palancas7 on 18 February 2011
Just to contextualize, Sony had once a 90% market share in Portugal making justice to the "Sonyland" epithet. Other data of interest show that Portugal showed in 2010 a healthy growth in the market of video games following an already excellent year of 2009.
Gfk reported a 17,4% growth in 2009 to a total value of 184.000.000€ and the preliminary data shows that 2010 followed that tendency.
So, market share numbers:
Nintendo Wii: 25,4% ( 375.000 units) growth of 52,2%
PS3: 24,3% ( -359.000 units) growth of 11%
Xbox360: no data on the article besides the info that though it's the console with the smallest installed base it had a notable growth of 43% last year. And that Kinect should give it some momentum.
Source ( i - a portuguese generalist newspaper from Gfk data):
Google translation of the article
Gfk reported a 17,4% growth in 2009 to a total value of 184.000.000€ and the preliminary data shows that 2010 followed that tendency.
So, market share numbers:
Nintendo Wii: 25,4% ( 375.000 units) growth of 52,2%
PS3: 24,3% ( -359.000 units) growth of 11%
Xbox360: no data on the article besides the info that though it's the console with the smallest installed base it had a notable growth of 43% last year. And that Kinect should give it some momentum.
Source ( i - a portuguese generalist newspaper from Gfk data):
Google translation of the article
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What's this? Positive news on a doom and gloom day? 
