I only just noticed this! it's a small feat, but interesting to see 360 can outsell wii here, something the 360 hasn't done in America since .. Halo 3?!

The UK is a wierd market. I just look at all the houses with the identical style and brick and I think to myself how is this not any less conformist than Japan? If the Wii isn't the 'in' thing then it doesn't surprise me that its not doing as well as in other areas.

I am quite surprised, I know there have been Alan Wake adverts on TV, but not that many... maybe it is because the amount of Nintendo ads has dropped off recently. I am used to seeing their ads on all the time, but apart from a few SMG 2 ads, not much

Now there are three things i can admire the brits for :


Having good taste in video games

Having great rock bands

Surviving their own food ;)

Have you seen how well Just Dance has done? (Or whatever it is called)

Yeah it's a shame, but nobody is perfect, and UK does really well when compared to others, especially Japan

Xenophobia is one of the reasons Japan doesn't have good charts :

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/01/square-enix-says-japanese-retail-prejudiced-against-western-games/

“Even now, there have been people in Japan using the label youge- (Western games) with a terribly discriminatory meaning,” Wada said in an interview Japanese TV from last December in which he discussed Square Enix and Modern Warfare 2, which it published in Japan. “I’d like them to try it once. If they play it once, they’d realise how incorrect that label is.”

As we previously mentioned, the term “youge-” has been used to separate Japanese games from foreign titles, which, until recently, were believed to have little or no appeal to Japanese gamers. “Game” (ゲーム）refers to video games. “Youge-” (洋ゲー）means something else – these games are different, they are the other.

Wada clarified the reluctance to embrace Western games in Japan somewhat. “Well, actually, I’ve found the person that is prejudiced is actually the retailer and not the actual players,” Wada told website Edge Online. “The retailers have a prejudice against overseas titles, and they won’t procure them.”

Thats very good, but.......why did it outsell it?

So much for that fad. I'm jk fgs... reellaaax.

Actually, didn't NPD claim it beat the Wii in like February?