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From C&VG.com:
Christmas came early last week for British game retailers as the buying public voted with their cash. Sales for all platforms rocketed as the holiday season truly reared its money-covered head.
PlayStation 2 sold a whopping 92,440 consoles in the week ending November 30, a 39 percent increase on the previous week. Xbox was also sitting pretty, having moved 21,318 machines, up 42 percent on the week before.
GameCube may be licking its wounds in third place in the console race, but there are sure to smiles at Nintendo today. Miyamoto's purple marvel sold 10,065 units, up 27 percent week over week, and GBA cleared up with 27,495 machines settling neatly into British gamers' hands. The figure marks a 21 percent increase over the previous week.
Just look at that PS2 figure. Look at it. Ask any retailer and they'd tell you that it's the stuff of dreams. Here's looking to next week. We can barely contain ourselves.
Patrick Garratt
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90,000 units!??! Bloody hell! Is there anyone out there that doesn't actually have one?
Xbox is still doing quite nicely as well - good stuff. Nintendo are still raking the money in with two machines on the market.
Christmas came early last week for British game retailers as the buying public voted with their cash. Sales for all platforms rocketed as the holiday season truly reared its money-covered head.
PlayStation 2 sold a whopping 92,440 consoles in the week ending November 30, a 39 percent increase on the previous week. Xbox was also sitting pretty, having moved 21,318 machines, up 42 percent on the week before.
GameCube may be licking its wounds in third place in the console race, but there are sure to smiles at Nintendo today. Miyamoto's purple marvel sold 10,065 units, up 27 percent week over week, and GBA cleared up with 27,495 machines settling neatly into British gamers' hands. The figure marks a 21 percent increase over the previous week.
Just look at that PS2 figure. Look at it. Ask any retailer and they'd tell you that it's the stuff of dreams. Here's looking to next week. We can barely contain ourselves.
Patrick Garratt
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90,000 units!??! Bloody hell! Is there anyone out there that doesn't actually have one?
Xbox is still doing quite nicely as well - good stuff. Nintendo are still raking the money in with two machines on the market.
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gerrid wrote:
> And the UK's population is over 60m, if you count all the British
> rules countries such as Gibraltar and the channel Islands.
Why don't you count in the Falklands while you're at it?
> And the UK's population is over 60m, if you count all the British
> rules countries such as Gibraltar and the channel Islands.
Why don't you count in the Falklands while you're at it?
Then you've all the people who buy a PS2 and use it as a dust cover for their Gamecube.
I know so many people who have PS2's but never use them. It's kind of like a fashion accessory, an ugly one at that.
I know so many people who have PS2's but never use them. It's kind of like a fashion accessory, an ugly one at that.
Microchips wrote:
> People do buy PS2's just to sell on Ebay, so it depends how many
> people actually do that.
This many.
And that many people actually buy more than two games for their PS2s.
And these figures don't account for the amount of people who return or sell on their PS2s by other means either.
> People do buy PS2's just to sell on Ebay, so it depends how many
> people actually do that.
This many.
And that many people actually buy more than two games for their PS2s.
And these figures don't account for the amount of people who return or sell on their PS2s by other means either.
Don't forget the illegal immigrants taking the figure to about 62m.
People do buy PS2's just to sell on Ebay, so it depends how many people actually do that.
And the UK's population is over 60m, if you count all the British rules countries such as Gibraltar and the channel Islands.
erm, 60 million is the population, not the number of houses. I would be incredibly surprised if the number of full-time populated households exceeded 30million. In fact it's quite possibly lower.
50+ million - note the '+'
Last official estimate I heard a few years ago was around 56-58 million, which is 50+ million.
Still, if it is now over 60 million, your claim is made that much more ludicrous. Have it your way, by all means!
Last official estimate I heard a few years ago was around 56-58 million, which is 50+ million.
Still, if it is now over 60 million, your claim is made that much more ludicrous. Have it your way, by all means!
50 million household for 60million people? Are you sure?
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Take away all the old folk who won't have one, and all the infants too
> young to use one, and you're averaging more than one per household.
You sure you're an accountant?!
50+ million households in the UK, and 10 million PS2s sold means that most must have more than one? Good grief. Who's figures have you been fcuking up recently then?
> Take away all the old folk who won't have one, and all the infants too
> young to use one, and you're averaging more than one per household.
You sure you're an accountant?!
50+ million households in the UK, and 10 million PS2s sold means that most must have more than one? Good grief. Who's figures have you been fcuking up recently then?
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