Exactly what I wanted to say . EU PC game sales are probably much higher than US sales. Also , because there are so many smaller countrys in the US often games are undertracked ....

PC games sales add on a lot, and there should be extra software sales cause less items are tracked. However, Eastern Europe will develop more and a games market will form there, but Europe will only be the major power for a short time, before china and india take over

It eventually probably will happen but it wont be for quite a while.

it will happen, hopefully soon then videogame companies will stop treating europe as second class.

I think they will be quite close by the end of this generation, I mean looking at last gen it was 76:57 in favour of North America... or 80:59 if including the Dreamcast.

previously it was 63:48 (PS1+N64+Saturn) but the American market was growing really fast then, I think American growth will be slowed down this gen purely by population, 76 million out of 350 million is more than 1/5 which is similar to Japan. I think the Wii may be the main reason there will still be growth this generation in America... so perhaps a total of around 90 million.

Europe still has a lot of space for growth, and may end up close to the American total for home consoles (75-85 million)
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On the handheld front I'm not really sure, it seems GB did as well in Europe as in America, yet the GBA did no where near as well, I think that is partly because the DS didn't kill the GBA off so quickly in America, but also because people in Europe were happy with GB or GBC, which may have also been bought more seperately in Europe than elsewhere (eg in Japan most of the people who bought GBC probably had a GB before it, whereas in Europe I think this will be less so)

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When gaming becomes commonplace worldwide, which it will eventually (whether the system is similar to now though I don't know) then of course Asian markets outside Japan will become much bigger than anything else, afterall 1 in every 3 people is either Indian or Chinese. (Of course it will take a long time for these markets to grow... probably 3 or 4 generations just to match Japan, although by that time the growth will be incredible so the generation after it might be challenging Europe)

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In 15 years ASIA will be a huge market, maybe like EU is now

while then EU will be even bigger..

NA I see only going down

As far as videogames are concerned, no dice. Piracy is waaay too embedded in many countries.

Maybe.

In 5-10 years, Eastern Europe will be a huge market by itself, rivaling Western Europe. Countries like Poland, Latvia, Ukraine and the Slovakia represent the fastest growing economies in Europe and rival the growth of even China!
So; yes the European market will be bigger than the NA market in a few years by logical deduction (or my deduction anyways... ).