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From the following articles I was able to calculate rounded off unit sales for the other numbers from DS software sales and console software %.

Consoles:

Market Value: €554 (+29.1%)

Q4: €239M

Q3: €112M

Q1+2: €203

Units: 16M

PS2: 5.5M [35%] (-12%)

NDS: 5.1M [32%] (+100%+)

PSP: 2.35M [14.7%]

WII: 1.2M [7.5%]

360: 1M [6%]

PS3: 0.8M [4.9%]

1:Dr Kawashima's Brain Training [DS]

2:  Dr Kawashima's More Brain Training [DS]

5: FIFA 08 [PS2]

Top "Next Gen" title:

Wii Play [Wii]

 

 

PC

Market Value: €267 (-3.6%)

Units: 11.9M (-7.6%)

 

 

Via Google Translate:

"Console gaming market explodes with record sales
30-percent growth is borne of PC Games

PC console games against further decline (Photo: de.playstation.com)
Baden-Baden (pte/09.01.2008/13: 55) - The market for console games is booming, with sales of related software, including increased 2007 on the basis of the weekly panel market to 554 million euros. This conclusion of a recent study by market researcher Media Control GfK International https: / / www.media-control.com. To establish games for consoles increasingly a recreational medium number one and move gradually to the previously traditional PC games market to the brink, are industry experts agree. "Despite slight shifts, I do not assume that the medium to long term, an aggressive competition between console and PC games will emerge. Both will continue their Fangemeinden," says Media Control GfK International spokesman Sven Birgmeier over press.

In detail, the growth of the industry 29.1 percent in comparison to 2006. At that time, sales still at 429 million euros, with the momentum in the market, according to GfK still a disproportionately high or not. As one of the key growth Title of the experts see the Nintendo DS: 5.1 million games were already on the handheld sold. This represents more than a doubling over 2006. With 32 percent share of the total quantity of all software sales rose DS last year to number two. Although software products for the PlayStation 2 with 35 percent market share is still a lion's share of that segment lost the previous year twelve percent.

In the area of so-called "Next-Generation offers" one of Nintendo's Wii remains on the par sellers. The entire software paragraphs contributed Wii games with 7.5 percent. Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 in the same period gained market shares of 6.0 and 4.9 percent. Above all, the seasonal fourth quarter of 2007 recorded new sales records. Thus, the trading software with a total value of around 239 million euros lower. In comparison, there were for the third quarter of 2007, yet 112 million. As the 2007 title meistverkaufter word "Dr. Kawashimas brain jogging". "FIFA 08" for the PlayStation 2 lander in the Endberechnung however, only ranked fifth, behind ranked the most popular next-gen game "Wii play.

The boom in console games, but against the already declining computer games market. Although the sales in 2007 to 267 million euro stood, this corresponds to a slight decline in 2006 to 3.6 percent. Also, the sales volume dropped in the viewing period by 7.6 percent to 11.9 million units"

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So much for,Germany likes only PC gaming. ;)



Quality for Life

very nice indeed...



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Thanks Nintendo,for making videogames in Germany more popular than ever before!



Quality for Life

How does 500 mln euro for German console market value compare to US or UK?



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That 500M is just for software, and not hardware. Still, it's significantly lower than France. I don't have time to search now, but 2007 figures are available for France, Japan, and UK (est) for comparison.



I found that Franch market is at 2.3-2.4B euros (hardware, software and accessories), from which hardware is responsible for 1.1B. Software should be around 1B (not sure how much is for accessories but it shouldn't be a lot). So this would put France as being 2x as big as Germany in terms of market value.





jimmay said:
Wow big difference between these numbers and vgchartz numbers

 SOFTWARE, not hardware,

 

geez..learn to read 



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Neos said:
jimmay said:
Wow big difference between these numbers and vgchartz numbers

SOFTWARE, not hardware,

 

geez..learn to read


Too late, already did.