Europe: this is a region that no one really talks about, which is a shame considering how sales have been doing since December. Lately we've heard about the Wii selling over a million units in the UK alone, which is no small feat. We also have to remember that Europe had the Wii debute at thse same time as in the US, but doesn't have the same income of new games as america. After a good start in 2006 the Wii continued to sell well despite the lack of solid new games. Eventually the Wii stumped at 50-55k a week. Yet lately, since mid June sales seem to have picked up coinciding with the Japan hardware drought. And so since the beginning of July, when new games were introduced to the market sales have entered the 95-100k per week zone and thus far have stayed that way. Yet because a lot of games have yet to reach the old continent, it wouldn't be dumb to suggest an increase in sales within the next 2 months. Such an flow of games by this years end also point to a great christmas here for the big N.
It's worth pointing out the strange coincidence that despite poor Wii sales in Japan right now and normal US sales, overall hardware sales for the Wii remain at a very defined level of 230-270 per week since it's debut. Thanks go to Europe which makes up for the far east sales. Thing is, if Japan goes back to "normal" with new games on the hotizon, i'm willing to change that weekly sales figure to 300k per week. Now that's over a million units per month, that will have Sony and Microsft run for their money. Again.
Deep into the darkness pearing
Long i stood there
Wondering
Fearing
Doubting.
