koffieboon on 24 May 2008
| MikeB said: About 712 million people live in Europe. The Benelux accounts for about 27 million people. Other European countries listed by VGChartz seperately: United Kingdom: 61 million France: 64 million Germany: 82 million Spain: 45 million Italy: 59 million Scandinavia: 19 million (if including Iceland and Finland about 25 million) So "other Europe" on VGChartz probably represents about 376 million people of which the Benelux accounts for about 7% of the 'other Europe' population. Some strong PS3 countries in 'other Europe' includes Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Austria and Switzerland. I would wish the "other Europe" section would get a better description so to better understand what's covered and included within what figures. |
The 376 million people is a pretty useless number here, almost all these people live in Eastern Europe and Russia (and maybe Turkey is included as well?), these countries will buy far less consoles relative to their population than West European countries. The Benelux accounting for 50-60% of other Europe seems a bit high, but it must be a significant part of it and way more than the 7% it represents when purely looking at the total population.
