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http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21621379-7486,00.html

 

360=160,000

Wii=80,000

PS3=36,000 

 

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The 360 was sitting around 110k around Xmas (or maybe just before). The PS2 has sold about 1.2m units, and the DS has hit 500k (a few weeks back). At the moment, the PS2 has the sweet spot in terms of price - its ultra cheap here, as are the games. ... I wonder where those numbers have come from... that PS3 figure looks a little suss to me (sold around 20k for the launch period?).



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Well those must be the cumulated sales .Then the data for the X360 isnt very good ,having had a launch period plus a christmas period and one year and a half being at 160 K isnt a great feat .The Wii numbers arent very good either .And the PS3 numbers it depends of when are this numbers from .If they are from yesterday they are bad as it would have sold only 9K in one month ,but it these are from end march as it is probable they are very good numbers .



We are a bit of a funny market. All three consoles are (relatively) *very* expensive. A base 360 can be picked up for around $650AU (packs for about $800) A Wii retails for about $380AU. PS3 launched at $1000AU (don't think the price has dropped much, but you can pick them up on Ebay for about half the price - last I looked anyway). ... We have a 10% GST/VAT tax. The Aussie dollar has also just hit 15(?) year highs - and is sitting at about 0.83c US (last year was about 0.74c). So, when you take the tax off and convert to US dollars: 360 - $491 (core) Wii - $288 (with Wii Sports) PS3 - $755 As you can see, all units are relatively expensive. Consider that you can pick up a PS2 for about $180AU (around the cost of a DS), and *heaps* of games for $20 (EB are now running 3 games for $55 campaign) - and you can see why none of the consoles have really taken off. (A PS2 in US dollars comes to $135) Our population is around the 25m-28m mark - about 10% of the US market?



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Nocturnal is helping companies get cheaper game ratings in Australia:

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shams said:
The 360 was sitting around 110k around Xmas (or maybe just before). The PS2 has sold about 1.2m units, and the DS has hit 500k (a few weeks back). At the moment, the PS2 has the sweet spot in terms of price - its ultra cheap here, as are the games. ... I wonder where those numbers have come from... that PS3 figure looks a little suss to me (sold around 20k for the launch period?).

 The source link is right in the post. It's reliable (news source) and being posted at several forums around the web.



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http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=5260

The Gamecube sold 160,000 systems in its lifetime in Australia as compared to 835,000 for the XBox and 1,800,000 for the PS2. In other words, the Wii is at 50% of the Gamecube's lifetime total, the XBox 360 is at 19% of the XBox's lifetime total and the PS3 is at 2% of the PS2's lifetime total; not really meaningful statistics though.



Lets look at the numbers directly.

160,000 Xbox 360 since March 06. Launched March 23rd. 360 posted the record at 30,000 units sold in the first 3 deays.

That's 56 (minus launch week) weeks so you can average that at 2300 a week.

80,000 Wii Since December 06. Launched December 7th. Wii beat 360 record at 32,000 in first 3 days.

That's 20 weeks so you can average that at just over 2500 a week since launch week.

PS3 was 27,000 in 10 days. It's been out for a total of 6 weeks now (which is 42 days) all up which gives us 4.5 weeks since GfK made that announcement.

That means in 4.5 weeks they have sold 9,000 consoles which means that since launch they have sold at an average weekly amount of 2000 a week.

I think Wii is doing okay in Aus considering the massive failure of the GameCube, but what is most interesting is to see that the PS3 is doing SO slowly this closely after launch.
 

And PS2 sold over 2 million in Aus didn't it? N64 was 750,000 and PSX 1.5 million?



One wonders how well 360 sales will increase/change with a price drop. Very intresting numbers. Hopefully the 360 can get similar or better numbers to what the Xbox sold there. Im VERY suprised the orig. Xbox did as well there as it did.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

Australia is like USA's 51st state.



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This confirms my suspicion on the trend of English Speaking country = 360 sells well. Everywhere else it sells like crap.