Falcon095 said:
Well according to Wikipedia, at 1999 the World's population was almost 6 billions now let's take the main gaming Regions: Asia: 3.634 billions Europe: 729 millions Latin America and the Caribbean: 511 millions Northern America: 307 millions If we put the numbers together are: 5.181 billion But we know that most of probably most of those people can't have the luxury to own a conosole so let's subtract 9/10 from that, now the numbers are: 518 millions And we know that not even the half of that will be interested on a gaming system so let's subtrack 1/2 from those numbers, now we have something like 250 millions Now let's subtrack the Wii's that have been sold which are 36 millions, and 3/4 of the HD's that have been sold which are 30 millions, so the numbers are 184 millions Let's subtract 15 million (possible Wii's numbers of this christmas) and the final numbers are 169 millions. There could be around 170 millions after this christmas! This "study" obviously don't show the real numbers (mainly because i underestimated many things) but you get the point. |
With emerging middleclass primarily in India and China, the worlds most populus countries, they have pushed up the price of meat, oil, minerals, etc. 9/10 is an overstatement i think.
BTW lol, but your correct, Nintendo know that all these un tapped markets are gonna run at the Wii big time.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
