Support NeoGAF

[D.Lo]

Well they are shipments, not necessarily sales. It'd be nice to see actual sell-through numbers if possible.

That's even more puzzling to me.

I'm surprised Nintendo would even bother selling there, if they in fact have. MS and Sony no doubt already have supply lines for all their other products, so adding a console to existing lines is easier, but why would Nintendo bother to sell 50k that would probably be better served somewhere else that buys games? I'd be guessing all these consoles are imports from elsewhere, or at the very most only semi-officially sub-distributed. And given the numbers are so low, the sub-distributor might as well have just grabbed an allocation or two from France or somewhere.

IE shipments are just whatever someone has bothered to bring into the country.

 

[Haunted]

In repatriation, Captain Smoker should PM me for a free tag.

Dragona knows how to play them.

and here I was all ready to grab my pitchfork and torches and everything.

Dragona Akehi
You Shall Be Judged...j/k have a free tag
(Today, 12:28 PM)
Reply | Quote

:lol

 

[Hesemonni]

450 million dollar (?) PC industry? Piracy must be about 99% on the PC if PS2 is at 90%.

So, how does this differ from the rest of world?

Spoiler

Yes I went there.

 

[Pureauthor]

So, how does this differ from the rest of world?

Spoiler

Yes I went there.

I take offense to the insinuation that Asians pirate 99% of our software!

Spoiler

It's closer to 99.99%

 

[Fafalada]

IE shipments are just whatever someone has bothered to bring into the country.

All 3 have official presence in Russia now (Sony was 1st though IIRC - with PS2).

 

[Kinan]

Yea, the original article is from quite serious mainstream website/publisher, so the numbers are in general correct. The author of the article is clearly not that familiar with the videogames industry though, so some phrases from there would make gaf laugh.

Also 50k for xbox360 is from official distributor only, but there is quite big "gray" market for xboxs in Russia and they say that the recent price drop there was aimed on fighting the import of x360. So the total installed base there is bigger.

I dont know where they got estimates for piracy though, article only says "experts".

 

[Fafalada]

I dont know where they got estimates for piracy though, article only says "experts".

Attach rates?
When a console has 1:1 attach, you can safely assume 90+% piracy.

 

[Gahiggidy]

In Soviet Russia, Wii waggles you.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Well, you get banned for posting "Weekly World News reports Bush has a love triangle with Condoleeza and Batboy" stories in Poligaf, so I don't know why there'd be any difference for sales age.

So, they make up the numbers? Or how do I have to understand this?

 

[Shiggy]

"I neither need Uncharted nor S.T.A.L.K.E.R."


Are Russian folks even allowed to decide which console to buy? If it was like their elections I'd say no.

But that's a different story...
I think with increasing prosperity it is a given that also Russians console sales will increase.

 

[nubbe]

Finland $24,07 5.307.220 127.752.880 $

I thought Nokialand was rich. The spending seem low.

 

[Branskins]

What happened to sp0rsk by the way?

 

[Tideas]

Finland $24,07 5.307.220 127.752.880 $

I thought Nokialand was rich. The spending seem low.

probably averages out for more NDS games than 360/PS3 games

(neutral) Captain Smoker
Banned for 10 minutes and all I got was this tag
(Today, 09:07 AM)

 

[Safe Bet]

"I neither need Uncharted nor S.T.A.L.K.E.R."

Ok..

The shirt off thing while fishing I can buy but no one goes hunting through brush without a shirt on.

Are Russian folks even allowed to decide which console to buy? If it was like their elections I'd say no.

Take the sty from your own eye before you worry about your brother's sty.

 

[Orlics]

In Soviet Russia, PS3 outsells 360!

 

[nli10]

These numbers are very confusing.

On the one hand PS3 could be higher in sales because it can't be pirated like the other systems, but you don't pirate the hardware just the software. This would logically dictate that more hardware would be sold for the systems that could have pirate games made for them easily. Yet all 3 systems have very similar sales!

I guess that in Russia piracy doesn't effect the choice of systems bought (or all dodgy chipped systems are not counted for sales tracking).


I've visited the Virtually Groundless Countz site message-board to shudder at the inaccuracies in their weekly UK sales threads. Their enthusiasm is much greater than their knowledge, and anyone brave enough to spend enough time there to find a genuine fact deserves a mighty tag indeed.

 

[Azzurri]

From Russia with Love.

 

[lordfroakie]

V G Chartz.

You do know Chartz is...nvm

 

[The Elite]

From Russia with Love.

From Russia with Hardware Numbers would have been a better thread title.

 

[Hitmeneer]

Wow ... wouldn't think that the xbox360 piracy rates would be higher then the Wii. Also the PS3 is already cracked as far as I know. But only on a really small scale.

I'm really not suprised however by the rates. It's quiet known that Russia, like China, is a walhalla for piracy.

 

[avaya]

Also the PS3 is already cracked as far as I know. But only on a really small scale.

Like you mean not cracked at all?

 

[dr_rus]

PC piracy is quite low in Russia actually.
PC games cost about $20-30 here and they are mostly localized while console games cost $80-100 and are mostly English versions.
Oh, and most PC games here use Starforce, yeah.

That Commersant.ru article is full of shit in every detail (f.e. they think that low piracy on PS3 is a result of the prices for Blu-Ray recorders :lol ) so I wouldn't trust it's numbers.
And the number of Wii sold isn't given directly, it's just said to be 'on par' with X360 sales.

As for the PS3 sales, according to this (in Russian) they're closer to 100k not 60k. Which is actually more in line with my own expectations because of the power of PlayStation brand here in Russia.

 

[Hitmeneer]

Like you mean not cracked at all?

I heard from a friend that he wanted to get his PS3 modded, because a friend of him also did it. I live in Holland and he had to get his PS3 to Germany for that. But I have never seen it, so I'm not 100% sure but I don't see any reason why he would lie about it.

 

[Safe Bet]

I heard from a friend that he wanted to get his PS3 modded, because a friend of him also did it. I live in Holland and he had to get his PS3 to Germany for that. But I have never seen it, so I'm not 100% sure but I don't see any reason why he would lie about it.

That's called "talking out of your ass".