| Shadow1980 said: Damn, Japan. Is everyone saving their money for the PS4 or something? Those hardware numbers are terrible for everyone (though the Vita is up quite a bit YoY even if it is trailing way behind the PSP). Y'know, I had a feeling that America would be the biggest market for the Wii U, and these recent numbers seem to be confirming that. The Wii U is way up YoY so far in the U.S. (last two weeks were double the corresponding weeks of 2013) and NA was about 45% of all Wii U sales for the week ending the 18th. While it's up in Europe as well, that's not saying much as sales in Europe are only half of what they are in America so far this year. It makes sense, as North America represented the majority of all N64 and GameCube sales. We're still the most Nintendo-friendly market there is. |
Wii U also relied very heavily upon NA sales before the holidays set in, this was to be expected. I don't think any home console will do very well in Japan for the 8th gen.
