i know this is "Cool Story Bro" material , and probably some people know it already, but....

Lots of people around here have the wrong idea that "Americas" (thats the whole region not only US btw) , sells a lot because everyone is a huge gamer in the US and everyone buys millions of copies of every game that exists.

The fact is, everywhere outside of the "officially supported" countries (Japan, USA, UK) imports their games, most imports come from the US, thus counting them as sales in the "Americas" region , its also true for Consoles, its also the reason why tracking sales is a hard thing to do, you never know that this is actually an import or it isn't and you never know what is the "official" shops in every region , or the shops that import games, but my point is, the sales of Americas is the mass of every console that is imported in every other country , sure there is a lot of imports coming from UK or Japan, but the ones coming from US are about 5 times more, and thanks to 360 and Wii being region locked , all imports are coming from US now.

Tracking sales from all regions is an impossible job, unless the big companies decide to officially ship their products to those unsupported countries, we won't have this issue of not selling as much as "Americas"

Why would you import from the the usa? I thought people import from asia where its cheaper or from uk to the rest of europe cause its cheaper

Is it the biggest market in terms of sales?

Are web sales tracked? I thought online sales were not tracked so these imports would not get counted.

its not me , its the shops!

for the rest of Asia , reason is Region Locking, the 360  and Wii are region locked, and if they sell a US Wii or 360 without selling US games as well then they're screwing with the costumer, and since everyone likes their games in english rather than japanese, then they sell american consoles not asian ones, as for europe that is true, but again not everyone in europe imports UK consoles (i don't really know the reason really), most of the consoles they have come from US.

Do us 360's and wii's work over seas? Aren't the power outlets/voltages different? I think this would only apply to those in US army bases as they may have US outlets/voltages. I could very well be wrong though

after some research they do work

They're not bought online, they get "Shipped" unofficially , foreign companies buy them from the publishers and sell them to their countries at higher costs, they don't count as shipped but count as bought

publisher don't publish them outside of their publishing areas so they sell them to those companies in order to "Release" the games outside of their publishing region.

For example Nintendo of America publishes Mario in america only, so these small foreign companies buy a large number of Marios and then ship them to their home country, and make the price much higher to gain profit, this way these sales are going to count as sales for "america" not for that other country, because its not an official shipping.

it is cheaper to import from USA, PS3 costs about $420 in UK

We use adaptors like this for 360 and Wii.

PS : They're HEAVY (3 times heavier than the 360)

as for PS3 its region friendly,it works on all regions without an adaptor.

You do realise US games and consoles don't even workin many foreign countries? UK/Aus/Japan all use PAL and differing power supplies. you can't import the consoles without having additional hardware at home to run them and the games require you to have the US console (at least for the Xbox). Besides which the US is not even the cheapest place to buy from, people tend to import from the UK or Asia depending on region.