Japan as a "region" on VGC?

[hatmoza]

kowenicki said:

hatmoza said:

RolStoppable said:

Japan rocks and deserves its own charts. Just because you don't want to see Microsoft's low numbers over there showing up on the front page every week isn't a good enough reason to lump it in with something else.

In addition to the main reason mentioned by Montana, Japan is still the home of a good number of important publishers and developers. Obviously they will also take their home country in consideration when making games. Therefore the hardware sales numbers of Japan are very important too. Much moreso than those of the UK will ever be, not only because the UK doesn't have as many publishers and developers, but more importantly because they tend to orientate themselves more by the American market anyway.

EDIT: ioi brought up a good point too. Looks like he knows his stuff.

For once I agree with  roll. What is the world coming too!

then you both need to read more carefully.... I actually said japan SHOULD stay. 

 

He never suggested to change it ... I think he was implying that you'd prefer to see a UK slot next to Japan's to make you personally feel better when you compare regions.

Oh trust me, I've read it, and all I can see is a poor attempt to make 360 sales look better on paper. Your wish for the UK being it's own region will most certainly never happen, but I'm happy to see that the 360 is doing so well in the UK. Impressive indeed, and I honestly never knew it had such a lead over the PS3 there.