Why US=World argument might actually be legitimate

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This thread made me finally post instead of running silent..

You have to be pretty ignorant to open a thread with that position without really looking into some details, national preferences for example.
Let's take a look to europes single biggest market, actually germany. We prefer PC over consoles as for marketshare. Even in our nice little broadband internet development country. Sidenote that means pretty much digital sales vgc and other trackers don't get their noses on. That is actually just one of many minor points.
Then we have four big european economies, wich pay about half as much for gaming as the US. Missing out all the other smaller economies like BeNeLux, Austria etc. and actually a major one like Spain.

Then there's the entertainment stuff. That actually is a little difficult over here. Because there's a ton of national territories those distribution rights are sold to seperately. Still, we do have amazon instant video, now netflix and so on as well as nationwide streamingservices.
I mean it's not like you don't get spotify.
And yes, it works. Even over here, our good, old german Videothek (swounds much better than video rental store actuelly) is dying out. So yes, we pay for all that stuff and more important, this streamingmarket will definitely grow.

So, other markets are different. Especially the european as a whole with tons of national preferences. That doesn't make them less important. As for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, yes, the US is extremely important for MS, just because without good US sales, they would be dead in the water.

Good thing is, it's not only Americans that can be ignorant, one can find that pretty much everywhere.

Sorry for my english, i'm a bit out of training.