Here are some PAL stats... we don't collect all PAL regions anymore as it's way too much effort, but I have done a full data set in week 12 of 2009 (so it's missing 1 weeks worth to be true to Q1 2009, but near enough) and then over 2 years later in week 15 of 2011 (so the 2.6 mil figure has a couple of extra weeks)
| UK | PAL regions | |
| Q1 2008 | - |
- |
| Q2 | 118,873 | |
| Q3 | 249,095 | 749,982 |
| Q4 | 326,088 | 1,018,696 |
| Q1 2009 | 417,463 | 1,297,201 |
| Q2 | 469,366 | |
| Q3 | 519,675 | |
| Q4 | 574,474 | |
| Q1 2010 | 649,205 | |
| Q2 | 684,553 | |
| Q3 | 713,291 | |
| Q4 | 749,525 | |
| Q1 2011 | 787,621 | 2,602,708 |
| Q2 | 813,464 | |
| Q3 | 835,694 | |
| Q4 | 857,789 |
The PAL regions included are: UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, BeNeLux, Spain, Italy, Scandanavia, Greece, Portugal, Australia & New Zealand.
As you can see by the lower figure PAL regions are less likely to be online (the nearest recent comparison with The Source's figures is Q1 2011 for PAL, which is 3 months after the 5,193,000 for Dec 2010 Americas) True the Wii userbase is higher in the Americas, but not by the same ratio as Nintendo Channel users.
Of course it's also possible that PAL users simply don't have as much reason to use the Nintendo Channel, (the figures in this thread do not represent the actual number of online Wii users, merely the number who share their data with Nintendo on the Nintendo Channel) but it's a free channel, and simply checking into it once makes you count as a user.
