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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 729589" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Some fair points Kervern, but the stats you offer on raw population statistics aren't actually a true reflection of the rugby market. In only one country in the North rugby is the national sport, and that's Wales, which has a population smaller than New Zealand at 3 million. England has 50 million, but over there the game is a distant second after soccer, meaning the actual size of the rugby market is really limited to a portion of the middle to upper classes. In France I'm sure you'd be able to give us better stats, but from my understanding the popularity of rugby is more limited to the South and in Italy the game is very much an after thought.</p><p></p><p>Even in countries like South Africa, which also has about 53 million people the middle class is only about 10 million and not al of them are engaged with rugby. </p><p></p><p>Superficially it looks like we should have a big rugby market on the basis of the size of the countries that are strong in the sport, but the fact that rugby games haven't generated significant revenues to justify larger future investment is a reflection of both the nature of our market (being not necessarily as interested in simulation games) and its real size.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 729589, member: 12207"] Some fair points Kervern, but the stats you offer on raw population statistics aren't actually a true reflection of the rugby market. In only one country in the North rugby is the national sport, and that's Wales, which has a population smaller than New Zealand at 3 million. England has 50 million, but over there the game is a distant second after soccer, meaning the actual size of the rugby market is really limited to a portion of the middle to upper classes. In France I'm sure you'd be able to give us better stats, but from my understanding the popularity of rugby is more limited to the South and in Italy the game is very much an after thought. Even in countries like South Africa, which also has about 53 million people the middle class is only about 10 million and not al of them are engaged with rugby. Superficially it looks like we should have a big rugby market on the basis of the size of the countries that are strong in the sport, but the fact that rugby games haven't generated significant revenues to justify larger future investment is a reflection of both the nature of our market (being not necessarily as interested in simulation games) and its real size. [/QUOTE]
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