Nintendo relation with the West is not as bad as Microsoft with Japan

[Zod95]

the_dengle said:

Is Japan "irrelevant"?

7th-Gen Console Sales:

As a market, Japan is less relevant than either America or Europe, or the sum of other territories displayed as "Rest of World" on VGChartz.

"Oh, but Japan is more interested in handhelds, that's where they're truly relevant."

7th-Gen Handheld Console Sales:

Still a smaller cut of the pie than America or Europe. Not irrelevant, but certainly less relevant.

If you look at the title of this discussion, you will realize we are talking about the relevance the Japanese market could have to Microsoft. So:

1 - Once Microsoft is not in the handheld business, I don't think your 2nd graphic is relevant at all.

2 - Once Microsoft doesn't make profit on hardware but on software, I believe your 1st graphic is not the best way to show the relevance of each market. If you do it based on software sales, Japan would have a relevance of 6,45% instead of 9%.

3 - Once Microsoft is a Western company and the Japanese almost don't buy Western products, I suggest for you to see the % in average of the Japanese sales regarding a Western game (I speculate that pretty much shows what X360 could have got in Japan). Then instead of 6,45% it would be less than 4%.

 

So, in my opinion, 4% is the relevance of the Japanese market regarding what we are discussing here. And I would call it NOT RELEVANT.