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haxxiy said: Well that's what I've been saying the whole time isn't it? Back two years or so estimates already put total PS2 numbers here close to 8m. Total PS3 numbers (counting imported ones, that is) should be close to 1.5m by now and both X360 and Wii around 500k... Oh, and probably X360 is ahead of Wii. There never has been much love for Nintendo here... SNES was outsold by the Genesis, what on Earth is a N64 or a GC, and Wii was negatively received. Nintendo consoles and handhelds for that matter have always been stuff of skinny japanese descendant kids, or at least that's the feeling you get. It's not that bad for Nintendo but it's mostly true. SNES is well known and N64 most had some contact with. GC is really just a myth though. But since the PS and it's massive advantage Sony got a nice place in the average players heads. Still, I'd say both Xbox 360 and Wii are higher than that, but I sure don't have numbers to back me up. Anyways the numbers doesn't tell the whole picture if you consider Sony should be profiting some $400 in each PS3 sold here (a PS3 costs about $1200 now). Heck even the PS2 is still close to $300. The most insane prices ever were by the Wii launch ($1100 for a Wii, but quickly dropped to $700 or so). It's not like Sony sells them for more here then in the USA. The extra price doesn't go to them, it gets diluted in the way, a big chunck with the government. By the way, sales outside of NA and Europe are GOW3's best bet to reach 5m if there isn't any piracy. Pirated GOW and GOW2 had insane attach rates, and at least some of it should convert to 'real' GOW3 sales in the long term. |
The way taxes work here is also retarded. The store has to pay a tax over each sale. but they pay this tax over the total sale price, which... includes this tax!
What I mean is, if you pay 100 bucks for something and wants 20% in profit, you can't just sell it for 120 bucks plus (say) 20% for the taxes, because you'll be taxed those 20% over that. No, you have to charge 150 bucks just to get those 20 bucks for yourself. So the government is actually pocketing 50% more than the retail in this scenario. I don't have the exact numbers, but it's not that far from it, and if it happens at a few levels, shit.
