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Soundwave on 10 December 2015
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zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:


France and Germany (two of three larger Euro markets) seem Nintendo friendly, France especially. Nintendo franchises are popular there. They just won't accept a crappy Nintendo console however. 

UK is a tough one for Nintendo, but they could make inroads there too if they are smart and have better hardware than XB1. 

They should consider teaming up with EA to make a FIFA-Mario crossover game (ie: sorta like the Mario Soccer series but have other popular footballers like Messi, Ronaldo, etc. as playable characters too). 

So NES & SNES were crappy consoles? They each did about 8 million in Europe, N64 did a little over 5 million, GameCube did around 4 million and Wii U is on track to do even less than that. Wii is the only Nintendo home console to do significant numbers in Europe.

Nintendo handhelds however have done well, Gameboy did around 40 million, GBA did over 20 million, DS did over 50 million, and 3DS is on track to do around 20 million.


NES and SNES  were victims of Nintendo's piss poor European strategy of the past, quite frankly Nintendo's attitude to Europe in the 80s and 90s was simply that it was a "bonus" market and that the main focus was Japan and USA. They did not view Europe seriously back then. 

Nintendo has thankfully improved in Europe since then, the problem now is though that the Wii U console was simply not a very well thought out console. 

They can beat Microsoft in Europe, I don't have much doubt about that, it's just a matter of having a strong console product that can do it. Another weak console or ill-conceived console though and no. 

While they won't play Sony there, they need to have a product that can credibly stand next to the PS4.