Global Weekly, 26th August 2017, Hardware and Software

[curl-6]

Shaunodon said:

curl-6 said:

Actually Nintendo has a fairly strong foundation here in Aus; by late 2010 Wii had sold over 2 million here and DS over 3 million; we're a country of just 23 million people, so 1 in 10 Aussies had a Wii and 1 in 8 a DS.

You can't really count the Wii since that thing was just a worldwide phenomenon. It wasn't really so much a game console as it was the must-have entertainment product.

Of course everyone here also had a Wii, but they only had Wii Sports and if they were gamers maybe Smash, and after a few months it just sat in their closets.

Wii is still a Nintendo console, and big-name Nintendo franchises like Mario sold really well on it as well, so it seeded a lot of recognition and fondness for their IP. Stuff like Mario Kart and Smash are well known and liked here for instance.