Quote:
Originally Posted by seorang
Comparing with Malaysia? Piracy drives the sales of anime there more than fansubs, simply because of the crappy quality of broadband and the comparative expensive price of anime (this is a country where the average starting graduate makes less than 400 USD a month) makes it much more attractive to buy bootlegs.
Clearly not markets with similar circumstances.
|
The comparison with other countries does not require that the country being compared with is
exactly similar; Because we are only comparing the sales of DVDs before and after the (hypothetical) change in the Singaporean fansub landscape. The use of other country's sales data would mostly be used only as a means of balancing out the effect of either up or down periods due to the mass release or absence of desirable new anime series.
Thus, let us say Haruhi Season 2, Code Geass Season One, and Darker than Black all gets released on legit DVDs in both Malaysia and Singapore simultaneously; This will cause a jump in Anime DVD sales due to influx of new products, but we can prevent this from masking the effects of fansub absence by coordinating the data with those of Malasyia's increased profit, as Malasyia's sales increase happened while fansubs are freely available in the area. The reverse will also be true, if for several months nothing better than Musashi Gundu was released and that caused a sales drop.