Wow…. really? Only that much?!

Posted by James | Filed under Gaming

There was a posting on gamesindustry.biz denoting the latest milestones of the console install base:

  • NDS – 9.1m
  • Wii – 5.4m
  • Xbox 360 – 3.9m
  • PSP – 3.3m
  • PlayStation 3 – 2.2m
  • DSi – 0.3m

I always forget how relatively small we are as a country – especially when we hear how we’re one of the more rampant consumer markets for computer games in Europe. We always go on about how much of a runaway success the Wii is but, in reality, in the UK it’s only got 1.4 million  over the 360…. obviously, the PS3 is lagging pretty far behind.

The Nintendo DS by comparison is a behemoth. I know when the occasional DS versus PSP discussions break out (usually in the American-centric forums i visit) there is an overriding notion that the PSP has decent install base but not decent game support. This does not appear to be true for the PSP/DS over here. It has a decent install base (though not for the length of time it’s been on the market) but it doesn’t look worth developing for when you could develop a game for the 9 million DSes out there with a lower overall budget.

I guess you learn something new every day!

Permalink | July 2nd, 2009

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