| daveJ said: So is new zealand and Finland the only countries where the wii is coming last? |
Possibly, though there is a reason for it in New Zealand as Viper has said.
They aren't the only countries it isn't "1st" (ahead of PS3 and 360) though, pretty sure a number of Eastern European countries will have PS3 first, whether the X360 beats Wii I don't know, but Nintendo never had good distribution in Eastern Europe until recently (similar thing to New Zealand)
Back in NES and SNES days Europe was an afterthought to Nintendo, partly because Nintendo is a small company in size, and distributing consoles here would have been hugely expensive, and partly because gaming here was very PC oriented... so the NES was really only sent to Western Europe
Sony came along with the PS1, Sony is a huge company who already had distribution channels to most places so it was easy to launch PS1 in a more widespread fashion, so PS1 was the first viable PC alternative for gamers. Many Eastern European countries have only had easy access to Sony consoles for quite a while.
