DMeisterJ said:
Is that good? 1.4 mil in anywhere else is horrible. Hasn't the DS had weeks where it's sold 1.4 mil? |
Japan population: 127,433,494
Korea, South Population: 49,044,790
Japan PS3 1 year & 6 months = 2.05M
Japan Xbox 360 2 years & 5 months = 0.60M
South Korea is a pure PC dominated country.
Nintendo of Korea is a 'young' company, less than 2 years old!!!M'kay http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/03/nintendo-of-korea-opens-july-7th/
This momentum has largely been maintained since then, and Sony has done little to answer it. Ask any retailer at Yongsan, and they'll tell you that for the past six months, sales of DS games have been their biggest source of income. (As Yongsan merchants generally sell hardware for less than its MSRP, all profit is made from other transactions.) On that note, it'll be interesting to see what kind of reception Sony's PSP Slim gets upon its Korean release later this year.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1597/the_state_of_korea_console_games.php?page=2
Here’s the list for the week that ended on 7/29, courtesy of AK Communications:
1. Super Mario 64 DS – NDS
2. Super Robot Wars OG – SCEK, PS2
3. Transformers – Activision, 360
4. Tetris DS – Nintendo, NDS
5. Dynasty Warriors: Gundam – Namco Bandai, PS3
6. Shrek 3 – Activision, Xbox 360
7. Virtua Tennis 3 – SCEK, PS3
8. DS Fairy Tale Touch RO Puzzle – Skonec (Korean), NDS
9. Sudoku 10,000 – Skonec, NDS
10. Ratatouille – SCEK, PS2
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1597/the_state_of_korea_console_games.php?page=4
Is is big on console/handheld? Yes
Compare with PC? Hell...No!!
Poor PS3 Sales Means Smaller Losses
"Actually, because the number of units sold was not as high as we hoped, the loss was better than our original expectation," Quotes from Sony’s CFO Nobuyuki Oneda.
