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"Hey! What's your name
then?" "Mancomb Seepgood." (04-12-2008,
09:02 PM)
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Video game market 2007 (values)
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Hy, I´ve merged all data I´ve found with 2007 annual market values for every [a lot of ^^] country, to have a nice comparison. :)
2007 total market value: Code:
currency rate I´ve used: 1 Euro = 1.5811 U.S. dollars 1 U.S. dollars = 100.94892 Japanese yen 1 Swiss franc = 1.001101 U.S. dollars If you have more data, post it here, to complete this chart, e.g. Austria, Denmark, canadian December figures, etc. :) Last edited by Captain Smoker : 04-13-2008 at 08:22 AM. |
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(04-12-2008,
09:35 PM)
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#18
Go Sweden!
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(04-12-2008,
09:39 PM)
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#20
We really love gaming in the UK.
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"Hey! What's your name
then?" "Mancomb Seepgood." (04-12-2008,
09:41 PM)
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#22
Originally Posted by Psychotext:
I´ll add this to the OP. :) |
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(04-12-2008,
09:43 PM)
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#24
Originally Posted by Psychotext:
bububu europe is a small market |
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(04-12-2008,
09:47 PM)
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#27
That sure is a lot of money.
Populations from Wikipedia: USA: 303,833,000 Japan: 127,790,000 United Kingdom: 60,587,300 France: 64,473,140 Germany: 82,210,000 Spain: 45,200,737 Italy: 59,337,888 Australia: 21,263,170 Canada: 33,233,700 Netherlands: 16,421,126 Sweden: 9 187 630 Belgium: 10,584,534 Switzerland: 7,603,500 Portugal: 10,623,000 Finland: 5,307,220 Edit: Beaten and beaten badly. Nevermind |
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(04-12-2008,
10:42 PM)
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#34
Originally Posted by monkeylite:
"Hey, our idiotic marketing and localization strategies mean we only sell half as much, but they buy everything at twice the price anyway!" |
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(04-12-2008,
11:04 PM)
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#35
Europe (and especially the U.K.) are big markets, no doubt. However, don't games/systems cost a whole lot more in Europe compared to their U.S. releases? That would seem to skew a $ comparison towards Europe, I would think. :P
Nice work, Captain Smoker! :) |
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(04-12-2008,
11:13 PM)
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#36
Its not hard to see why the UK is such a market, last year i bought a ps3 that came with 2 games and purchased another 6 for it.
thats £400+(6x40) that's £640 (~$1300), that's excluding several PC games. This year so far has seen the purchase of a PSP and a batch of games for another few hundred pound with another £150 on pre-order for this year, would be nigh on £200 but amazon doesn't have resistance 2 listed yet. |
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(04-12-2008,
11:33 PM)
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#37
Originally Posted by donny2112:
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Perfectly able to grasp the inherent value of the fishing game.
(04-12-2008,
11:47 PM)
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#39
Japan $53,44 127.790.000 6.828.463.769 $
United Kingdom $106,47 60.587.300 6.450.888.000 $ See this Nintendo? Yes, the UK market by value is nearly as big as Japan (And its still getting bigger), even though we have less than half the population, stop treating us like shit already! *goes off to growl in the corner* |
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They need to do a stupid on that shit.
(04-12-2008,
11:59 PM)
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#41
Originally Posted by Markster:
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(04-13-2008,
12:41 AM)
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#43
Originally Posted by Sharp:
Units. When a game costs ~twice as much in the U.K. as in the U.S., it tends to make the market look larger when comparing by $. ;) And with the VAT, you can't say that all of that 2x cost is going to the publisher. In short, a comparison of total $ between regions with vastly different cost structures requires a bit more than saying "A $ ~= B $, so market A ~= market B." :P |
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(04-13-2008,
01:04 AM)
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#45
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. Good numbers, though. Thanks for that. |
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Banned
(04-13-2008,
01:41 AM)
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#47
You can't really use these numbers as they are. Revenue is an interesting number, but mostly useful for accountants and marketers.
There are 2 main factors that must be considered and are not being analyzed here. Cost and Exchange Rates. It's a known fact that Euro releases are costlier (even though we don't know the exact numbers, and never will, it's self-evident that European games cost more to localize and distribute, with higher taxes). The weak dollar furthers this distortion. One way of getting a clearer picture is to adjust the numbers to PPP (purchasing power parity) values. PPP shows us the true buying power of a countries currency, instead of the market exchange rate, which can be controlled artificially or affected by freak occurrences. Here is the same data adjusted for PPP: Code:
How did I reach those numbers? I just converted the totals back to the original currency, using the table Captain Smoked posted, converted it again to the correct currency, using my sourced table, and then applied the PPP $ value. Those PPP numbers are from 2005, from the World Bank ICP report, the most recent ones I could find. That doesn't make them outdated though, because buying power changes much slower than FOREX rates. Last edited by ith3r : 04-13-2008 at 01:48 AM. |
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psycho_snake's and The Black Brad Pitt's B*TCH
(04-13-2008,
01:51 AM)
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#48
Originally Posted by Captain Smoker:
From Gamespot:
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If I'm not mistaken PC game sales were $910m in 2007. Edit: yes, I found it:
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"Hey! What's your name
then?" "Mancomb Seepgood." (04-13-2008,
08:22 AM)
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#49
Originally Posted by starship:
I´ve updated the OP. The Avg. Spend increases to $62,04 from $59,05. Also: I´ve found the lacking number for Canada, 2007 the revenue was 1.500.000.000 $, the avg Spend increases to $45,14 from $33,40. So, Canada is bigger than Australia, but I don´t know if the PC is included: http://evergeek.thestar.com/News/2914.aspx |
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(04-13-2008,
09:04 AM)
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#50
Interesting.
It seems to me that Japan is really big compared to other regions if you think about it. Most of all sales in Japan came from the DS and Wii and some handfull of bigger titles on different platforms right? Whereas in America all platforms except PSP are represented fully with shitloads of software and in the UK also except for PS2, and they are paying far more than the people in Japan do for software and hardware. And, like someone above also said, almost all sales in Japan come from Japanese publishers, whereas in the rest of the world sales come from all publishers. UK is also a bigger market than I thought it was, more than 30% of total european revenue based on these numbers and a lot bigger than it's two nearest competitors in Europe. |