The 3rd Party Balance Sheet of Terror

[amirnetz]

BKK2 said:

amirnetz said:

No. Look at the HD Consoles sales (PS3+360) for the last month (not last year) and you'll see that it is about 5% (actually a bit less). 

Maybe for the 360. For PS3 Japan is about 15% of it's Global sales, inline with Japan's overall market share. Anyway, it seems pretty clear that the reason you wish to ignore Japan is because of 360's negligible sales there.

Even for the PS3 Japan is currently only 7% of the sales on a good week (17K in Japan out of 240K WW). So 360 or PS3, Japan is just too small to affect the WW trends. And I am not looking at the fairly recent weeks where the PS3 was as low as 4K.

To be fair, historically Japan used to be relatively a much console larger market than it is today. But the rest of the world grew well and Japan is shrinking. Right now, Japan is not a factor.