Looks like I have to post this again because some people don't read every post.

Nintendo always had a very poor distributor for New Zealand and in 2008 the company, Softprint Interactive, went bankrupt. Nintendo Australia eventually picked up distribution duties but it's still very pathetic there.

I thought VGC Australia numbers were Australia + New Zealand?

Well it seems I like crap then and not a real console!

I'm pretty sure it's not or else PS2 would be massively undertracked in the region and everything else would be noticeably undertracked.

Possibly, though there is a reason for it in New Zealand as Viper has said.

They aren't the only countries it isn't "1st" (ahead of PS3 and 360) though, pretty sure a number of Eastern European countries will have PS3 first, whether the X360 beats Wii I don't know, but Nintendo never had good distribution in Eastern Europe until recently (similar thing to New Zealand)

Back in NES and SNES days Europe was an afterthought to Nintendo, partly because Nintendo is a small company in size, and distributing consoles here would have been hugely expensive, and partly because gaming here was very PC oriented... so the NES was really only sent to Western Europe

Sony came along with the PS1, Sony is a huge company who already had distribution channels to most places so it was easy to launch PS1 in a more widespread fashion, so PS1 was the first viable PC alternative for gamers. Many Eastern European countries have only had easy access to Sony consoles for quite a while.

be nice to New Zealand ppl, it gave us Peter Jackson

Make that one of two countries :)

In Poland Nintendo for both Wii+DS counted together is around 10% market share by estimates :D

Hah, I guess theres Poland too...

Indeed I always find the numbers hilarious, I remember Rath talking about it.

LoL at Xbox > Xbox 360 ... Is this for real?