DirtyP2002 said:
ithis said:
DirtyP2002 said:
when it comes to entertainment Europe always follow the US.
Look at the decrease of Japanese content and the increase of American Content.
Look at the PS1
Top10 selling games: 4 Japanese franchises, 2 Western franchises
PS2
Top10 selling games: 3 Japanese franchises, 3 Western franchises
PS3
Top10 selling games: 2 Japanese franchises, 5 Western franchises
One of the reasons is that the European culture is more like the American and less like the Asian culture.
That is what makes NA so important. It is not just because it sells the most hard- and software, it is because it actually influences and indicates the European market as well. There is no game that is really big in the US and totally ignored in Europe - except the sports games Madden / Fifa etc.
A huge hit in NA always means a hit in Europe as well.
But a hit in Japan is not always a hit in Europe (Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest).
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You can write that the other way around, the US follows Europe, but sells more and it still sounds correct. Doesn't prove much.
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Look at the biggest franchises this generation - most of them are American.
- Halo
- CoD
- Assassin's Creed
- GTA
- Skyrim
- Gears of War
- Uncharted
- Left 4 Dead / Portal / TF
- Mass Effect
- BioShock
- God of War
Or look at movies. No way Europe can keep up with NA in entertainment. It is just a fact.
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True, big francises com from america and japan. Today, there are more that come from america than japan, in the past it was the other way around. This has nothing to do with america setting the consumption trend, it has to do with game quality (the japanese game developers agree). It still does not prove that EU follows america, just that the big franchises are made there. Yess, we tend to like the same stuff, not suprising since they were us once.
The link with the hardware business is whishfull thinking. As it was already presented, at the start of the generation the EU seamed to favore the Xbox and the US too. Now, the EU strongly favors the PS3 while the us still favors the Xbox.
Log story short, we can't say much about next gen sales.
