Australian DS launch, most successful launch ever?
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What a completely ignorant thing to say! There's no such thing as an unimportant market. If you can sell something to someone and make money out of it, of course it's important. Ever more so if you can sell something to a percentually large section of the populace and make even more money from doing so!
Nobody's ignoring the Swedish market for example despite it's only a fraction of Australia's in size. You're talking complete bollocks here. The PS may have sold some 110-ish million over the years, but there's over six billion people on the planet. I bet you're not impressed by that sales ratio...
Nobody's ignoring the Swedish market for example despite it's only a fraction of Australia's in size. You're talking complete bollocks here. The PS may have sold some 110-ish million over the years, but there's over six billion people on the planet. I bet you're not impressed by that sales ratio...
Actually, they pretty much do. Why do you think "Europe" always comes bundled together?Guden Oden said:
Extra details (such as performance in more recognizable markets like England and perhaps Germany or France) get tossed on top, but people are mainly concerned with Europe as a whole, or the UK in particular as it's the easiest US/Euro comparison to understand. Kind of the same way "North American" sales refers to everyone as US sales, shrugging those other NA residents aside.Evil_Cloud
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cthellis42 said:Actually, they pretty much do. Why do you think "Europe" always comes bundled together?Guden Oden said:
Speaking of which, ELSPA only covers UK sales, I don't think there's an agency that keeps track of all the European sales data...
Sometimes companies even use the term 'Europe' for the entire PAL market btw.
The companies themselves usually announce their European totals...Evil_Cloud said:Speaking of which, ELSPA only covers UK sales, I don't think there's an agency that keeps track of all the European sales data...
Sometimes companies even use the term 'Europe' for the entire PAL market btw.
That is, when they're not picking individual markets to show themselves in the best light.
Really, how many times has it launched before and how much more successful was it this time than previous times?
No, the launch of the russian spacerocket carrying monkeys a few decades ago was more successful. It didnt suck at all, to the contrary, it spitted out a lot of hot stuff.
Guden Oden said:What a completely ignorant thing to say! There's no such thing as an unimportant market. If you can sell something to someone and make money out of it, of course it's important. Ever more so if you can sell something to a percentually large section of the populace and make even more money from doing so!
Nobody's ignoring the Swedish market for example despite it's only a fraction of Australia's in size. You're talking complete bollocks here. The PS may have sold some 110-ish million over the years, but there's over six billion people on the planet. I bet you're not impressed by that sales ratio...
Nobody is ignoring the Swedish market? Please show me a person outside of Sweden who gives a damn about it. It's lumped together with the rest or Europe. As I said, Australia is about as important as Ohio. Austrians market is less important then Dutch market. I could go on and on. The point is, it’s nice that it is doing well in Australia (we don’t even know how well in absolute terms), but unless every single person there buys 10 DSs and 30 games, it has little global relevance.
This Australia issue has been discussed already some time ago. Read that thread, and just replace xbox with DS
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewt...alia&sid=3039dc59a68b11c1ce28dc483fdf7e62
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewt...alia&sid=3039dc59a68b11c1ce28dc483fdf7e62
Geeforcer said:
Um, on second thought, I've changed my opinion to match yours. So has Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Apple, IBM, Ford, Mercedes, Colgate Palmolive, Nestlé, Pfizer, etc etc, and they've all decided to close up shop over here and stop selling all their products to us. Nobody cares about us, this country's just too small.
Guden Oden said:
There's no Swedish market place; there's only the EU single market and Sweden is part of that. In fact, studies show that after joining the EU (10 years ago) product diversity has dramatically increased in each of the former "new" member states.
Slightly off topic, but I didn't want to start a new thread. Here's a advert for NFSU2 for the DS:
http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiads?gameid=35f5b04b-5ec0-4053-ba65-b0ee030daa9e
There's a little bit of in game footage in their as well (only a few seconds though). It looks a lot better then either Ridge Racer DS or Asphalt Urban GT IMO. Polygon counts look a lot higher (especially the car models). The polygons also look very solid (perspective correction) and I don't see any scenery pop up either.
http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiads?gameid=35f5b04b-5ec0-4053-ba65-b0ee030daa9e
There's a little bit of in game footage in their as well (only a few seconds though). It looks a lot better then either Ridge Racer DS or Asphalt Urban GT IMO. Polygon counts look a lot higher (especially the car models). The polygons also look very solid (perspective correction) and I don't see any scenery pop up either.