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kamil on 24 May 2008

@BKK2: Maybe. I actually don't know what Ajax means. I think I heard of some guy called Ajax in Greek mythology. I know there is a football team called Ajax Amsterdam but don't know why is it called like this and what it has to do with Netherlands.

@Lafiel: Of course I know. I just thought if someone takes the effort to post a Europe map (that anyone can find easily) in Benelux thread he would actually find one with Benlux labeled. But apperently I was wrong as many people think otherwise.



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MontanaHatchet 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

 Define "rich."



 

 

MANUELF on 24 May 2008
Gazz said:
MANUELF said:
Thanks, BENELUX is part of other Europe rigth?

 


I say Other Europe in this page, not in the continent of Europe.

BKK2 on 24 May 2008
MontanaHatchet said:
Ajax said:
the Netherlands (also know as Holland, it's capital is Amsterdam) is one of the richest countries of the world

Define "rich."


10th out of 179 for Gross Domestic Product (nominal) per capita in 2007 according to the IMF. Poor compared to Luxembourg, though.



MontanaHatchet on 24 May 2008

Per Capita makes a lot more sense. I already know that, but I assumed you were talking about overall wealth.



 

 

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FilaBrasileiro on 24 May 2008
NJ5 said:
MikeB said:
About 712 million people live in Europe.

The Benelux accounts for about 27 million people.

Other European countries listed by VGChartz seperately:

United Kingdom: 61 million

France: 64 million

Germany: 82 million

Spain: 45 million

Italy: 59 million

Scandinavia: 19 million (if including Iceland and Finland about 25 million)

So "other Europe" on VGChartz probably represents about 376 million people of which the Benelux accounts for about 7% of the 'other Europe' population.

Some strong PS3 countries in 'other Europe' includes Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Austria and Switzerland.

I would wish the "other Europe" section would get a better description so to better understand what's covered and included within what figures.

Actually I believe Portugal numbers are included in Spain, according to ioi. I sent him a PM asking if it wouldn't be better to call it Iberia since that's the case, but I don't know if he saw it.

That makes me suspect that there are some other similar cases. Maybe Austrian numbers are included in Germany. It wouldn't surprise me if Australia includes New Zealand as well. Ireland could be together with UK.

I agree with you that these things should be more clear.

 

 I agree with you both. 

 



BKK2 on 24 May 2008

Even on a non per capita basis it's still 16th out of 179.

Nominal GDP



jalsonmi on 24 May 2008
MontanaHatchet said:
Per Capita makes a lot more sense. I already know that, but I assumed you were talking about overall wealth.

Per Capita probably makes more sense to look at, since it would show a relative level of th population that have the disposable income to spend on a video game system.

Of course, it's a mixture of everything, though. I wouldn't be surprised if more consoles were sold in the Netherlands than Luxembourg, simply because of the population difference, But that's taking into account how rich both countries are, Population difference most definitely isn't enough to make Russia sell more consoles than Benelux, after all.

But I'm probably ruminating on things you already know quite well.



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Slimebeast on 24 May 2008
MikeB said:
About 712 million people live in Europe.

The Benelux accounts for about 27 million people.

Other European countries listed by VGChartz seperately:

United Kingdom: 61 million

France: 64 million

Germany: 82 million

Spain: 45 million

Italy: 59 million

Scandinavia: 19 million (if including Iceland and Finland about 25 million)

So "other Europe" on VGChartz probably represents about 376 million people of which the Benelux accounts for about 7% of the 'other Europe' population.

Some strong PS3 countries in 'other Europe' includes Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Austria and Switzerland.

I would wish the "other Europe" section would get a better description so to better understand what's covered and included within what figures.

VGC has 575,000 for PS3 in "Other Europe". Let's say half of those are sales in Benelux since that fits with the number in the article.

Benelux has a pop of 27 million.

Since ioi implied it above we can remove Portugal from your PS3-strong market list (incl in Spain sales).

Ireland + Austria + Switz has pop 20 mill so it's unlikey that more than 200,000 PS3s sold there. That leaves almost 100,000 PS3s for the rest - Greece at pop 11 mill + a bunch of Eastern European countries at 330 mill.

Not so long ago in a thread about Eastern European console sales, we could see that Next-gen console lifetime sales are very small in Poland (pop 38 mill) and Russia (pop 141 mill) - roughly 25K each.

So in conclusion, it all adds up well.

 

 



konnichiwa on 24 May 2008

This thread made my day XD.