The UK nearly as big as Japan? NOPE

[KillerMan]

kowenicki said:

Turkish said:
Japan is twice as big as UK, just becoz the Japanese have moved to portable handhelds doesnt mean UK is much bigger. I dont get this "UK will be bigger in home consoles then Japan", who cares about home consoles? Just say gaming market, the Japanese have replaced home consoles with handhelds.

No it's 50% bigger which if you actually read the article you'd know.  The population is twice the size.  

So.

It is a fact that per capita the uk is much much bigger.

It is also a fact that taking into account prices the total Japan market is probably only 20% bigger.

It is also a fact that home consoles will be bigger.

Handhelds?. Japan is bigger, but to use your own argument against you, what about social gaming? phone gaming? PC gaming?.. We will never know the real numbers or details.

Well if we compare HW sales yes UK is bigger per capita but not much. 3DS excluded we get these ratios with all current gen consoles.

UK 37.8 million consoles sold for population of 62.5 million = ~0.6 consoles per capita

Japan 71.44 million consoles sold for population of 128 million = ~0.56 consoles per capita

Regarding SW sales UK is of course a lot bigger per capita as it's little bigger even by raw units. Don't know why Japanese buy so few games though. Probably because of insane prices and enormous second hand market.