Europe to pass Americas as biggest video market by FY '09

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FaRmLaNd said:
This has been a long time coming. Europe has a massive population and a high standard of living. Its not surprising at all that it'll become bigger then the American market. That hardware sales have been faster for a while now, the software sales aren't there yet though.

 

 Europe doesn't have an all that huge population compared to Americas.

South America can be subtracted, as it's fairly insignifficant.

But, in reality, you can subtract all the members of the previous Soviet Union. They are the main ones in "Other Europe" and they stand for ~ 6M so far. That's 10% of the total. They have a 300-350M population.

Subtract that, and you see that Europe is really somewhere around 375M vs 350M Americas. Their video game possible populations are almost even.