The PS1: The Biggest Turnaround in Console History?

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

Qwark said:
It sold so much in Europe it succesfully rooted there and has grow very fast. In 1999 the PS1 equalled the lifetime numbers of the SNES. Almost ten million units that's freaking huge and shows that Nintendo should have treated Europe much better to begin with.

People have to understand that Sony was already a massive consumer electronics corporation back then.  They had major retail, distribution, warehousing, wholesales, marketing, etc...all set up in Europe (and elsewhere) that a small company like Nintendo simply couldn't do.  Better stated, Sony was set up to be successful in Europe before the PS even existed.  That's not to take away what Sony accomplished, but to elaborate on why Nintendo never could replicate that even if they wanted to.

Smaller company Sega done better than Nintendo in Europe as well... the always "small Nintendo" excuse can't excuse everything... a company that sells 150M DS and people excuse them having third party representatives in Brazil because they are too humble. I know smaller companies (that profit less than 100M yearly that export and develope more countries than Nintendo).