Comments on: South African Console Sales Stats Revealed – Winners and Losers

By: Derick

Derick — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:32:47 +0000

Im actually surprised the DS sold so many units.

By: easy

easy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:30:16 +0000

umm a service bundled with a product is still a sale, you just pay it off over time unaware of the fact that the special deal is not so special.

By: dislekcia

dislekcia — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:08:59 +0000

Remember that those PSP sales are directly on the back of all the bundle deals that popped up: Cellphone contracts came with PSPs, DSTV and gym contracts had PSP options, heck even Telkom offers PSP deals now (maybe so that you have something to do while waiting around for them). That clever bundle marketing made a lot of people go “Well, I can get one without really trying, so why not?”

The DS sales stats are due to its late arrival and horrible support. Buying a DS game locally felt like a crime until a few years ago.

I’d love to see attach rates per console/handheld. That would be awesome.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:17:12 +0000

What would be more interesting is the software sales between ps3 and xbox360.Pirating games is still very much rife in SA and since there are no copies on ps3, it would be interesting to see the difference.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:21:02 +0000

I highly suspect that it only includes from when retailers did the swopouts, before MI Digital, later Powercare took over the warranty.

By: batman

batman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:11:23 +0000

“In the interests of openness, it should also be said that the install base figure includes bricked consoles with that naughty RRoD and other causes of gaming doom.”

By: eXpZA

eXpZA — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:45:45 +0000

30 000 – 50 000 replacement units? No ways. These numbers to not include units that were replaced by MiD/Powercare, as they are not “sold”

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:19:58 +0000

“So SA is the only country where:
360 outsells the wii, but PSP outsells the ds.”

just keep in mind that these figures are for lifetime sales, so you need to take into account how long the consoles have been available in SA. The figures don’t show what is currently selling more on a month-by-month basis. If you have like R30 000 or so you can get GfKsa to organise the rest of the stats for you

By: batman

batman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:23:03 +0000

Those figures also include all replacement 360′s, so I think we are looking at about 50 000 to 70 000 actually sales.

By: Fox1

Fox1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:58:18 +0000

Another BIG question: How many of the 360′s are Arcade units? :pouty: