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[wangjingwanjia]

It's interesting to see that all the major English speaking countries seems to be in favor for the Xbox-brand. US, Canada, Ireland, UK and Australia. Does the same apply for NZ and South Africa? If so, does anyone have any good clue why this might be?

And to no surprise I suppose, central, eastern and southern Europe (mainly) seems to be in clear favor for the PS-brand. And one could of course also ask the same question here, how come the non-English speaking western countries seems to be in favor for the PS-brand? Almost as if Xbox didn't even exist.

To me it seems to be divided by culture and language, somehow. But why, I don't understand. Before the X360 I would assume that the millions of people in the English speaking countries were in favour for the PS1 and PS2, but then switched/changed. And in the major parts of Europe they didn't, they continued with PS3.

Am I on to something here or is it just a bizzare coincident?

 

Teeqoz said:

Farsala said:

Teeqoz said:

Yeah, as I said, this is way better than whatever anecdotes any of us could give. I was wrong in guessing that Norway likes xbox more than most of europe, Sweden however loves xbox (the 360 at least).

It's really fun to see that in finland, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time sold better than The Last of Us. Who would've thought? Nice to see it charting at 19 in Norway multiformat as well, quite surprising actually.

Where do you see tha Sweden is crashing?

I assume so, I'll make a thread for it when it does.

In comparison since 2009 Sweden dropped -13%, -10%, -19% and -9% each year since.
While Norway did +73%, -8%, +4%, -13%.

I can understand drops at the end of the gen but sweden has been dropping a long time before that. Used to be double the other nordic countries, now its simply 1.5.

I assume it's the economy. Sweden got hit much harder than Norway after the financial crisis in 2008, and Norway has had higher economical growth than Sweden in the later years (always maybe?).

 

This really caught my interest as well to be honest. The Nordic market seems to be stronger than I had thought, and especially Norway.

If we compare Sweden (~10 million people) to Norway, Denmark and Finland (~5 million), the three later markets are all stronger than the Swedish in terms of sales/population. Norway the very strongest. I had never thought this beforehand. Just by adding up the numbers, Norway could have sold ~2 million PS3 games in 2013 with twice as big of a population as Sweden. Denmark and Finland would also be near to ~2million PS3 games as well. Also the near 50:50 ratio of PS3:X360 games in Sweden looks very odd compared to the other three countries.