koffieboon said:
I don't know where you got your geography lessons, but the UK is not that much bigger than Italy population wise. I understand Europe is just one big pile of small countries for people from the US, but Italy and the UK both have a population close to 60 million people. Those Wii numbers don't make sense to me. They would put Wii december launch numbers at something like 30-35k, which seem way too low considering Nintendo sold around 700k Wiis in Europe in december. Anyway, the guy doesn't seem to have any public source for these numbers, so we can't verify them. |
Not only is Britain's population similar to Italy's (61m to 58m) Stickball, but expendable income in the UK isn't that much higher than in Italy. The base income is essentially the same (32k vs 30k) but of course taxes and forex variations could make the difference greater but I can't imagine it would do so in a significant way. My guess would be other reasons such as fewer kids in Italy, lack of games in Italian, shorter history of gaming, major difference between north and south, etc. are having a bigger impact than the small differences in population and income.
