Russian Playstation hardware sales *Update*

Some more details about Russian Playstation sales including past fiscal year numbers, FY09 forecasts, and PS3 attach rates;



Firstly SCEE's PS3 comparison to Xbox 360 and Wii, although no numbers for their estimates for the other two consoles.



They claim 5 games sold for every PS3, which works out at about 1,000,000 units of software.



Here we have annual sales of PS3 for the fiscal year ending March 31 with forecasts for FY09.

FY09 72,000 (260,000)
FY08 104,500 (188,000)
FY07 83,500 (83,500)

It's interesting to note that they expect a sharp decline in PS3 sales despite the release of the PS3 slim. Russia has been especially hard hit by the global economic crisis.



The same for PSP:

FY09 227,700 (850,000)
FY08 237,600 (622,300)
FY07 N/A (384,700)

Unlike PS3, PSP is forecast to sell only slightly less than the previous year.



Total PS2, PS3, and PSP sales are forecast to be 2,060,000 by the end of the fiscal year, 950,000 of which will be PS2. They also forecast 2,150,000 units of software sold this fiscal year across all Playstation platforms.

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Russian Playstation hardware sales

Sony have announced that combined sales of PSP and PS3 have passed 1 million in Russia, the split being;

PSP: 800,000
PS3: 210,000

As no independant sales tracker tracks sales in Russia these figures are most probably sold to retailers.

They also claim 150,000 Russian PSN accounts have downloaded 3,000,000 items of content.

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For comparison Sony last claimed sales of 600,000 PSP, 170,000 PS3 and over 1,000,000 PS2 back in March 2009.

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Russian Video Game Industry Association to be Formed in October

From this week's MCV;

‘Russian ELSPA’ to form at October conference

RUSSIA is set to officially swear in its first video games trade association.

The National Russian Association of Game Industry will be unveiled at new trade show the All-Russian Conference in October.

Organisers of ACGi also hope to help establish a ‘Committee of Games Industry Development’ to improve links with publishers, developers and educators both inside and outside of Russia.

The conference will boast an expo, lectures, press conferences and various networking events.

ACGi takes place in take place in the town of Dubna from October 27th to 29th and has backing from the Russian Government.

“ACGi will become the bridge between Russian and the global games business,” said Konstantin Popov, CEO of co-organiser Biart Studio.

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