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[Neo C.]

Switzerland sure could spend a bit more.
Our gaming culture doesn't seem high.

So unless my quick arithmetic is wrong, I'm getting a European total of:

$20,862,188,100.
(does not count Australia/PAL)

So, all of Europe combined is barely larger than the US? It's a lot of work to do all of that separate localization....

Also, remember that from a Japanese publisher's point of view, the European and North American markets will be split heavily with Western publishers/developers. That Japanese number is almost exclusively Japanese published business. Just a thought.

And don't forget you have to translate the stuff in 2 to 5 languages in Europe, convert it to PAL, and often ship the games in different covers (in different languages). Business in Europe isn't easy.

 

[Slavik81]

I guess I should be thankful the United States speaks English... Otherwise, we Canadians would probably be screwed as badly as Europe... >.<

 

[Tyrannical]

Flaws or not, what this can tell you is the relative market size between European countries. I added what percent of the European market each country represents based on the OT data.

United Kingdom $106,47 60.6 6450M $ 31%
France $60,87 64.4M 3924M $ 19%
Germany $47,27 82.2M 3886M $ 19%
Spain $50,86 45.2M 2299M $ 11%
Italy $27,66 59.3M 1640M $ 8%
Netherlands $48,82 16.4M 801M $ 4%
Sweden $59,37 9.2M 545M $ 3%
Belgium $48,10 10.6M 509M$ 2%
Switzerland $55,30 7.6M 420M $ 2%
Portugal $24,11 10.6M 256M $ 1%
Finland $24,07 5.3M 127M $ 1%

total/avg $48 371M 20857M %

 

[monkeylite]

@monkeylite

that`s why they treat europe like shit.... they`ll buy the games anyway....

Well I import 50% of my games now, probably more once I get a PS3...

Somebody should do a chart.

 

[gconsole]

If it's already include PC then we shouldn't miss China and Korea. I would like to see how big the market is in those country.

 

[AdventureRacing]

Australia in second? That's surprising considering every thread about game sales in Australia always gets the same "Australia doesn't buy many games" BS. Now i can just link this thread for those trolls.

 

[dionysus]

The UK is as big as Japan, that is surprising to me.

The more you know.