Less Than 10 000 Gp2x ?

[pocket]

Less than 10 000 GP2X sold at the end of 2006 ?

It's in french, but it says that the sales are quite low. The informations comes from two employees who left Game Park Holdings.

 

[rememberthe8bit]

Less than 10 000 GP2X sold at the end of 2006 ?

It's in french, but it says that the sales are quite low. The informations comes from two employees who left Game Park Holdings.

Wow, that seems really low... :blink: I guess, as the article said, Lik-Sang was indeed a big distributor. I just figured the 30000 to 50000 mark we saw earlier was just what GPH had sold to the various shops that carried the GP2X.

EDIT: Yeah, actually this seems to make sense. my August 1st 2006 GP2X has a serial that's only ~7000. If you factor in defects and stuff, I would think that only 15000 or so units could've been sold to customers.

 

[Yod4z]

yes the GP32 has been sell up to 25000 but in 4 years and the GP2x is in 1, 2 years

 

[Godmil]

That value seems kinda low, I mean since I joined this forum (just before the Mk2 came out) there has been about 6,000 members (I pressume almost all of them will have a gp2x). and this is just an English speaking site - if you add in the Korean users, etc, surely there has to be more than 10,000 units sold

 

[gaterooze]

craigix said it passed 30,000 units sold a little while ago. Was the article at the top referring to worldwide sales or only in Korea?

 

[pocket]

craigix said it passed 30,000 units sold a little while ago. Was the article at the top referring to worldwide sales or only in Korea?

Worldwide sales. GP people are not known for always telling the truth

 

[Mudi]

I'd take that article with a grain of salt, seems somewhat unreliable with no 'real' named sources.

The other article on the site right now is Gamepark (the original) declaring bankruptcy and going into liquidation. I'm a bit more inclined to believe that one what with GP's site being down and everything Sad times...

EDIT: Just noticed that that site gives Astonisha Story for GP32 a 5-star review... there goes all credibility, amirite? :lol: :lol:

@rememberthe8bit: the serial number doesn't mean anything useful, for one thing they are made in batches and for another I believe that all (or at least most) serial numbers obey a mod3 check.

 

[andyB911]

The other article on the site right now is Gamepark (the original) declaring bankruptcy and going into liquidation. I'm a bit more inclined to believe that one what with GP's site being down and everything Sad times...

RIP Gamepark.

Given the cost of trying to develop multiple machines at the same time with nothing to sell for what seems like years - this is hardly surprising. But still sad news.

 

[craigix]

If it's only 10,000 they are all in the UK, but we know they have a large scene in spain, germany etc.... so it is more than 10,000. I'd say it is still over 30,000 as they seemed quite excited when they beat the GP32 sales and that article does not name any sources.

 

[EvilDragon]

Well, interesting figure, but I sold about 1500 gp2x myself only in Germany, which is one of the smaller gp2x countries.
Craig sold at least 10 times as many as me... that's already more than 10.000... so...

 

[Laser]

If it's only 10,000 they are all in the UK, but we know they have a large scene in spain, germany etc.... so it is more than 10,000. I'd say it is still over 30,000 as they seemed quite excited when they beat the GP32 sales and that article does not name any sources.

I really hope this is wrong, but the original "we beat the GP32 sales" statement could have been weasel-words. For example, it could mean "in the same period", when of course nobody is likely to buy a GP32 instead of a GP2X. Or it may have meant "sales in first year" or similar, when the GP2X probably benefited from the existing GP32 user-base. Bit like Sony stated the PS3 has outsold the PS2 at end of 2006... :rolleyes:

The more troubling aspect of that article (admittedly I only read it via an automatic translation) was the two employees had jumped ship from GPH "before it sinks". Is GPH in trouble as well as GP?

 

[pocket]

If it's only 10,000 they are all in the UK, but we know they have a large scene in spain, germany etc.... so it is more than 10,000. I'd say it is still over 30,000 as they seemed quite excited when they beat the GP32 sales and that article does not name any sources.

Come on... Some people who left GPH these past months are the sources. And *you* know them.

10 000 at the end of 2006 is not very good. Disapointing.

For the people who can't trust this, here is a little interview (november), from someone else who worked for GPH : it explains very well how things work inside.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools

(Google translation, not very good, but better than nothing)

 

[Parkydr]

May be it's just MKII sales

 

[Mudi]

That's a good article/interview, thanks for the link.

I don't doubt that a source gave you that info, I just don't know if the number they give is correct, based on forum activity and other such things. I guess in time it'll all be sorted out.

 

[pocket]

If it's only 10,000 they are all in the UK, but we know they have a large scene in spain, germany etc.... so it is more than 10,000. I'd say it is still over 30,000 as they seemed quite excited when they beat the GP32 sales and that article does not name any sources.

I really hope this is wrong, but the original "we beat the GP32 sales" statement could have been weasel-words. For example, it could mean "in the same period", when of course nobody is likely to buy a GP32 instead of a GP2X. Or it may have meant "sales in first year" or similar, when the GP2X probably benefited from the existing GP32 user-base. Bit like Sony stated the PS3 has outsold the PS2 at end of 2006... :rolleyes:

The more troubling aspect of that article (admittedly I only read it via an automatic translation) was the two employees had jumped ship from GPH "before it sinks". Is GPH in trouble as well as GP?

It doesn't mean it will sink soon, you know. The exact same thing happened with Game Park a few years ago, people left the boat because of incredible things wich happened inside, but it took several years to completely sink.

 

[Alex.]

This is becoming quite worrying. If GPH goes bankrupt too, there goes the source for GP2X production and future open handhelds. Most chances are no other company will take the risk to enter such a low-selling market.

What happened to bringing the commercial games available on the Korean site over to the rest of the world, to different coloured GP2Xs, and of course to the cased BOB? Why are there no more updates on GPH's page? One decline leads to another, the final one of course being bankruptcy. Are the GPH people that oblivious to the rest of the world? Is this just a past-time business venture? It would certainly explain their negligent attitude.

Craig, Ed, why don't you throw your weight around more often? Whip those bums into shape! Also, why are the download versions of Payback and Vektar taking such a long time to happen? Trouble with the copy protection, or the bandwidth? (for Payback I assume it'd be a lot :X) The sooner you get them over, the more likely it is you'll have more sales on all fronts...

Also, what's the situation with Mr. Mirko's Ninja handheld? Perhaps the big distributors could fund the guy in a couple of years to get that handheld out as the next-gen GP2X?

- Alex

 

[craigix]

Who is the interview with? Sanghoon?

But the figures just don't add up... the Spain/France scene seems about the size of this one, then add in Germany, Turkey, USA... no matter how you work it out it is more than 10,000. We bought 3000 as long ago as christmas 2005!

 

[pocket]

Who is the interview with? Sanghoon?

But the figures just don't add up... the Spain/France scene seems about the size of this one, then add in Germany, Turkey, USA... no matter how you work it out it is more than 10,000. We bought 3000 as long ago as christmas 2005!

The interview is with FX Man, you know him too.
The 2 people mentioned in the first article are corean.

About the 10 000, it was "at the end of 2006", so you don't count the christmas sales, etc. It should be more today.

(About the scenes, the France one is really tiny, you can't compare it with the scene we had at the GP32 times)

I know this kind of news/interviews, etc. is not always welcome on a board of fans and that sellers won't admit that their product is not doing very well, but Game Park Holdings needs to be strongly shaken. If you guys won't do this, nobody will do it for you...

 

[Yod4z]

In France we don't have official reseller then the community is weak

 

[___]

yeah... i have got a good idea. let's panic. <_<