Ok so I must ask, WTF is up with Others ?

[jarrod]

averyblund said:

jarrod said:
Rising Star's talked about European retailers reluctance to carry "core" oriented Wii games for years now. I think it's become problem on that end, people won't buy what they can't buy.

I have heard that, and am curious if this is a pan-european phenomena or just in certain areas? If it is a widespread problem it would certainly be a big contributor. Though it does bring in the  "chicken-or-the-egg" question of why those retailers would choose to not stock titles that might sell better. Clearly casual titles are not suffering in distribution.

I think there's issues of scale there though... most casual games fail too really.  I'm not sure how the situation is in Europe, but in America late last year several large retailers (Target, Best Buy, etc) actually told distributors not to bring them more casual or shovelware titles for Wii, that they won't stock them...