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Swordmasterman on 18 October 2016
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Mr Puggsly said:
Swordmasterman said:

Sorry, but the European countries doesn't have the same tastes than the USA. A Racing game could be considered a flop in the USA but a success in Europe, the same is true for other games that sell well on Europe but don't in the USA.

I'm saying that the Xbox One, despite having some fanbase of Metal Gear, was outsold by the PC version that never saw a Metal Gear game before.

Japan's biggest games didn't launched yet. UK receives Fifa every year(one of th biggest games of those countries) and Call of Duty. Outside from what they sell, the best selling game did 500-650k. You are saying that a country who did  500-650k ,with their biggest game, outside their biggest titles, is more relevant the the one who did 450k+ without one of their biggest titles.

This makes the things even more even. The best selling game for the UK, for the Xbox One, without being Fifa or Cod, is Fallout 4 which did 500k.

So, if someone sells 450k,its irrelevant. But 500k, is relevant. Did you know that Halo 5 sold under the number of Knack(Japan) in the UK? One of the only markets that purchase Halo, we only have numbers of the beggining of 2016.

For Japan, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy will easily surpass 1 million or more on the PS4. Even games that don't are the focus of Japan, sells 250-300K, UK's 3 biggest launch for the Xbox One(Behind Fifa and Cod) sold 500k. Tomb Raider, an UK's success, sold under 62k at launch

Does NA and European have the exact same taste? Ofcourse not, some genres sell better between them. For the most part though, they buy similar games.

It doesn't matter if MGSV sold better on PC, that doesn't determine whether or not Xbox One is supported in the future. A lot of PC gamers probably played MGS on Playstation consoles but bought MGSV on PC.

While the Japanese market waits for games they care about, UK is already buying games in bigger numbers and will continue to do so. This is why the UK is a more signfiicant market to Sony and MS.

You're cherry picking sales. I'm simply pointing out UK buys more console games than Japan in spite of being a smaller market. The home console market is Sony's and MS's focus.

Even when games like FFXV and DQ11 finally hit the market, the UK will buy more home console software than Japan.

The biggest games of the UK already launched, while the biggest Japanese games will still launch. One sold 430-450 thousands in 1 year as a best sellet, the other sold 500 thousands in 1 year (outside of the 2 biggest franchises of the UK) as the best seller. How is one  relevant and the other isn't ?