Japan up

[Hyruken]

justinian said:

Hyruken said:
Hardware sales are down 416k on the same 4 weeks of january last year. That is pretty bad. In the next few weeks this time last year we had some Wii games like Smash Bros so expect the numbers this year to fall even further. As some guy pointed out yesterday (that guy would be me) the UK now has a bigger gaming industry then Japan. Time to remove Japan from the front page perhaps?

Japan has more than twice the population and a higher HDI than the UK.

That's why it matters more than the UK....I think.

 

 

Not really about that though is it. You could say China or India were more important because they have a population each of over 2billion people. What is important is not the geographical place in the world but the amount of computer hardware/game sales. And now the UK is growing fast while Japan is shrinking. Not just in sales but in making of games too. Titles such as GTA4 etc.. have done better then any Japanese game recently. The 21st century would appear to show the gap between Japan and UK in gaming terms is now very small. Not bad for a place with half the population.