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

[DanneSandin]

Scisca said:

Mnementh said:

Scisca said:

OK guys. Here are my photos that can help you see one of the reasons that Nintendo is strugglig in Europe and why it's them who need to pick up their game, not us, Europeans.

So, I live in a 1.3 mil aglomeration, so quite big for Europe. Poland is the 6th economy in the UE, also has the 6th biggest population. These are photos from probably the biggest store with games in my city. I often buy games here.

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So please, the next time I say Nintendo needs to pull its sh*t together and start caring about us, don't attack me for it. Nintendo doesn't give a f*ck about us and they get what they deserve! If you don't care about a market, you won't achieve a success. Simple as that. When Nintendo looks at Europe, they only see UK, France and maybe Germany and totally p*ss on the rest of the continent. Their competition is active here and doing fine. Nintendo will never challenge them this way and only Nintendo is to blame for this situation. So you'd better not expect Wii U sales to challenge Sony and MS in Europe. They don't deserve to.

So polish shops hate Nintendo. That is really impressive. I live in germany. Should I take photos here?

Both our countries have the Euro, so come over and buy Nintendo-products here in germany. Where the shops doesn't hate Nintendo that obviously like in Poland.

What? Seriously? You really think it's the Polish shops that hate Nintendo? Ok, think about this. There is no Nintendo Poland. The consoles are being imported by some Austrian company called Stadlbauer, so there is no support, no representatives that care about the franchise and the products and could, for example, go to a shop and negotiate some space on the shelves. There are no ads, no nothing. If I select Poland as my country of origin in my Wii, I can't play online or browse Internet - it just blocks all online features. I have to play under an Irish flag (cause online works when I select a different country!) and I find it kinda humiliating. It's not the shops that hate Nintendo. It's Nintendo that doesn't give a crap about us. And they get what they deserve. Like I said, Nintendo looks at Europe and sees UK, France and Germany. And there's a lot more to Europe than that. I mean, just look:

http://www.nintendo.pl/

What do you see in their Polish official page? A Wii and a DSi. DSi!! There is a section for 3DS, but nothing dealing with Wii U. So yeah, it's the shops. It's not Nintendo's fault, no way... They are the victims, we are just a nation of haters. Keep on believing this. Even at the bottom of the page you can see it belongs to "Nintendo GmbH", so not to a company established in Poland ("GmbH" is a German for "Ltd.", Polish one is "Sp. z o.o.").

 

PS. We don't have Euro in Poland (thank God...). We have our own currency, Złoty. I hope it stays this way.

I think you're in a similar situation as we Nordic folks; we got a company that imports and distributes Nintendo's games. We're apparently too small for Nintendo to care about. So it's not Nintendo's fault really, it's the middle hands!