goddog said:
Hyruken said:
darthdevidem01 said:
@seece
as UK is a small market
overtracking/undertracking byt more than say 20K is worthy of an adjustment imo |
UK is a small market?.........How did nobody else pick up this?
The UK performs better then Japan in the console market now days, does that make Japan a small market? In fact UK is now the 2nd biggest console market in the world.
Compare just 2009 sales
Wii = 822k in UK and 484k in Japan = UK sold 338k more or 69% more then Japan.
PS3 = 282k in UK and 503k in Japan = UK sold 221k less or 43% less then Japan.
360 = 416k in UK and 198k in Japan = UK sold 218k more or 47% more then Japan.
PS2 = 101k in UK and 128k in Japan = UK sold 27k less or 21% lss then Japan.
Total for console sales 2009 = 1.621m Console sales in UK and 1.313m console sales in Japan. Meaning UK has sold 308k or 20% more consoles then Japan.
Considering Japan has a 127m population and UK has a 61m population that puts it in even bigger context.
So it would be interesting to know how you define small market exactly as im guess you are comparing to a country with a population of over 300m people?
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I had never done the numbers on that, it paints a bleak picture for home consoles in japan...... does this chart hold up with handhelds?
and do you think after economic recovery this will change? japan has been hit harder then most other areas due to dependency on trade strong currency, and a national habit of decreasing spending in anticipation of hard times far more then any other major economy which slows down recovery of domestic market
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The UK was also hit very harshly by the recession, thanks to our huge dependence on the financial sector (largest in the world, if that means muchm at the moment).
