360 Japan > WiiU UK (first year)

[Mummelmann]

JWeinCom said:

Seece said:

JWeinCom said:

Seece said:

I did, weak reasoning. The home console bases are what they are.

You want another comparison?

Wii Japan - 13m
Wii UK - 8.5m

WiiU Japan - 1.2m
WiiU UK - 150k

It's vastly underperforming here.

Noone said it wasn't underperforming. Just that the comparison was stupid.

The comparison was made to highlight how much WiiU is underperforming, so in that regard I don't think it is.

The comparison implies that population should have no impact on the sales of a product which is lol stupid.  Aside from the XBox 360, EVERY current and last gen system has sold more in Japan than in the UK.  That makes sense cause you know, the population is about twice as big. So, to not expect lower sales in the UK is stupid.

First off, Japan does not have 160 million inhabitants as you stated in your first post, the real number is closer to 130 million.

Second thing; the market is comprised of more than home consoles, look at how huge portable consoles are in Japan, the PSP has almost 20 million sales there and the 3DS over 13 million so far, the UK has about 4.5 million PSP's and 2.6 million 3DS sales, but the population isn't 1/4 or 1/5. Simply put; home console are huge in the UK per capita, as they are in Scandinavia and to an extent in the US, while handhelds are huge in Japan so for the purpose of comparison, it is perfectly viable to compare home console sales between the UK and Japan despite the difference in population, and the point for illustration still stands regardless. Doubly so when considering the fact that Nintendo consoles have historically done pretty well in Europe while xbox was always below every radar in Japan.