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Dallinor said:
HappySqurriel said:

Japan has a low Broadband adoption rate and expensive dial-up which means that the lost sales were (for the most part) not picked up by downloads.


As of june 2007 Japan has the second highest amount of broadband subcribers in the world behind the US at 27.2 million active broadband subscribers. Japan is 16th in the worlds top 20 countries for household broadband penetration.

Theoretically every single PS3 owner over there could have broadband support.


As I said earlier, Japan's houshold penetration stands at (roughly) 20% and, although you are correct that it is possible that every PS3 owner has broadband, it is highly unlikely that broadband adoption rates are dramatically higher for PS3 owners being that online gaming is not very big in Japan; the reason for this (that I have been told several times) is there has never really been a flat rate dial up internet service in Japan which made online gaming really expensive.