SALES HARDWARE GERMANY : wii outsold 360

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RolStoppable said:

albionus said:

Well I don't think those numbers are particularly good fo anyone. Germany is a bigger country than the UK yet only about 1/3 as many consoles have been sold. I know it's already been said why that is. That just means all three console makers need to stop and think a little hard about how to break into Europe's biggest market.

Of course maybe they've decided that Germany isn't worth the effort despite the opportunity (seems an odd decision to me given how big of a market it could be) in which case good for Nintendo to at least have the biggest piece of a small pie.

There was a time when Germany was the most important market for consoles in europe right after the UK. France passed Germany many years ago and it doesn't help that 4+m people in Germany are out of work.

I think Nintendo is gaining a lot in Germany lately. The DS already passed the 2m mark after a little over 2 years (GBA LTD is 3.4m I think) and the Wii is selling well for this time of the year. Of course it's a given that the Wii will definitely pass the GC LTD of 1m, but in my opinion it has also a shot at beating the PS2 numbers long term.

Hasn't Germany always bean a big PC market? I have some old memory that Amiga and Atari should have been huge in Germany.