could the uk become more important than japan to the games industry?????

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bdbdbd said:
As long as the most innovation comes from Japan, UK doesn't really compete Japan. Better question would be, that "could USA become more important to gaming market than Japan?". By sales it is, but look where the industrys driving force comes from.
Anyway, back to UK. If we look at only the console SW/HW sales numbers, it may be possible in a decade or two, but i still see it unlikely, unless recession of century (which could be coming) or China strikes Japan.

North America is already considerably more important than Japan. Sales are multiple times larger and close to half the games sold originate out of the US or Canada. EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Take Two, Activision, etc. are all NA companies.

Japan has two of the hardware companies but that still doesn't compare to what North America has done in the games industry over the past decade. In the software world, the Japanese monolithic game companies are seeing their power slowly dwindle while NA, and to a lesser extent Europe, pick up the slack. Even MS is making headway in the hardware department.