twintail said:
Player2 said:
twintail said:
Spain always so PS heavy? I know its EU and all, just clarifying.. |
Yes. Here we don't have consoles, we have "la Play".
|
la play hey? haha nice. I know in South Africa they used to use the term 'Playstation' as a verb.
| celador said:
Yeah, Spain is always one of the most heavily skewed markets.
Think it was around 9:1 in PS4's favour in terms of hardware at the last update earlier this year.
|
| ruimartiniman said:
Yes.
2014 Spain software sales in thousands
PS3 2.999
3DS 1371
PS4 1.323
Wii 1.100
Xbox 874
PS Vita 463
Wii U 366
Xbox One 220
PSP 218
DS 123
|
Thanks for the numbers and ratio. !
| Goodnightmoon said:
Oh YES, believe me, I live there and is kind of annoying. Not because sony wins, that´s ok, they found a strong market here, but because the absolutely lack of variety always (games included) and how closed-minded gamers are here to any system other than PS systems. At least Nintendo hanhelds are pretty popular too.
|
Oh that is so interesting the market is that way. Was Spain one of the first markets Sony targetted back with the original PS1?
|
I think it's a combination of timing and that Sony didn't treat the various European territories as an afterthought unlike Nintendo and Sega. It perfectly positioned them to pick up the people moving across from computers (Atari/Amiga etc) in the mid 90s.
It seems normal now, but in the early 90s Europe was treated like places like China are now. Sony were the first to embrace Europe and picked up talent from the home computer market at the time (Psygnosis being a big one)meaning European centric games were being released rather than just games coming across from other markets.
