One store in Iceland's account: ~100 PS4s sold on midnight launch, 3 WiiU's sold since 2012. (Update: Another sold 800+ PS4)

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Somini said:

prayformojo said:

Somini said:

Dear God!! Seems like Iceland isn't very diverse with their gaming.

Fixed.

I own a PS4, so I'm not trolling but damn, that's ridiculous (only 3 Wii-U's sold). All it tells me is gaming there is far more niche and reserved for a very small consumer base. There's really no other reason because in the US and Japan, both Sony and Nintendo do well.

Yes, but Nintendo has to invest in the market first, before they can have the customers. It seems they're dealing with the country through a third party. That´s not helping their cause.

I honestly think they need to invest in places that they can actually florish in. This use to be the way the industry worked in the NES and SNES days. If they'd do more market research, figure out which territories are going to work and which ones aren't, they could pull out of the ones that are failing and allocate resources and money into the markets that have promise. Sometimes it's better to shrink. That's exactly how Jobs saved Apple when he returned. He cut off the fat, killed things that were wasting their capital and focused on a narrow pathway to success.