A lot of big games in EMEAA overtracked? Including gasp Halo Reach and Gran Turismo 5

[Michael-5]

atma998 said:

Michael-5 said:

 

average annual income per capita is actually 11k, and if it's 2k for black people, that means the capita is 42k per non black person. Canada's capita is 40k, and USA's is 50k (but don't be fooled, USA actually has the highest poverty rate of all the developed countries. They just have super corperations to balance this number).

So 20% of South Africa is stil 1/3rd the population of Canada, and the capita is the same. That would make 1/3rd the game sales very plausible (these places aren't as rural as you think). Johannesburg for instance is more populated then every city above north america except New Mexico, New York City, and Toronto (yay third biggest in NA).

Maybe 400k sales of some of these major franchise installments (lets use GT) might be much, but 200k from this country alone is damn well plausible. Also there are countries in the East coast of Africa, and middle east not accounted for.

I'm not buying that either.

Let's take your numbers, if all the rest of Americas (exluding USA and Canada) counts for 8.3% of Americas total, then it means that so far a game like GT5 has sold 161k over there. I don't see how african and middle east countries can count for around 4 times more sales than latin america.

Btw Toronto is not the third largest city in NA but the 5th and fall to 8th if we count the metropolitan areas :)

Yea I heard Toronto was the fifth, but Wikipedia give numbers above Los Angeles and I forget who was forth.

Also Games that are popular in South America =/= games that are popular in South Afirca. One guy from South Africa already corrected me and told me Halo isn't but there. but GT5 is.

Also by total population Afirca is over tiwce as large as South America. Not sure the population of developed (ish) countries, but it's more then SA because Brazil for instance put ridiculously high taxes on consoles so sales are low. Basically Africa and Middle East (on top of those smaller European countries) have more countries and population that game. South Africa, Egypt, Tanzania, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, mant countries in the middle east, and even South Korea give us that 600-700k missing for GT5.