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Middle East Sees Surge In Console Use

Posted by simoniker on from the antartica-also-doubled-console-base-to-two dept.

Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for their report on the expansion of the traditionally quiet videogame market in the Middle East, covering Sony's announcement that "...combined sales of the PSone and PS2 have broken the 3 million unit mark... making the region into the fastest growing games market in the world - with sales expected to double for PS2 next year." The article also, interestingly, points out: "Sony's success in the area lends further weight to Europe's claim to be the world's largest games market."

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  1. PS2's for misiles by cybergrue · · Score: 4, Funny
    Rmember that story a couple of years back about how Iraq was trying to acquire PS2's as components for missile guidence systems. PlayStation 2: Iraq Scores Hordes of PS2s at US Gamers' Expense

    I wonder how many units this acounted for. Then again maybe this acounted for some of these units as well. Buy Bush a PlayStation 2