Game consoles in NZ

Mar 30th, 2009

Pedagogy, Professional Development, conference, games, reflection

As part of a presentation I am preparing I needed some data on Gaming consoles in New Zealand.

A quick search revealed some interesting statistics – this is information about the Sony products but it gives perspective to the adoption of gaming concoles across NZ (stats for 2008). PlayStation:

accounted for 67 percent of all software sales and 55 percent of gaming consoles
selling almost 100,000 consoles in 2008
install base across all platforms is now almost 730,000 units
PS2 install base 525,000 consoles.
PlayStation Portable install base over 142,000 units.

Interesting… My guess is that over 75% of NZ house holds will have a gaming console of some shape and form.

Is digital technology shaping and moulding our youth…

Source: http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/news/582ECEC6FCA88A54CC257562000E9E76

A global perspective – http://www.vgchartz.com/

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Dave Winter Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 8:10 pm

Yes yes yes consoles aplenty. We have noticed that our wireless network has brought many a psp out of the woodwork. The most prolific growth in a single personal device has been the ipod touch. If only it included a phone and camera the results would be even more prolific. I get the feeling that the gender demographic for gaming is slowly becoming less skewed towards male usage also. The girls in our xbox project are natural collaborators and users. http://xbox-colab.wikispaces.com

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