invetedlotus123 said:
But Western Europe, Japan and North America are the bigger drivers of the market, the console market anyway. Just compare the numbers here in VgChartz with the Rest of the World Region compared to the others. VGchartz isn`t very reliable, but it`s the source of info we have. |
Western Europe is a different talk, it isn't just a country, but a Region. I'm saying that the Gaming market, any of the 3 (console, phone, pc), is much bigger than any other country, it can survive even without 1 of the biggest countries for gaming.
I think that China have over 23 Billions of gaming revenue, USA 21-22 Billions, Japan 12-14 Billions = 56-59 Billions of US$. After that we have Korea, Germany, UK (in that order) each with over 4 Billions in revenue = 12 = 68-71 Billions + France with over 3 Billions = 71-74 Billions from those major markets, beyong france there are countries with less than 2 Billions in revenue.
So, out-side the major countries for gaming (not region) there is still over 20-23 Billions of US$ in revenue. The worldwide market isn't so small, Vgchartz can't track it because those countries don't have any kind of research on gaming. Only the companies who sell the consoles, games, can tell how much they sold.
I'm sure that Brazil have a good ammount of consoles sold, but they never released any number, the only thing that we got is that, in 2014, Sega's Master System was selling on par with the PS4 (which was 2200US$ against a 50US$ Master System), Master System sold 200K units in that year. In the same year, PS3 and Xbox360 were the best selling consoles, people here purchase more Last Gen than Next Gen consoles, because they released Last gen consoles at retail in 2012-2013 at a good price, while the other consoles are very expensive and they don't track imported units.
