The Japanese must really love video games!

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Pristine20 on 19 June 2008

Japan is only one country with a population over 120 mil, a small group of islands, yet it has video game sales on par with the whole of North America and the whole of Europe. I say that is pretty damn amazing! It must be the true bastion of gamers! Discuss...

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Munkeh111 on 19 June 2008

It is not on par, but it is disproportionately big

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Pristine20 on 19 June 2008

Munkeh111 said:
It is not on par, but it is disproportionately big

You're right. Its not exactly on par but it definitely more than holds its own!

"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

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Oyvoyvoyv on 19 June 2008

It isn't that much bigger than UK pr capita.

Japan:

Population: 127 million

Total hardware this gen (handhelds + consoles) : 41.6M

So roughly 1/3 "people" have a console. Excact would 32.7% be That's huge.

United Kingdom:

Population: 60.5M

Total hardware this gen (handhelds + consoles) : 15.8M

So roughly 1/4 "people" have a console. Excact would be 26.4% That's big.

For software, I believe UK is bigger, but I have no stats for that.

Also remember that Europe has a lot of PC countries. America also has lots of PC gamers, which aren't tracked here.

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Hawkeye on 19 June 2008

Yes, Japan is quite huge, though their video game influence has been on the wane these past couple of years...

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MANUELF on 19 June 2008

Oyvoyvoyv said:

It isn't that much bigger than UK pr capita.

Japan:

Population: 127 million

Total hardware this gen (handhelds + consoles) : 41.6M

So roughly 1/3 "people" have a console. Excact would 32.7% be That's huge.

United Kingdom:

Population: 60.5M

Total hardware this gen (handhelds + consoles) : 15.8M

So roughly 1/4 "people" have a console. Excact would be 26.4% That's big.

For software, I believe UK is bigger, but I have no stats for that.

Also remember that Europe has a lot of PC countries. America also has lots of PC gamers, which aren't tracked here.

WRONG!!! What games in the history of UK has sold +2 millions? Nothing

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pichu_pichu on 19 June 2008

especially DS sales in Japan
1/7 people has one in Japan

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konnichiwa on 19 June 2008

Yeah Japanese games/Hardware sells very well in Japan don't ask me why...

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NiKKoM on 19 June 2008

It's about culture... In Japan everything is based on succes in life & work.. That's causing a lot of pressure.. That's why they like to escape the real world & like to play in the virtual world of videogames.. it's called "Escapism"