| Mummelmann said: Anyone surprised at this? I think most of knew/know that China, India and Korea are not massive console markets despite their affinity for tech and high populations. Especially the former two are extremely weak console markets when viewed in context with the massive population. |
I definitely was not.
PC based gaming market, smaller overall console market, etc. Yet people still insisted on pointing to the relative success of the PS2 or DS (portable and console/PC gaming are two entirely different games) as to why Nintendo was "stockpiling" consoles for the Korean market release to partially explain lower than production WW monthly sales as though the market was large enough to have a significant impact.
This is not to say that the Wii won't necessesarily do as well as the PS2 in Korea, but the region lock and lack of Korean ports makes the console a tougher sell until the Korean Wii market sees a larger library of softs.
Still curious to see how the China debut will effect WW sales, but I'm not convinced it will be any higher than Nintendo's projections.
Any information on how large the Chinese launch is supposed to be should give us a fair estimate.
