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sully1311 on 16 September 2014

Why are so many people getting worked up?



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whiteknight101 on 16 September 2014
ethomaz said:

whiteknight101 said:

Come on. The Scandinavian countries together are more than a 30% of the population of the UK, and I doubt the number of units sold / capita is any less than the UK. The PS4 already sold a million units in the UK, so it stands to reason that it already sold several hundred thousand units in Scandinavia alone. Add in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland and you got a market with roughly as many potential buyers as the UK.

How much 360 sold in Scandinavian lifetime?

There are no reliable numbers as far as I know, but a fair guess is that sales / capita are roughly similar to Germany. According to VGChartz the 360 sold 2,6 million units in Germany. Scandinavia has about 1/4th the population of Germany, and quite a lot higher purchasing power, so if we guess that the 360 sold 650k units in Scandinavia lifetime that's probably lowballing it.



GribbleGrunger on 16 September 2014
sully1311 said:
Why are so many people getting worked up?

Do people questioning things equal 'getting worked up' to you? Just curious.



 

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Aura7541 on 16 September 2014
sully1311 said:
Why are so many people getting worked up?

It was mainly FlamingWeasel who was being worked up.



deadeyye on 16 September 2014
ethomaz said:

deadeyye said:

You're completly wrong. Poland alone has 100k ps4 already sold, and ps2+ps3 had cumulative lifetime sales of over a million in this single country (both numbers official from Sony). So yes, you can have nice lifetime numbers in those countries (relative to their size and wealth). However, Sony contrary to MS actually cares a lot about Poland, and launched ps4 here in the same time as rest of the Europe.

As for x1 - yes, it was available here from tier 1 launch, and even publishers had published X1 games with polish language before official launch in this country (!). But now MS has run some marketing and promotions, and prices  were slighly lowered. It's still unlikely to make that much of sales, as most of those countries are completly Playstation devoted and don't care about X1.

How much 360 sold in poland lifetime? 100k for PS4 is for 10-11 months... at launch it sold what?

 

MS never gave numbers for x360, probably less than ps3. PS4 at launch in Poland has sold out in 5 minutes after opening shops, and many people were left unable to buy the console, like everywhere else in EU. So it's impossible to say how many would be sold on launch had the supply was enough, like it is with X1. 

But yeah, it's X1 in EU, so i don't think people are anywhere as interested as in Playstation.



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Angelv577 on 16 September 2014

I'll be waiting for some threads talking about how xbox one is catching up without thinking things through. Anyway nice boost for xbox one. Next week will be interesting.



tak13 on 16 September 2014

As for the wii u......40k isnt bad ,remember wii u in this week in 2013 was at 22k...



GamechaserBE on 16 September 2014

PS4 software sales is probably a week away to pass the WiiU software sales.. Also X360 software sales will pass the Wii software sales in one of the next months..



Fusioncode on 16 September 2014
Aura7541 said:
sully1311 said:
Why are so many people getting worked up?

It was mainly FlamingWeasel who was being worked up.

He's always worked up.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

whiteknight101 on 16 September 2014
ethomaz said:

whiteknight101 said:

Sure. But 30k launch week with a market of 60 million potential buyers with fat wallets and another 130 million with thinner wallets isn't PS4 pace. Think about it. Launch week for the Xbox One with 190 million Europeans customers and it still got beat by the PS4 10k for Europe as a whole.

Think about it too.

20k boost in 4 countries that didn't even have a stable local gaming market.

And about your 190 million Europeans customers... Brazil have this sames size of people, and it is in the TOP10 gaming market in the world... PS4/XB1 together didn't sold 30k at launch.

Scandinavia, Benelux and Switzerland all have somewhat higher BNP/capita than Brazil my friend. Especially Norway and Switzerland.... You're dealing with 60 million people with on average higher purchasing power than the UK and Japan.

Selling ~25k in those countries on launch week is neither surprising or impressive. Chalk the other 5k up to Turkey, Poland, Portugal, Greece etc with way above 100 million people.