What's the deal with the Wii U in Europe?

[Mnementh]

Gamerace said:

bananaking21 said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

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New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Wii

2009

Platform

Nintendo

NA: 13.04

EU: 6.36

JP: 4.60

Rest: 2.21

All: 26.21

 

There we have (some of) it. They are not very interested in New Super Mario Bros. U and already have PS3/360/PC for third party titles, so they will wait for more exclusive system sellers.

yeah it just sold 6.36 million. they clearly are not interested in the game. you do notice it sold in EU more than japan right? and WiiU numbers in japan are higher than in EU. its not because of SMB

There is something to that argument.   Nintendo was never big in Europe (home console wise) before Wii.  It was Sega and then Sony in PAL regions.  They don't have the same nastalgic love for 2D Mario that NA/Japan has and this is the second helping of 2D Mario this year.     Same factor comes into play with NintendoLand.

A Wii Sports type launch title might have helped European sales (especially if it had football/cricket this time)

That sounds like a much better explanation.