| JRPGfan said: Someone add up all the european countries on the list, and compair it to the american one? |
I just quickly added them up, only adding the billions and millions to speed the process up (it wouldn't make much different either way to include thousands).
If you were to add all of Europe together, it would place third on the list of top 5.
China: 27, 547, 039,000
US: 25, 059, 883, 000
Europe: 20, 323, 000, 000
Japan: 12, 545, 659, 000
South Korea: 4, 187, 711, 000
If you add Russia to Europe (which are frequently counted separately), it would be 21, 808, 000, 000.
A few observations from looking through the list
-Ireland is listed next to Iran's flag
-Outside of the big 5 in Europe (Germany, UK, France, Spain, and Italy), I'm surprised to see how many European countries trail countries in South America, the Caribbean, south east Asia, and even North Africa/Middle East
-While the US market, being one entity and far easier to flourish in than most regions (especially due to the high percentage of internet and smart phone users), will continue to be hugely important for the forseeable future, it looks like Asia will be far and away the biggest spenders on video games in the future, and Latin America is a rapidly emerging market as well. Europe needs to start making babies :p
