theprof00 on 26 December 2009
| STEKSTAV said: Id say no one cares about UK sales, while Japan has exclusives for that region, they release their own numbers for people who are interested in what they show etc. UK isn't of any interest. UK is Europe.. no one sits and go "i can't wait to see how this and that game does in the UK". But articles, forums and news sites post massive amount of content on how games and consoles does in Japan. UK is boring. |
This is a great point.
There are many Japan-exclusive games out there which are internally targeted. They don't see release in any other country unless they become popular enough in Japan. The rest of the world barely sees 10% of Japanese games....
So, Japan only sales is a very important number, both to give evidence for possible exports, and to understand why some Japanese games sell, and some don't.
If a game is released in the UK, it will pretty much be released everywhere else, so it doesn't really make sense to track UK only sales, since they aren't really that vital for a game to be successful, unlike NA and Japan.
