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Wiped on 28 November 2008

The UK is games mad, I live here and I know virtually no-one without a next-gen console. Just today I went into a little store in my neighbourhood and saw a 360 game and a PS3 sold in the space of about 30 seconds.

What on earth are the japanese games companies going to do if Japan no longer becomes very important? We're seeing a kind of shift in focus from the East to the West in gaming at the moment and I'm curious what Nintendo, Sony and in particular Japanese devs are going to do about it.



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Vanadium2k8 on 28 November 2008
Wiped said:
The UK is games mad, I live here and I know virtually no-one without a next-gen console. Just today I went into a little store in my neighbourhood and saw a 360 game and a PS3 sold in the space of about 30 seconds.

What on earth are the japanese games companies going to do if Japan no longer becomes very important? We're seeing a kind of shift in focus from the East to the West in gaming at the moment and I'm curious what Nintendo, Sony and in particular Japanese devs are going to do about it.

 

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X360: 35 million
PS3: 27 million

bobbo19 on 03 December 2008
kowenicki said:
wii, PS3 & 360 sales

UK 8.83m pop 60m

JP 10.37m pop 120m

US 33.05m pop 301m



us is vgchartz less 10%

 

 great point. per capita UK has largest market as 1/6 owns a next gen console in uk, whereas its  1/11 in Japan and

1/9 in the USA



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BKK2 on 06 December 2008

Despite the recession, the computer games industry is exhibiting particularly strong sales. UK console software sales for the third quarter were up 15% year-on-year, with a total of 13.2m units sold. Projections by GfK Chart-Track, a research company, suggest that the harsher climate will not have a significant impact.

'Best-ever quarter'

"The UK market in particular is gearing up for a best-ever fourth quarter overall. At the end of the year, 2008 should be 30% up on sales over 2007 with 75.5m units of console software sold," says Dorian Bloch of GfK Chart-Track.

And that is just console software sales. The total UK retail games software market for 2008 is forecast to gross £2.2bn.


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shams on 06 December 2008

Japan is becoming less and less relevant, in terms of being a consumer powerhouse on the world stage.



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BKK2 on 08 December 2008

Week 48:

UK: 3,487,443
JP: 1,965,325

Q4 2008:

UK: 19,368,474
JP: 10,465,396

YTD:

UK: 63.87m*
JP: 57.93m**

* Includes PC
** Does not include PC, Q1 = Media Create, WK 14 - WK 48 = Dengeki

Estimated YTD excluding PC*:

JP: 57.93m
UK: 55.91m

* UK WK 27 - WK 48 estimated from H1 2008 PC market share (12.46%).



BKK2 on 12 December 2008

Week 49:

UK: 3,602,790
JP: 1,352,574

Q4 2008:

UK: 22,971,264
JP: 11,817,974

YTD:

UK: 67.47m*
JP: 59.28m**

* Includes PC
** Does not include PC, Q1 = Media Create, WK 14 - WK 49 = Dengeki

Estimated YTD excluding PC*:

JP: 59.28m
UK: 59.06m

* UK WK 27 - WK 49 estimated from H1 2008 PC market share (12.46%).


UK has almost pulled level in estimated YTD software sales excluding PC, it should overtake Japan next week.



colonelstubbs on 12 December 2008

UK double Japan! Yeah baby



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Vanadium2k8 on 12 December 2008

Wow, 2008 has been terrible in Japan.



Bet - "PES 2009 (PS3) will sell (closer to) 150k first week in Japan" - Pooperscopper
"It will sell closer to 125k" - Me I agree. ME = OWNED :(

End of '09 Predictions:

Wii: 78 million
X360: 35 million
PS3: 27 million

BKK2 on 02 January 2009

Week 50:

UK: 4,248,904
JP: 1,754,292

Q4 2008:

UK: 27,220,168
JP: 13,572,266

YTD:

UK: 71.72m*
JP: 61.03m**

* Includes PC
** Does not include PC, Q1 = Media Create, WK 14 - WK 50 = Dengeki

Estimated YTD excluding PC*:

UK: 62.78m
JP: 61.03m

* UK WK 27 - WK 50 estimated from H1 2008 PC market share (12.46%).


UK ahead after week 50 in estimated YTD sales excluding PC, JP had a big increase for week 51, but UK should be even bigger. I don't think we'll get UK data until January 9th though.