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Forums - Sales Discussion - The UK nearly as big as Japan? NOPE

daveJ on 07 January 2012

well you certainly have changed your tune from 3 months ago, :)

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=134293&page=

kowenicki said:
Japan's population is twice the size of the uk. People are generally talking pro-rata.

Population 100% bigger, revenue 50% bigger.

Uk market is huge for its size. Undeniable.


kowenicki said: on 17 September 2011

Saw this coming a couple of years ago...  

As far as home coinsoles are concerned the UK is now closing to be the second market.   

(Get your tin hat on Seece)



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Judgement-2012 on 07 January 2012

Uk looks so much like US,they prefer xbox360 over ps3 while europe clearly 's the strongest ps3 territory.



Turkish on 07 January 2012

Japan is twice as big as UK, just becoz the Japanese have moved to portable handhelds doesnt mean UK is much bigger. I dont get this "UK will be bigger in home consoles then Japan", who cares about home consoles? Just say gaming market, the Japanese have replaced home consoles with handhelds.



Seece on 07 January 2012

When Japan decided they like a handheld, they buy in DROVES.

Home consoles is where the comparison is valid (in terms of looking at hardware)



 

siphillis on 07 January 2012
kowenicki said:
Turkish said:
Japan is twice as big as UK, just becoz the Japanese have moved to portable handhelds doesnt mean UK is much bigger. I dont get this "UK will be bigger in home consoles then Japan", who cares about home consoles? Just say gaming market, the Japanese have replaced home consoles with handhelds.


No it's 50% bigger which if you actually read the article you'd know.  The population is twice the size.

So.

It is a fact that per capita the uk is much much bigger.

It is also a fact that taking into account prices the total Japan market is probably only 20% bigger.

It is also a fact that home consoles will be bigger.

Handhelds?. Japan is bigger, but to use your own argument against you, what about social gaming? phone gaming? PC gaming?.. We will never know the real numbers or details.

the thing you forget is that a lot of europeans import from the uk because you get a 30% discount on everything you buy there compared to our countries.




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VXIII on 07 January 2012
Seece said:
When Japan decided they like a handheld, they buy in DROVES.

Home consoles is where the comparison is valid (in terms of looking at hawrdware)


Seece , You don't believe in this nonsense, do you ?



Seece on 07 January 2012
VXIII said:
Seece said:
When Japan decided they like a handheld, they buy in DROVES.

Home consoles is where the comparison is valid (in terms of looking at hawrdware)


Seece , You don't believe in this nonsense, do you ?

What 'nonsense'?



 

VXIII on 07 January 2012
Seece said:
VXIII said:
Seece said:
When Japan decided they like a handheld, they buy in DROVES.

Home consoles is where the comparison is valid (in terms of looking at hawrdware)


Seece , You don't believe in this nonsense, do you ?

What 'nonsense'?

We shouldn't count handhelds because they are more popular in Japan, otherwise the comparison isn't valid .. ?



Seece on 07 January 2012
VXIII said:
Seece said:
VXIII said:
Seece said:
When Japan decided they like a handheld, they buy in DROVES.

Home consoles is where the comparison is valid (in terms of looking at hawrdware)


Seece , You don't believe in this nonsense, do you ?

What 'nonsense'?

We shouldn't count handhelds because they are more popular in Japan, otherwise the comparison isn't valid .. ?

Did I say we shouldn't count handhelds? I didn't say that all.



 

VXIII on 07 January 2012
Seece said:
VXIII said:
Seece said:
VXIII said:
Seece said:
When Japan decided they like a handheld, they buy in DROVES.

Home consoles is where the comparison is valid (in terms of looking at hawrdware)


Seece , You don't believe in this nonsense, do you ?

What 'nonsense'?

We shouldn't count handhelds because they are more popular in Japan, otherwise the comparison isn't valid .. ?

Did I say we shouldn't count handhelds? I didn't say that all.

Right , you didn't <_<