SALES HARDWARE GERMANY : wii outsold 360

[Just_Ben]

Louie said:

BrainBoxLtd said:

johnlucas said:

Is the 360 REALLY selling this badly in Germany. God!

It's been out over there since Dec. 2, 2005 for God's sake!

Almost 2 years and Wii beats 'em in 9 months!

Microsoft has some work to do over in the European region that's for SURE. Maybe they take those blue screen Windows crashes more seriously than we thought, huh? Elephant memory I guess.

John Lucas

It is no surprise ot me that the 360 bombs in Germany. Most of it's most popular games are rated M, and Germany have the harshest rules for software content. Gears of War went through about 8 re-edits for the German Version, and all were turned down in the rating process, so it never released over there, and that's the best selling game.

Uhm, we are harsh yes, but not that harsh. Gears of War was the one single game which wasn´t rated by USK and unfortunately didn´t make it to the german market.

But the whole thing is not that serious, believe me. As far as I´m concerned all other 360 games made it to Germany. It is just not selling all too well. It is even priced at 299 Euros in some stores (329 Euros together with (take a deap breath!) two games, two controllers and 3 months of XBox Live Gold - and we are talking about the Premium version here!), which is cheaper than the new US price...

The next thing is, that Germans 18+ knows about these issues and know how to get to the games. Either let them import for you on special site, or just go to austria.  ;)

Last time i was on such a "import" shopsite, the most imported game was godfather for the Wii, by the way.