Did Nintendo save gaming with the NES?

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Doctor_MG said:

invetedlotus123 said:

I don't agree with your statement that NA is THE most important market for gaming, at least not nowadays. Europe is where Sony sells the most units and Japan sure is a shadow of its former self but many franchises still reach huge numbers over there.

For games in a broader sense, considering mobile, PC and MMOs (that I believe should be a category of its own even if they are predominant on pc) China takes the crown nowadays. 

Sony is the only console manufacturer that sells more in Europe than in North America. Here is the data taken from this website for the last few consoles:

Platform         North America         Europe

Xbox One             31.22                 12.03

Playstation 4        36.86                 46.44

Switch                 22.32                 15.23

Wii U                   6.23                    3.24

PS3                    29.42                  34.99

360                    49.11                  25.87

Wii                     45.51                  33.88

We can get into PC and mobile markets if you'd like. Both of those are incredibly hard to quantify though. You can't really look into units sold. Do you look at revenue? I suppose you can with PC, but mobile has a starkly different way to get revenue than consoles do. I prefer to do like for like comparisons regarding consoles, personally. 

Numbers without context meaning almost nothing. Sony, and have today, more countries penetration. In Nes Era, All de computers, in EUR market is niche when you comparte to the US market, at the same time. The European market expansion becomes major only when having someone with the distribution installed in the EUR countries. Sony has all distribution channels already, only supplied with videogames. Famiclones, in Russia and East countries, is bigger before Sony arrived there too.