Japan sales (Week 47): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - November 20-26, 2017

[Alkibiádēs]

Train wreck said:

Alkibiádēs said:

UK is a tiny market compared to Japan. And Nintendo has historically always been weak in the UK while Playstation used to be a very strong brand in Japan (its freaking home country no less). If you can't tell the difference then I don't know what to tell you. 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=233227

I'm adding up console sales for Japan (213k) for the same week and its no where near 300k+.  Also doing some digging (which it seems you failed to do)

Japan gaming sales (total hardware and software) from Nintendo superfan Dr. Serkan Toto (https://www.serkantoto.com/2017/01/06/size-of-japans-console-gaming-market/)

2016: 2.59 Billion (hardware $1billion, software $1.59Billion)

2015 2.77 Billion

UK totals for last year (console hardware (no PC) +software (not including digital), no PC, no Mobile, no used game sales = $2.109 billion (https://ukie.org.uk/press-release/2017/03/uk-games-market-worth-record-%C2%A3433bn-2016), they seem pretty comparable to me.   

Why would you ignore mobile gaming?

Black Friday is big in the UK, but not in Japan, so that comparison makes no sense. There were huge discounts in the UK to drive sales, where were those discounts in Japan?