ethomaz
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I guess people are more thinking inline of EU without UK... only the countries XB1 and WiiU had similar numbers.
UK makes XB1 be way ahead.
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Germany sales update: PS4 3.25 million; Wii U 750K; XBO 710K
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UK makes XB1 be way ahead.
The Artisan
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playstation: 4
That's more than 4:1
xbox: 1
although honestly it doesn't look that bad.
Up to July 2016.
The article also mentions the following publisher top 3:
1. Ubisoft
2. Nintendo
3. EA
As of now, PS4 is flat when compared to PS3 in Japan. It's just killing it everywhere else. Someone posted it already but PS4 is at 3.2m after 2.5 years. PS3 had a LTD of alittle over 4m. That's a massive improvement.
Omnistalgic
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Lmao....
Pretty great numbers. I imagine this will get a pretty big boost with a cheaper PS4 and Neo on the market.
I don't think the PS4 will go much lower than the 200-250 EUR it has right now.
Welfare
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Thank you.
I was not aware of that, thanks.
I do think it has an uphill struggle there. Software in general is just not really performing as well as it should, regardless of hardware, and there seems to be just not enough interest really. Which I find very sad.
That's what will keep consoles from reaching those insane numbers like the PS2 did.
PS2 at Aldi for 99.
Never forget.
Let's stop wondering why every other market "likes Playstation", and rather start wondering why people in English speaking countries buy Microsoft consoles.
KillerMan91
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This is untrue. While PC gaming is more popular in Germany than in other western European nations console gaming still takes the biggest amount of revenue at least when it comes to traditional software
This graph is from 2014:
It also includes Steam. Doesn't include F2P or MMOs (that is why mobile revenue is so low). Considering the utter dominance of PS4 in console space It's the biggest platform in Germany at least for traditional games.
LukasTaves
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If that was the case ps4 numbers wouldn't be any better.
KZObsessed
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Good start for Sony, I guess.
DriftingSpirit
Member
You may want to reconsider.
Huum, the article is usual to round the numbers, something even by a massive margin, like a 10k difference could be 50k to 70k for Wii U which is a big range.
But ok, i'll update the article with Wii U too.
Because $.
EA completely screwed MS on that one because it's not even an exclusive feature since only a small percentage of FUT owners will actually get access to legends. That's why most don't care about it despite some Microsoft parrots in the gaming media with no knowledge how FUT works, when it was announced declared it the biggest exclusive ever bought by any company and something that would definitely move the balance of power between PS4 and XB1 before launch.
Quite remarkable considering MS bought the exclusive rights to have Legends as a very rare item in FUT card drops. Imagine that, buying something to give your consumers but then it's no guarantee they will ever get that content.
Corporation assuming market shares would come out the same as the single gen before it, in ignorance of all variables that have changed. Or had changed before that, leading to last gen's outcome in the first place.
Can't save everyone.
DriftingSpirit
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How does your statement make what he said untrue? You don't have to buy digital games to play on a PC.
KillerMan91
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?
That chart of course includes also retail sales. It's revenue of both retail and digital combined. Even assuming that MMOs and F2P games double the revenue for PC and do nothing for consoles it would be 50-50 marketshare. So ''Correction: not a lot of people gaming on consoles over there.'' is absolutely bollocks.
Raiden1018
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Xbox needs more trucking Sims.
Pretty sure it has.
It blew my mind going to Germany and seing games like Arslan Musou going fir 19.99e when here the still go for 69.99e
The chart says "[...] digital games (in million €
".He said not a lot of people play console in Germany (compared to the US) which is true. Most people play on the PC which is also true.
Thank you, the original post bugged me hahaha.
KillerMan91
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The chart says "[...] digital games (in million €
He said not a lot of people play console in Germany (compared to the US) which is true. Most people play on the PC which is also true.
Someone said that not a lot of people game in Germany (as he thought these hw numbers are low) and he replied with that not a lot of people game on consoles. That is bs when console market is bigger than PC market in Germany. Also if that chart only includes digital sales (from the source I thought it was both retail+digital) that actually paints even more console heavy picture as while retail sales for PC games in Germany are definitely way higher than in most countries consoles are still the kings of retail even in Germany (when GFK still released the top 100 every week from Germany PS4 alone dominated that chart in terms of entries).
serversurfer
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You seem to be confusing cause and effect here
LifeBrandRobot
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PS4 slayin in Germany. I wonder how it's doing in Canada. Compared to XB1, PS4s barely go on sale here and the price even went up after launch.
ClosingADoor
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I think there has been a FIFA bundle every year already. I got FIFA for free at launch with the Xbox One here in Europe also.
SpiceMelange
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Is the market similar in Europe in general? I never thought the Xbox to be so close to the Wii U in terms of life sales.
VincentMatts
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Lower than the WiiU is embarrassing.
There is no correlation between people buying games and people playing games, as I already stated. You don't need to buy anything to play games on the PC which is why the PC market has far more players than the console market (saw a graphic last year and PC dominated).
Nah, that chart is just messed up. They probably had no idea what they were doing and named it wrong.
Not sure what exactly goes in there (and VR is debatable) but this seems to be a decent one.
Oitside of the UK, pretty much yeah. I think Nintendo could've quite comfortably "won" consolation second prize if they would have gone the same lengths as MS to sell it. But they decided against flogging the horse.
KillerMan91
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There is no correlation between people buying games and people playing games, as I already stated. You don't need to buy anything to play games on the PC which is why the PC market has far more players than the console market (saw a graphic last year and PC dominated).
Nah, that chart is just messed up. They probably had no idea what they were doing and named it wrong.
Not sure what exactly goes in there (and VR is debatable) but this seems to be a decent one.
Well I still don't think anyone can claim that ''not a lot of people gaming on consoles in Germany'' though (when the market still makes more revnue than PC market even in that graph) but fair enough.
you mean non-UK Europe likes playstation. Business as usual
Is it really?
Since everyone buys a PS4 over an Xbox anyway those who want another console would rather get something completely different like the Wii U instead of another PS4 but worse. At least from my experience.
In comparison with the US, sure, but it has a way higher population (as others pointed out to the original poster) but as a percentage...the numbers are high enough.
Portable consoles/handhelds are really dying though. The mobile market is killing them (as elsewhere) and it's also eating into desktop browser gaming which was pretty big 10 years ago.
So is Germany the biggest console market in EU now or is it still the UK? I dont think we've had UK figures for the whole market for a while.
Also when it comes to the XO wouldnt Germany be only behind the UK in sales? I cant think of other EU countries that are big enough to do such numbers. France seems to favour Nintendo...
ps3ud0 8)
Also when it comes to the XO wouldnt Germany be only behind the UK in sales? I cant think of other EU countries that are big enough to do such numbers. France seems to favour Nintendo...
ps3ud0 8)
I'm guessing one reason the XBox has a hard time is that when the 360 launched most of its major exclusives did not release in Germany (Condemned, Dead Rising, Gears of War, Crackdown were all indexed or simply not released), hurting its early appeal and preventing it from building much of a fanbase that could carry over to the One.
Also given how fast they ran at the aisle he might be bracing himself a bit just to stop from his run.
Also given how fast they ran at the aisle he might be bracing himself a bit just to stop from his run.
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