Local gaming market to reach about 15 million euros this year

In brief

The local gaming market (video games, consoles and other accessories) will reach some 15 million euros this year, and half of this value is to be achieved in the last quarter of 2008, according to Flamingo International representatives.
In the first quarter of this year, Flamingo International registered an 80% growth in the segment of consoles, as compared to the same period of last year. According to company representatives, the best sold products were PlayStation Portable, followed by PlayStation 3 and Play Station 2.

"The increase in the sale of consoles in the first half of this year is the natural result of the positive evolution registered in the Romanian gaming market.

Even if we are behind other European markets, the sales achieved by now offer us an optimistic perspective on the development of this segment of products in Romania, and we are certain that in the coming years we will reach a growth pace similar to the one registered at European level," said the Flamingo International CEO, Jiři Rizek.

On Wednesday, Flamingo International will launch in its store chain the latest version of the Play Station 3 game console, with an 80 GB hard-disk. As regards the games segment, the company representatives estimated that, in the first half of this year, it maintained a growth pace similar to the one registered in 2007, the most sought after games in Romania being God of War 1 and God of War 2 for PS2, Tekken Dark Resurrection for PSP and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and GTA IV for PS3.

Last year, Flamingo International sold 2,000 Sony PlayStation 3 consoles, 3,500 PlayStation Portable consoles, 10,000 PlayStation 2 consoles and approximately 400 Nintendo Wii units.

Poland console market is growing very fast pace.

14 October 2008

Do not interfere in even the relatively high costs to be borne by the player, wishing to keep up with successive generations of platforms. The increase indicates not only the interest of companies issuing game also our country, but above all a console popularity among the inhabitants of our country. According to information published by Sony Computer Entertainment Poland shows that a formal sale of the PlayStation 3 in Poland exceeded the number of 50 000 units.

To obtain this result PlayStation 3 needed just 19 months of sales. Thanks to this latest stationary platform Sony is the fastest-selling software product PlayStation brand in our country. For comparison, PlayStation 2 needed to achieve a similar result over 40 months, while the PSP (PlayStation Portable) 31 months.

Let the representatives of the Polish branch of votes Sony Computer Entertainment: "We are pleased with the fantastic sales of PS3 system" - said Marcin Ziobrowski, Director General of the SCE Poland - "We are delighted that the PlayStation brand is extremely popular among Polish consumers, but we are also convinced that we really modern, a complete product, which can become a center of entertainment in the living room of each home. "

"With the exceptional games premierami such as LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm Pacific Rift, or Resistance 2 geared up fantastic winter season of PlayStation 3" - added Maciej Kmiołek, director of marketing - "PS3 is also a Blu-ray format, which discovered the home cinema enthusiasts in High Definition, and the extensive service network PlayStation Network, to which the Polish users have access from the near year. "

Please note that the first PlayStation 3 on the Polish market took place 23 March 2007.

Czechs to purchase tens of thousands of game consoles

Microsoft believes. By the end of this year in the Czech Republic intends to sell the Xbox gaming console with the serial number 25 000 The weekly said Ekonom director of the Czech branch of Microsoft Jane Gilsonová.

"With sales of the Xbox we are very satisfied. We expect that only in this financial year ending next July, czech republic sell ten thousand pieces," added Gilsonová.

"In Slovakia and the Czech Republic, we continue to be number one in the market. PlayStation 3 was placed on the market, while up to half a year after the competition," remarked the HN PlayStation marketing manager for the Czech Republic and Slovakia Andrej Dula. He added, console PlayStation 3 were not considered significant market share as the PlayStation 2, which included 90 percent of the market, but the unit remains with us. Indeed, despite significantly lower cost, even if technically incomparably simpler Wii console.

While Dula did not reveal volume numbers, according to David Klepetko, responsible for the Microsoft Entertainment division, the company sold on the Slovak market in this financial year ending on June 3000 Xbox 360 consoles , that is, half of the total number since the Xbox 360 on the Slovak market. "'re still unable to meet demand, but since August it would no longer be considered sufficient," claims for HN Klepetko.

The first family of compact console PlayStation PSP debuted in Japan in December 2004, in North America - in March 2005, in Asia - in May 2005 and in September 2005, appeared in Europe and the region of PAL. «Starting the PSP was in Russia as in Europe in 2005. And we are pleased that during this relatively short period of time, PlayStation Portable managed to acquire the status of the most popular game system among Russian gamers. Proof - 600 thousand consoles sold in Russia as of February 2009 », - said Alexander Kharlamov, director of marketing and business development SCEE in Russia and CIS.