| Salamursu said: What mike was saying was that even being the biggest individual market the UK does not constitute more than ~20% of the total European console market. |
Correct according to Sony, the UK accounts for 20-22% of its PS3 business within Europe. For the UK the 1 million install base milestone hit a short while ago, meaning based on these figures about 4.8 million PS3 were sold in Europe around the time.
Also interesting:
"Reeves went on the claim that in certain European territories, such as France, Spain, Germany and Italy – plus some smaller markets like Switzerland – the PS3's "current cumulative installed base" is now higher than Xbox 360."
We can probably add Belgium, Portugal, Norway and Austria to those list of countries. Countries like the Netherlands and Sweden are apparently close to figures where the PS3 has already overtaken or is about to overtake the 360 install base.
Note, "others" for VGChartz is greater than just Europe alone, add another 200K for Australia and that's a well rounded 5 million, then you have an endless list of countries /regions we have very little data from such as India, Indonesia, South America, etc, etc.
Compare 5+ million with 4.15 million claimed by VGChartz then I think we can assume there are some significant tracking problems.
