Mnementh said:
Chrizum said:
Mnementh said:
Chrizum said:
Mnementh said:
Right, but the same applies to the other 3rd-party-multiplats and other regions. Given the popularity of football (for americans: soccer) in europe, it may explain a little difference, but the WiiU is doing much worse in Europe than elsewhere. And it has a FIFA. The Wii got no FIFA at all and did better than the WiiU. In europe, as the WiiU does the same at the moment in the US and nearly as much in Japan. So I'm totally missing the explanation, why it is special for europe, that the WiiU bombs.
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@bolded: what are you on about? Of course Wii had FIFA, every system since the dawn of time has FIFA.
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The Wii had one late in 2007, but not at launch. At least according to VGChartz-gamedatabase. I don't care for FIFA (although I'm a european and moreso a german), that's why I don't remember myself.
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The Wii did have one at the EU launch. Also, you said Wii got no FIFA "at all", which really isn't true at all. FIFA has no relevance to the succes of a console whatsoever, except when tjat console actually doesn't have FIFA for it (because it really is popular here in EU).
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So FIFA 07 was released on Wii? Because Wii released worldwide in some weeks (like WiiU) and was available here at 2006. The VGChartz-database at least has FFA 07 for many platforms, but not Wii:
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=fifa+07
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I could've sworn Wii had FIFA 07 but you're right, it didn't. However, since FIFA is a multiplatform title and has never been that big on Nintendo consoles I seriously doubt having a FIFA game at launch is that important for the Wii U.
What I think is that the EU market is much more heterogeneous and diverse than the JP or USA market. So in order for a console to succeed, it needs a variety of big hitters, not just Mario or FIFA or Halo (for example). I think the Wii U is struggling a bit because it doesn't stand out yet amongst the other consoles. In USA, there are a LOT more Nintendo fans and they will gobble up Mario. Having NSMB at launch was a really good strategy for Nintendo, but less effective in EU.
