Nintendo France expecting that Switch sale numbers this year will pass Wii U LT numbers in France

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bonzobanana said:
Is France a big market for Nintendo. Do they really go for portables?

Not exactly an unbiased source though but brilliant if it achieves that.

Looks like pre-orders are still available for launch day on amazon france.

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Well they dominating software sales there every year! They sold 4.3m software units in 2016 in France, 3.3m on 3ds, and 1.1m on the killed wii u.

 

3DS has sold 4.7m as of 2016, expected to sell another 700k units in 2017, same as last year and Pokemon S/M another 450k added to the 806k units sold at retail in 2016, approaching the top selling 3ds game in France, MK7. The unloved wii u is close to 1 million, it was outselling xbox one till 2015 there, mario kart 8  has sold more than 500k.

 For instance YW has sold 222k at retail in France out of the 700k sold ( including digital ) in Europe ( only 50-70k in the UK )... YW was 15th best selling game in France for 2016!

That's enough proof for how much big France is for Nintendo.