360 sold quite well.
Until all of them started to die. I know several people switching back to PS3 for that reason.
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PlayStation 4 sells 360.000 units in Spain (7:1 Ps4:XBO)
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360 sold quite well.
Until all of them started to die. I know several people switching back to PS3 for that reason.
cyberheater
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And that is were you make your first mistake. I'll not bother talking to your other bullshit.
Rogue_Ledr
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THATS IT!?!?!?!
I would've expected closer to 1 million.
360,000 seems really low for close to 1 year since launch.
Spain is not a small nation.
I would've expected closer to 1 million.
360,000 seems really low for close to 1 year since launch.
Spain is not a small nation.
This is easily the best thing ever made by man
I didnt mean to stir up anything. I did say "IF" didnt I?
Killroyskbg
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Having a large part of the demographic that normaly buys consoles unemployed and the country as a whole in a recesion does that to sales.
PS3 has sold 2.5M, in its entire life.
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Valkyria
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A 7:1 ratio has never been seen.
Spain is the fourth biggest macroaeconomic economy into eurozone but people (families) are into Romania or Bulgaria purchasing power levels (the lower).
LOL, cements even more the idea that Xbox has no idea about Europe
Honestly it doesn't seem like anyone is obsessed with these numbers. So I'm not really sure where this narrative is coming from.
Not even in the PS2/XBOX era? Hard to believe.
My fellow spaniards really love "la Plei".
FonkyByNature
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No surprise here. Sony and Playstation are a very popular brand in Europe and with reason, they do a good job of bringing their products with an international touch compared to MS who have a more US centric approach that doesn't work really well outside the US and maybe UK.
lol but no seriously is this word spelled correctly here? If so could some kind gaffer who understands Spanish pls tell me how to pronounce this? It fascinates me
OT: Holy shit! or Caca Santa! (I think that's what it means in spanish at least)
I love how your dramatic statement punctuates your inherent bias. MS has more cash on hand than the U.S. government, at the very least they'd try a different direction before pulling the plug on "Xbox".
q and a are close on the keyboard
haha excellent. Thanks....can't believe I didn't consider that
Valkyria
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It is just a victim of the spanish education system.
Sorry.
Truth be told I wanna get my hands on an X1 for Sunset Overdrive amongst other title that interest me, but I must face the reality that if I do get an X1, I am mostly likely investing in a console who's 1st and 3rd party support could "POTENTIALLY" shrink as the generation moves forward.
PS2 was simply a landslide. Biggest gaming success ever. No Xbox was sold. GameCube came for free in cereal boxes.
Xbox 360 was a hit. Wii was a hit. PS3 suffered a lot with that brutal 600 tag (I can't believe I paid that...) but recovered after the pricedrops.
Rogue_Ledr
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DAMN! Thats it? Not a big console market there I take it?
Rising_Hei
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And most of the new jobs that are made can't even let you live properly, so there's lots of poor people outside of that 25 %, sadly.
Good sales despite our situation
Good sales despite our situation
US is a single country, but it's basically the size of all of Europe. I don't see what's so surprising with that. You shouldn't compare a single European country to all of US, it would be much more accurate to compare the sales to a single ~Spain-size state (if you have any).
intheinbetween
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it was during the OG XBOX times
I was'nt speaking about myself in that last statement. I wrote that as an observation of the 1000s of comments made about X1 and MS here on GAF since the inital unveiling.
mario_O
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Things are not great in Spain right now, but nowhere near Romania, Bulgaria.. you have no idea what you're talking about. Spain is closer to Italy.
"España" (Spain in Spanish) with wooden fingers in a qwerty keyboard is "Espqñq"
Don't try to translate holy shit into Spanish, it simply doesn't work
FeiRR
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1 in 18 people bought it. That's like 16m in the USA.
As Jim Ryan says in this video from September, 100k sold in Poland, which is incredible (in 2012 it was 500k PS3s). I'd expect a similar ratio to X1, or maybe even 10:1.
Diprosalic
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spain is only 43 million people. 2.5 million is pretty damn good.
it's even better when you think that they got hit hard by the economy during its lifetime.
don't think the attachment rate in the USA is bigger.
serversurfer
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They spent 20M marketing the launch in Spain, and sold 36k by the end of the year. That's 555 in advertising per unit sold.
It's considerably cheaper for them to simply give XBones away than try to advertise them.
That can't be true...
intheinbetween
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So it's really not that big of a deal, then.
The Xbox was already unpopular, and with the way this generation started out with the MS blunders, it's not surprising to see this split.
Still, that sucks for MS. 20mil on marketing just to stay at equilibrium.
Edit: Wait, those numbers are wrong? /shrug
Bruno MB
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November 29, 2013 - Launch
December 9, 2013 - 80,000 LTD
December 23, 2013 - 134,000 LTD
January 31, 2014 - 181,000 LTD
June 12, 2014 - 275,000 LTD
October 14, 2014 - 360,000 LTD
Forecast (first 12 months) - 500,000 units
Launch-aligned, PS4 would be slightly behind PS3 which sold 350,000 units in its first 9 month of sales (March 23, 2007 - end of November, 2007)
Xbox One (first 10 months) - around 51,500 units
Xbox 360 (first 9 months) - 70,000 units
Xbox lifetime sales - 275,000 units
PlayStation 2 to Xbox ratio - 18:1
PlayStation 3 to Xbox 360 ratio as of January, 2014 - 2.5:1
PlayStation 4 to Xbox One ratio as of October, 2014 - 7:1