{"id":1633,"date":"2007-06-08T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T22:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1633"},"modified":"2012-11-23T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T23:38:19","slug":"pal-ps3-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/pal-ps3-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"PAL PS3 Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1635\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1635\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1635\" title=\"carrefour-ps3-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/carrefour-ps3-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PS3 ad from European retailer Carrefour.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>JUNE 8, 2007 \u2022 In a guest editorial for trade magazine <em>MCV<\/em>, SCEE president and CEO David Reeves reveals that more than1 million PS3s have been sold across all PAL territories in Europe and Australia:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of breakdown by Euro territories, the U.K. did very well. They are probably up to 25% of business, and we\u2019re particularly pleased with Iberia and France. They are neck and neck. Also this time we launched into our distributor territories, such as the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The Middle East and Russia are quite a lucrative markets, with a lot of wealthy people there. If we include places like San Marino and the Vatican, we\u2019ve got about 107 territories on board in total \u2013 that means we\u2019re about 95% of the way there. And we\u2019ve done that in 10 weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: The big success for the PlayStation brand has been creating a true global business.\u00a0 SCEE has been particularly strong, getting as much as 80% market charge versus the competition.\u00a0 A key advantage for the PlayStation 3 is the continued strength of the low cost PS2 and also a portable option with the PSP.\u00a0 The obvious challenge the platform faces is a high price tag and a focus on high definition technology in markets that may not be ready to go so high-end.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 8, 2007 \u2022 In a guest editorial for trade magazine MCV, SCEE president and CEO David Reeves reveals that more than1 million PS3s have been sold across all PAL territories in Europe and Australia: &#8220;In terms of breakdown by Euro territories, the U.K. did very well. They are probably up to 25% of business, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}