Reggie said:
About 40 percent of Wii sales have been in North America and Latin America, while 35 percent were in Asia, primarily Japan, and the rest came from Europe and the Middle East |
I was hoping to use these percentages to get a good number for Europe, but I just can't get the 40% NA to match up with the 35% Asia (primarily Japan). Media Create and Famitsu have Wii around 3.8M in Japan, and it's hardly been released anywhere else in Asia, so that couldn't account for much more. Now NPD through October was around 5.5M for US and Canada. I can't see any way to make these figures fit. His figures work out that Wii sales in Asia are 87.5% of NA, but NPD and Media Create work out at around 70% of NA sales. This includes 2 extra weeks for Japan which aren't included in NPD data, so it should infact be even lower. Does not compute.
Shame, as I thought I'd be able to extrapolate EU numbers.