Erik Aston on 18 March 2007
kars said:
well, Sorry to burst your bubble, but "sales figures" are more or less secret in Europe, at least in Germany, these are mainly guesses based on the sales numbers of certain stores, Even for countries itself these numbers are in general unreliable and if you try to add them up to get something , that would be pretty unreliable.
And to be frankly France does not really bother how certain titles sale in Germany or Italy and vice versa.
So companies normally don't compare their sales with the sales of other companies (they could claim different numbers) but instead tell you how satisfied they were with the sales.
There's okay numbers for the UK, and there will be widely reported European totals for PS3 for the launch week. They'll also be plenty of press releases toting sales accompanying the quarterly sales reports.
There doesn't have to be really good European data for Nintendo to try and create some headlines.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
