Nintendo and their localization efforts on the Wii.

[Kasz216]

TWRoO said:

The PS2 had over 5000 titles for Japan, the USA got 2500

(this probably includes special editions and such, but still a huge difference)

In some cases I agree with you, more games should release nearer together worldwide... though I disagree with your use of "1 year later" as I don't believe any of those games were actually 1 year later, most are a few months.

Edit... it's even more skewed than I thought:

	Japan	North America	Europe
PlayStation®	4,944	1,335	1,639
PlayStation®2	5,184	1,771	3,405
PlayStation®3	452	356	407
PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)(※3)	1,185	500	607

Something I was going to mention too... it's really peculiar when you consider that not only does the US sell more software... it sells more software per console... but that's how it's always been... ever since the freaking NES.

Probably because games are made mostly by the Japanese... and Western Developers seem to translate everything over to Japan even though games like Army of 2 aren't going to sell and nobody should expect them to.