One Billion Sold?

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Vengi said:

On the subject of China's Middle class

Large Middle Class
http://english.people.com.cn/200509/03/eng20050903_206346.html


Only 100,000,000?
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/editors/2007/02/14/market-myths/

290 million people by 2011 & 520 million by 2025
http://www.chinalawblog.com/chinalawblog/2006/05/url_for_dont_ig.html

Sony's PS2 sells well in China but no numbers given.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/007447ec-329d-11db-87ac-0000779e2340.html

Based on these figures we could possibly see UK like wii sales in China by 2010 and US type sales by 2025 (for the best selling console) , taking into account that the Wii would sell quite a bit cheaper then in the west and it is made there, also by 2010 we can assume a price cut for the wii.

I also predict that by 2015 - 2020 they will have there own development houses in china, i can see lots of tie-in games for chinese films ;)

This leads me to believe that yes, china will have a real impact on sales in the long term future and maybe up to a 10% WW increase in sales by 2011.

 problem is china is the capital of the world for piracy, and they dont seems to interested in fighting it all that much.