Sales figure story in The Mirror

[Tim Miller]

"Tim Miller" <ne...@economic-truth.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hmmm. That's very wide of the figures I saw yesterday in the FT,

I've got hold of the figures now. Here we go ... set your reader to a
fixed-width font.

All units in millions

NORTH AMERICA 2000 01 02 03 04 05 Total
PS2 1.3 6.2 6.0 6.5 5.5 5.0 30.5
Gamecube - 1.2 4.0 5.0 4.5 3.0 17.7
Xbox - 1.4 4.0 5.0 4.0 2.0 16.4
GBA - 4.7 6.5 7.0 6.5 7.0 31.7
Total 1.3 13.5 20.5 23.5 20.5 17.0 96.3

EUROPE 2000 01 02 03 04 05 Total
PS2 0.5 4.0 5.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 24.5
Gamecube - - 2.5 3.5 3.0 1.5 10.5
Xbox - - 2.0 3.0 3.0 1.5 9.5
GBA - 4.0 5.5 6.0 5.5 6.5 27.5
Total 0.5 8.0 15.0 18.5 16.5 13.8 72.8

ASIA 2000 01 02 03 04 05 Total
PS2 3.5 4.3 5.5 5.0 4.0 4.0 26.3
Gamecube - 1.5 3.5 4.0 3.0 2.0 14.0
Xbox - - 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 1.9
GBA - 7.0 7.0 7.0 6.0 4.0 31.0
Total 3.5 12.8 16.5 16.5 13.5 10.4 73.2

The fall off towards the end is due to newer consoles entering the market.
The source for the FT's figures is UBS Warburg.

Tim (tm)