GDC 2011: Israel console install base

[Slimebeast]

Xen said:

Slimebeast said:

Xen said:

As an Israeli, this is not exactly correct...

Where are the 100k hacked PSP's? The other 30k of hacked 360's? The 249999 hacked PS2's?

Kidding, kidding. But there should be more in the "hacked" graphs. There is no DS simply because the only DS here is my own. The PSP dominates this country so much that it's not even funny.

How can the PSP dominate so much over DS? I mean, clearly the Wii numbers suggest that Nintendo is fairly popular.

Also, a country with so much piracy, how can the PS3 be so big compared to Xnox? I mean X360 is quite popular in third world countries because it's easy to pirate (not saying Israel is a 3d world country but like Greece, Portugal, Eastern Europe and others it has some similarities)

Wii has everyman appeal here (random office worker girls like it for Wii sports, MK Wii, etc), handhelds are almost always only popular with the kids - and the games most liked are skating, football, basketball, shooters, god of war etc... the PSP is the obvious pick. I'm pretty sure that most also have no idea who the hell Nintendo are, they just like the Wii and call it such.

The key feat for the success of both is the enormity of the playstation brand - a guy i was on a work-related course with had a "hacked PS3" before even the jailbreak came out. Upon asking him whether the console had a slot drive/tray, he said tray... it's pretty obvious which is it, right? :P

Gamers in Israel don't know of Nintendo lol? Is it because it's a country in the Middle East and the ME is... different?

So why did the guy say that? He pulled a lie because he wanted to be cool and have a PS3 or he had some other device he thought was a PS3 (?)?