Heavenly_King on 23 August 2011
| Hyruken said: Have to say i do laugh when i read people saying stuff like "Weakest region" when talking about the UK PS3 numbers. Because it is like saying a country with 5 people who all buy a ps3 = best region! Which is tarded.... That isn't how the real world works. Some people say France is one of the best regions for PS3. It has a population of 65m. UK has a population of 63m. But yet the UK has sold 4m and in France it has sold 3m. if you look at it in a % terms in the UK 6.3% of the population own a PS3. In France 4.6% own a PS3. You can do the same for all the other countries. Japan = 128m population. 6.8m PS3's sold = 5.3% of the population own a ps3. US = 312m population. 17m PS3's sold = 5.4% of the population own a PS3. Germany = 82m population. 2.7m PS3's sold. = 3.2% of population own a PS3. Italy = 62m population. 2.3m PS3's sold = 3.7% of population own a PS3 etc etc etc In terms of the percentage of population that own a PS3 UK is the highest in the world based on the tracked nations. Saying it is a "weak region" is pretty laughable when you look at it like that. |
I really think the term "weak" is quite relative depending of how you see the big picture.
If you compare the PS3 sales to other console sales in UK, then for the PS3 UK is the weakest territory, because the "target population" (HARDCORE GAMERS, and no Ipad owners) is way bigger than units PS3 sells; and also because the other consoles sell more. But if you just compare the density of consoles/per habitant in each region then the result is different.
In other words no one is wrong, you just need to speak in the same "criteria" to make sense with each other. XD
