German sales for 2011:
3DS: 600.000
DS: 500.000
Wii: 800.000
3DS had the most successful launch ever.
- 20% more than the original DS in 2005
Installed base of the Nintendo DS family:
- 8.6 million
- that probably means 8 million without the 3DS
Wii is the most successful console ever.
- Installed base of 5 million
- "uncontested market leader" in 2011
- 3DS+DS+Wii = 60% of the German hardware market
- 40% of all software sales were for a Nintendo platform; around Christmas every second title sold was for a Nintendo platform
Software Wii:
Wii is a "family, party, and sports console" in Germany:
- most successful Wii title was Wii Party; number 4 in the all platform chart
- Just Dance 3 was also a huge successful, it was the most successful game across all platforms
- Wii Fit Plus sold 300.000 copies in 2011; they say because of their marketing campaign with Steffi Graf
- Zumba Fitness - Join the Party was another highly successful title
Traditional titles were almost non-existant, therefore there's not much to mention:
- Skyward Sword reached six-digit numbers
- the same holds true for New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Mario Kart Wii
Software Handhelds: [3rd parties am cry]
- Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3DS Land are number 1 and 2 in the 3DS game charts of 2011; reached a six-digit figure
- Ocarina of Time 3D is number 3, it also sold more than 100.000 units
- same holds true for nintendogs + cats, which is on number 4
- Pokemon Black/White sold 600.000 units, are the two best-selling DS titles in 2011
- New Super Mario Bros. comes in as number 3
- Professor Layton & the Spectre's Call is number 4 [total Layton sales reach more than 1 million in Germany]
VGC :
| PS3 | 800,872 | (+7%) | 3,271,468 |
| Wii | 641,668 | (-26%) | 4,627,649 |
| 3DS | 548,589 | (-26%) | 548,589 |
| X360 | 542,688 | (-2%) | 2,459,809 |
| DS | 492,058 | (-52%) | 8,373,538 |
| PSP | 182,942 | (+1%) |
1,785,622 |
If Wi was the leader means Ps3 is overtracked by some.
