J_Allard said:
NanakiXI said: IDK what some people are denying, but Japan looks pretty important to me. Might as well say the UK isn't important to the 360, Wii or PS3 as they failed to crack 10mil there UK Hardware by Platform Platform Weekly (change) Total X360 9,155 (-2%) 8,897,981 3DS 8,684 (-1%) 2,000,369 PS3 7,498 (-8%) 5,865,772 PSV 1,809 (-30%) 329,498 WiiU 1,769 (-6%) 143,418 Wii 725 (-22%) 8,709,626 PSP 458 (-11%) 4,514,460 DS 171 (-10%) 12,955,498 Total 30,269 (-7%) Japan Hardware by Platform Platform Weekly (change) Total 3DS 48,641 (-35%) 11,461,372 PS3 12,585 (-28%) 9,284,826 PSV 12,457 (-37%) 1,537,195 WiiU 7,285 (-38%) 918,660 PSP 6,382 (-25%) 19,743,743 Wii 1,329 (-31%) 12,718,802 X360 391 (-19%) 1,640,968 DS 56 (-18%) 32,981,898 Total 89,126 (-34%) |
Japan's population is double the UK and for home consoles you're talking 23.6 million sold in Japan and 23.5 in the UK. Soon enough even with double the population, Japan will be behind the UK. Furthermore we're saying Japan is not important to MS. They have 1.6 million sold there all generation. In the UK they have almost 9 million. How is that relateable at all?
Plus, home console sales in Japan have been down 2 generations in a row. A small percentage from generation five to six, but so far in generation seven, the drop is over 21%. And there's no evidence it won't be even worse next gen. I don't think VGChartz has UK numbers going back that far but I doubt you can say the same about that market.
Japan is already irrelevant for MS and soon enough it will be for Sony as well.
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