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TWRoO on 24 May 2008

^and Denmark.

Anyone ever notice Scandanavia looks like a camels head eating something (Sweden+Norway eating Denmark)

Or on the Euro coins it shows a map without Norway which makes Sweden and Finland look like a penis.

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Last I heard Ireland (Rep. of) has a population around 8 million, which is small.



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koffieboon on 24 May 2008
ioi said:
As with all data, there is a possiblilty we are slightly under or overtracking but not by much - 50% of "Other Europe" sounds about right really, Ireland is tiny, Switzerland and Austria are reasonably sized but the benelux countries despite a small population are pretty rich countries and have relatively large economies.

I compared the total Other Europe numbers with numbers provided by Adese for 2006 and 2007. The Netherlands and Belgium combined are around 1.05M for 2006 and 1.66M for 2007. Other Europe for 2007 is at 1.64M for 2006 and 2.48M. That would put the Benelux at over 2 third of Other Europe.



mariozeldametroid on 24 May 2008

Great to see how big a gaming industry my home country and it's brothers have, relatively :P ;)
I'm not very patriotic, maar dit is wel erg goed om te weten.



rocketpig on 24 May 2008
Machina-AX said:
This thread made me laugh.

>'Benelux has sold xxx,xxx PS3s'

-'Where's Benelux?'

>'Benelux stands for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg'

-'Where's Benelux?'

>'Look here's a bloody map, find it yourself'

-'Where's Benelux? It's not on there'

>'Yes it is'

-'No it's not'

>'Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg are all on there'

-'But Benelux isn't'

>'*sigh*'

-'whatever, come back with a map pointing out Benelux'


Good to see that I'm not the only one who found that amusing.




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reverie on 24 May 2008

The Wii was mentioned in another article on the same website:

Wii 421k
DS 1370k

http://www.lesoirenligne.be/actualite/economie/jeux-video-sony-et-microsoft-2008-05-22-600071.shtml

"S'il veut offrir quelque crédibilité à cette affirmation, Microsoft devra, tôt ou tard, abattre ses cartes et annoncer ses résultats. Car, comme Sony, Nintendo dévoile les siens : « Depuis son lancement en décembre 2006, la Wii s'est vendue en Europe à six millions d'exemplaires, dont 421.000 pour le Benelux », indique Veerle Van der Jeugt, responsable des relations publiques de Nintendo Benelux. Du côté des consoles portables, la DS de Nintendo commercialisée au Japon et aux Etats-Unis depuis la fin 2004 et en Europe depuis mars 2005, aurait déjà convaincu 70,6 millions d'utilisateurs dans le monde (dont 20 millions en Europe et 1,37 million au Benelux). La PSP de Sony, qui a débuté sa carrière en décembre 2004 au Japon et en septembre 2005 en Europe, revendique quant à elle 34 millions d'utilisateurs dans le monde (chiffre arrêté au 31 décembre 2007), dont 12 millions en Europe."



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Ajax on 24 May 2008

the Netherlands (also know as Holland, it's capital is Amsterdam) is one of the richest countries of the world



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kamil on 24 May 2008

@Ajax: Holland is actually only a smart part of Netherlands.



John_Doe on 24 May 2008
Ajax said:
the Netherlands (also know as Holland, it's capital is Amsterdam) is one of the richest countries of the world

 and with a good football team



BKK2 on 24 May 2008

Thanks reverie, the article is from this week too, and includes shipments from Nintendo's latest earnings release, so should be fairly recent. Seeing as the Wii number is to 1k suggests it's probably GfK Benelux data, it's not often they give shipments to that accuracy.

So all consoles are fairly close in Benelux, Wii @ 421k, PS3 @ 300k, and 360 somewhere in between.

@Ajax

It's not even the richest country in Benelux :P.

@kamil

With a name like Ajax I'm sure he knows that, but Netherlands is commonly known as Holland in the UK, even if it is technically incorrect.



Lafiel on 24 May 2008

@ Machina-AX )

well, kamil is european, so I think he knew what and where Benelux is, but was concerned people from other parts of the world wouldn't find it on the map, so I think your interpretetation of what was said is slightly off in that part

@ Ajax )

and is quite poor compared to Luxembourg :-p