Its a pretty large overtracking if this is true, do we have news from any other source?
Google Translation:
The evening of yesterday on Sony make.belive event was also the occasion when Sony Computer Entertainment Italy finally has a little 'unbuttoned' status of the installed base of PlayStation consoles in Italy, everything has been collected from the lips of his general manager, Gaetano Ruvolo. La situazione è la seguente: The situation is as follows:
- 4.550.000 PlayStation 2 - 4,550,000 PlayStation 2
- oltre 1.500.000 PlayStation Portable - Over 1,500,000 PlayStation Portable
- 680.000 PlayStation 3 - 680,000 PlayStation 3
On the latter figure, Sony has expressed confidence of achieving the target of one million PS3 consoles in Italian homes by Christmas 2009. Fra i meriti di questa accelerazione segnati da Ruvolo figura ovviamente il recente taglio di prezzo; anche il fatto che PlayStation 3 sia sostanzialmente immune dal fenomeno pirateria contribuisce secondo Sony al successo della sua ammiraglia. Among the merits of this acceleration marked by Ruvolo figure obviously the recent price cut, even the fact that PlayStation 3 is substantially immune from the phenomenon of piracy contributes to the success of her second Sony flagship.
Other interesting data have emerged in the evening about PlayStation Network: 470,000 records are collected by Sony in Italy, corresponding to 280,000 unique users. Questa platea ha effettuato 7 milioni di download dal PSN, il 20% dei quali a pagamento. This audience has made 7 million downloads from the PSN, 20% of them to pay.
A margin account also revealed a trend of the market for video games in Italy and after +40% in two years ago and the +20% last year, is experiencing a difficult 2009, but apparently still slightly positive ground .
