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Farsala on 11 December 2017
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zorg1000 said:
Farsala said:

http://www.dfcint.com/dossier/the-korean-console-market/

Remember how I always say PS2 is ahead of Wii launch aligned? This is one the markets that helps confirm that.

This one is definitely hard to believe and I don't really like the source but here you go. http://purenintendo.com/south-korea-wii-ds-sales/

Wii – 500,000 units sold
DS – 2,500,000 units sold

Thanks for the numbers but how exactly does that make PS2 ahead of Wii launches aligned?

I said it in a post a long time ago to you I believe, and its hard to find all the sources again. For markets like SK, Taiwan, India, Brazil and other big secondary markets that since the PS2 launched so late, those sales add to it like its in its first year launch aligned. Which also makes the comparison between PS2/Wii vs PS4 that much worse.

For example you see the sales right there.

~4 years PS2 in SK= 1.27m

~4 years Wii in SK=  500k

This is going to be really complicated to say and I am really confusing myself but hopefully it comes out right: However they are not launch aligned in comparisons. If people compare do 1.5 year shipment comparisons in those charts that they do, it isn't truly launch aligned because it includes SK Wii sales but not SK PS2 sales. If people do 2 year comparisons it includes >.5 year of Wii and only a few weeks of PS2 sales in SK and etc.

Another more clear example Wii launched 1st day in Brazil and PS2 launched after the Wii in 2009. So any shipment data comparisons has Wii Brazil data and not PS2 Brazil data until freaking year 9.