| kowenicki said: SDick of this size of room myth too. The average size of a house in Japan is almost identical to the average size of a house in the UK... Ameicans in particular look at Japanese houses and think wow, they are so small... they are looking at it wrong... it is US houses that are so big. All European and Far Eastern houses are small in comparison to the US/Canada/Australia.
Figures from the 2003 Housing and Land Survey conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications indicate that Japan had 53,890,900 housing units at the time. Of these, 46,862,900 (86.9%) were occupied and 7,027,900 (13.0%) unoccupied. Of the occupied units, 28,665,900 (61.2%) were owned by the resident household. The average number of rooms per unit of housing was 4.77, the average total floor area in was 94.85 square meters (28.69 tsubo; 1,021.0 sq ft)
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Average. Houses in the country or in small towns are bigger, less expensive and more often owned, while in big towns with high cost of living they are on average quite smaller (and more often rented, but this doesn't matter for what we're discussing). This applies to other countries too, but the huge average space available to Americans and Australians could contribute to decide where Kinect will succeed the most. Although I guess UK will give MS nice satisfactions anyway, despite the little space available.
