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In Russia, Nintendo DS buys you!
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Pureauthor
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Um... yay for Russia.
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Was it Sonyland prior?
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Was it Sonyland prior?
ND's handlin of last gen N's systems was laughable. Though I was suprised that Wii actually appeared as pre-order item in oline shops.
Russia is pirateland AND emerging Sonyland. Sony finally understood the potential and doin lotso work to conquer and grow the market here. Sony Experience + OPS2 + marketing == PS2 is growin each day in Russia and PSP is doin very much ok. A lot of ppl I know bought it there and they never owned portable. U can buy it from more and more places there.
Still Sony's progress is plagued by relatively high prices for softwere and low income of most people.
Russia is pirateland AND emerging Sonyland. Sony finally understood the potential and doin lotso work to conquer and grow the market here. Sony Experience + OPS2 + marketing == PS2 is growin each day in Russia and PSP is doin very much ok. A lot of ppl I know bought it there and they never owned portable. U can buy it from more and more places there.
Still Sony's progress is plagued by relatively high prices for softwere and low income of most people.
Naked Snake
Member
Tempy said:
It is actually Sony land as far as consoles are concerned. SCE has an official presence there and they strictly inforced anti-piracy laws on PS2 games years ago. My nephew lives in Moscow and he tells me you can't buy pirated PS2 games anywhere there anymore.
Good job on Nintendo's part to start officially distributing games there.
E-phonk said:
Well, that's totally right. It is PC LAND with 300M official market growing 25% each year. PC gamin have huge roots in here. It was pirateland and people mostly bought pc's not for gamin but tried free pcgamin and loved it or so much. Then publishers came and they now fight piracy for 10 years. New PC games are sold mostly in jewels -- $4-10 for new localized games. Yes, 300M market with this prices and still piracy issues. Top pc titles can make 1M copies there alone.
Console wise -- it is Sonyland. Sony is takin new territories and that's really advantage of being market leader.
I'm sure Wii will do much better then Cube here, but if N really want it's consoles to start of it ll have to make whole another push.
Yes, ppl just take PSP into their hands and it's irresistible. Functionality is also a huge reason, so from sales i wouldnt say much ppl really care about gameplay.
(I will import DS Lite
-- yes import cauze it's almost $200 in Russia )Naked Snake said:
Well, you can ) but it's much harder now.
Beer Monkey
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In Soviet Russia, DS touches you!