50K of a population of 300M is abysmal?
Total hardware sales for USA this week: 536K.
Total hardware sales for UK this week: 140K
Population USA: 300M
Population UK: 60M.
Breaking news: UK's gaming sales are worse than abysmal.
For the entire Europe hardware: 642K
Population (excluding Russia) about 550M, as of 1996, so about 600M including Russia (my atlas is from 1996), if not more.
Breaking news: Europe's gaming sales this week are at half of abysmal.
Oh, and for HD only, it is a bit better in Europe, but not close to population difference, same for UK.
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261
That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS