If I'm not mistaken, Master System outsold the NES in the UK, and the Genesis/Megadrive outsold the SNES. So I don't give much for English tastes when it comes to computer and video games :P No just kidding, but clearly much of Nintendos low performance in this chart has to do with traditions and game culture that goes way back. N64 was clearly outsold by PS, GC was miles away from both PS2 and Xbox, and even the almighty Wii was struggling in the UK. Just as the Xbox brand is virtually non existent in Japan, so is the Nintendo brand virtually invisible in the UK from time to time . Wierd things do happen in this industry, and in some cases they are unexplainable, as Nintendo's traditionally low performance in the UK is.
It comes at a huge loss for UK consumer's though, who generally has missed out on some of the best software ever produced. Strange things do happen... ;)
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