BraLoD said:
This is a pretty distorted truth.
The "official channels" say what it needs to be said.
Here in Brazil, by far the biggest market from Latin America, official channels are not the biggest incoming of sales from consoles, the grey market is prevalent to it, and the PS4 is the best selling system, from the 8th gen, there.
It's the most self marketed system, which means retailers and people advertise by themselves it pointing a higher interest on the system.
I can't say for sure, but I don't think other countries around here are much different.
To add more to it, I don't know a single person, personally, that owns a XBO, while I know a couple that have a PS4 and just one of them got it from an official channel.
You can look up into web stores to see the PS4 listed firstly both as the system and as the software part, you can ask retailers and they'll say the interest in the PS4 is much higher.
So in the end, at least here in Brazil, even if the XBO does have the biggest official sales number, it's the PS4 that is in the most gamers homes, and the most popular system.
|
I'm curious.
Did you read the article?
Be honest.
Ka-pi96 said:
Augen said:
Ka-pi96 said:
What's with these random groupings? I mean some Latin American countries are also a part of North America so what's up with that? Why not just do North/South America? Likewise with Europe, why is that split up? What's western Europe? Does it include Italy/Greece and the like or not? |
Cultural versus geographic. Latin America are Spanish, French, and Portuguese countries.
Western Europe to me was divided along old cold war lines.
|
Yeah, I know what Latin America is. But why group it that way? That's like a continent and a half and even excludes some of the countries that are part of South America & the Caribbean simply because they speak English/Dutch instead. Meanwhile western Europe is less than a half of what is already one of the smaller continents. So why enlarge one region and make another smaller? Is it simply to make Latin America look better than it actually is?
|
Good question.
It's just the way I have the data set up because the reports I have access to split the data that way. It's a lot easier for me to use that data rather then guestimate the whole of Europe etc...
