Something has been bothering me about the Other Region - Other numbers.
The Other Other numbers are terribly small, about equal to Australia, so I started to do some research. I found 4 of the wealthier markets in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea) and compared them to a market of comparable size and wealth in Europe - Germany. The numbers for Other - Other are less than half of Germany's and yet should represent the rest of the worlds sales as well as these four markets.
Is the video game market in the Asian markets really this undeveloped?
Or are they all just playing Starcraft?
| Country | Population | Date | GDP (PPP) | Date | GDP Per Capita |
| Hong Kong | 6,980,412 | July 2007 est. | $ 258,800,000,000 | 2006 est. | $ 37,075.18 |
| Singapore | 4,553,009 | July 2007 est. | $ 141,200,000,000 | 2006 est. | $ 31,012.46 |
| Taiwan | 22,858,872 | July 2007 est. | $ 680,500,000,000 | 2006 est. | $ 29,769.62 |
| Korea, South | 49,044,790 | July 2007 est. | $ 1,196,000,000,000 | 2006 est. | $ 24,385.87 |
| Total | 83,437,083 | $ 2,276,500,000,000 | $ 27,284.03 | ||
| Germany | 82,400,996 | July 2007 est. | $ 2,630,000,000,000 | 2006 est. | $ 31,917.09 |
Figures from CIA World Factbook.
| Other - Other | Germany | |||
| Console | Weekly | Total | Weekly | Total |
| DS | 5,307 | 569,286 | 17,019 | 2,026,436 |
| PSP | 2,909 | 286,297 | 5,499 | 725,176 |
| PS3 | 2,004 | 68,121 | 2,122 | 92,279 |
| Wii | 1,639 | 68,624 | 6,994 | 278,802 |
| X360 | 1,471 | 153,250 | 1,840 | 288,168 |
| Total | 13,330 | 1,145,578 | 33,474 | 3,410,861 |
Figures from Other Regions section.
EDIT: Maybe MS should give Blizzard an incentive to finish Starcraft: Ghost to capture market share in Korea :P
