North America is becomming a bigger market, Europe a smaller, Japan's equal

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A lot of people here have lately said that Europe is starting to be more important than NA hardware wise. I will also sum up what has happened between the three main territories. There will be rests from other than the 3 world markets, that is why  % won't add up.

Okay. First, last generation.

Playstation 2:

Total sales in Europe: 46,5 M (http://vgchartz.com/eweekly.php)  = 38,75 %
Total sales in Japan: 22,3M (http://vgchartz.com/japweekly.php)  = 18,58 %
Total sales in North America: 47M (http://vgchartz.com/aweekly.php) = 39,16 %

Gamecube:

Total sales in Europe: 4,75M (http://vgchartz.com/eweekly.php?date=39110&boxartz=1) = 22.1 %
Total sales in Japan: 4.0 (http://vgchartz.com/japweekly.php? date=39264&console=&maker=&disp=American+Name&boxartz=1)  =  18,6%
Total sales in North America: 12.74M (http://vgchartz.com/aweekly.php) = 59,2 %

Xbox:
Total sales in Europe: 7.76M (http://vgchartz.com/eweekly.php?date=39110&boxartz=1)= 32 %
Total sales in Japn: 0.5M (http://vgchartz.com/japweekly.php?  date=38536&console=&maker=&disp=American+Name&boxartz=1) = 2 %
Total sales in North America: 15.9M (http://vgchartz.com/aweekly.php?date=39236&console=&maker=&boxartz=1) =  65,7 %


Total sales last generation:

Europe: 59.01M  =  36.6 %
Japan: 26.8M  = 16.7 %
North America: 75.64M = 46,9 %

Current generation:

Playstation 3:
Total sales in Europe: 4M = 42 %
Total sales in Japan: 1.8M = 18,9 %
Total sales in North America: 3.7M = 39 %

Nintendo Wii:
Total sales in Europe: 6.5M = 32,3 %
Total sales in Japan: 5M = 24,8 %
Total sales in North America: 8.65M  = 42,9 %

Xbox 360:
Total sales in Europe: 5.4M = 32,7 %
Total sales in Japan: 0.56M = 3,39 %
Total sales in North America: 10.6M = 64.2 %

Total sales this generation:

Europe: 15,9M = 34,2 %
Japan: 7.6M = 16.3 %
North America: 23M = 49,5 %

So to sum it up:
Europe has become 2.4 % points smaller
Japan has decreased by 0.4 % points.
North America has increased by 2.6 %

0.2 % have been rounded up or down and are therfefore, magically, gone!