that from the other European countries?
Or are you saying in terms of consoles sold other countries have a higher attach ratio? Because if that is what you are saying it doesn't mean other countries sell more games. Because it is like saying country X has 5 consoles sold, those 5 people bought 5 games this week, making it a 100% attach ratio. But country Y has 100 consoles sold, and of those 20 people bought games this week making it a 20% attach ratio. But while the attach ratio is 4x lower then that of Country X it's sales are x3 higher.
Point being in terms of volume of software sold i would think PS3 software sales in UK are much higher then that of the other European countries.
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What I'm trying to say is that the 360 is the dominant console in the UK, and so the PS3's UK market is not as significant in terms of its whole European numbers. I don't know about relative attach ratios, but the UK represents under 20% of EMEAA for the PS3 and over 30% of 360
Saying the UK is the PS3's weakest country is not quite the right choice of words, but it is when just considering the battle against the Xbox
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I'd say its quite irrelevant who the dominant console is in any territory as the game is exclusive to one console.
265k copies of gt5/ 3,492,218 ps3 = 0.0759 fw attach rate (7.59%)
0.0759 * 19,597,967 =1,487485 copies of GT5 based on exact same attach rate for all of EMEAA.
The only question we need to ask is what is whether the UK first week attach rate for GT5 will be above or below the average for EMEAA.
Disclaimer: numbers taken from VGChartz totals ending wk 20/11/2010 and using highly basic and completely untrustworthy maths skills. 
