WarhawkRules said:
USA is a country, not a continent, you stup... ah forget it |
Where in NJ5s post did he mistake USA for a continent. He said that the USA is the biggest inividual market, which is true.
To be honest the reason it is tracked like this is probably because of Nintendo, Sega and Sony.... early on Nintendo used to give financial reports giving just domestic and overseas figures... domestic being just Japan, and then the rest seperately. Eventually they seperated "Americas" so that there were 3 major regions. Japan still at that time being a major region in and of itself (I mean the PS2 sold 20 million + there, which is only half what it sold in the other two regions despite the populations being 3-5 times as much)
Since NPD there has been a growing number of interviews where the state of the market in the USA alone is mentioned, but the official reports are still given as the whole of America and the "other" which is mostly Europe, but included Australia Africa and some parts of Asia.
There is another factor here which is Television... with the far East using NTSC which is presumably slightly different to NTSC for America... while Europe and some other places use PAL. But then why are the far Eastern non-Japan countries, which I guess use the same TVs as Japan (like Korea) counted in "other" instead of with Japan.
