OK guys. Here are my photos that can help you see one of the reasons that Nintendo is strugglig in Europe and why it's them who need to pick up their game, not us, Europeans.

So, I live in a 1.3 mil aglomeration, so quite big for Europe. Poland is the 6th economy in the UE, also has the 6th biggest population. These are photos from probably the biggest store with games in my city. I often buy games here.

This is the Sony Domain:

PS3 games:

Are you guys impressed? Add this to the fact that PS3 and X360 games are translated into our language, while Nintendo games aren't. So... can you find another reason why Wii U struggles in Europe? This shop isn't anything extraordinary, it's like that in every shop - if they have Nintendo stuff at all. Smaller shops just skip Nintendo all the way, shops with used games don't deal with Nintendo games as well.

So please, the next time I say Nintendo needs to pull its sh*t together and start caring about us, don't attack me for it. Nintendo doesn't give a f*ck about us and they get what they deserve! If you don't care about a market, you won't achieve a success. Simple as that. When Nintendo looks at Europe, they only see UK, France and maybe Germany and totally p*ss on the rest of the continent. Their competition is active here and doing fine. Nintendo will never challenge them this way and only Nintendo is to blame for this situation. So you'd better not expect Wii U sales to challenge Sony and MS in Europe. They don't deserve to.

So polish shops hate Nintendo. That is really impressive. I live in germany. Should I take photos here?

Both our countries have the Euro, so come over and buy Nintendo-products here in germany. Where the shops doesn't hate Nintendo that obviously like in Poland.

What? Seriously? You really think it's the Polish shops that hate Nintendo? Ok, think about this. There is no Nintendo Poland. The consoles are being imported by some Austrian company called Stadlbauer, so there is no support, no representatives that care about the franchise and the products and could, for example, go to a shop and negotiate some space on the shelves. There are no ads, no nothing. If I select Poland as my country of origin in my Wii, I can't play online or browse Internet - it just blocks all online features. I have to play under an Irish flag (cause online works when I select a different country!) and I find it kinda humiliating. It's not the shops that hate Nintendo. It's Nintendo that doesn't give a crap about us. And they get what they deserve. Like I said, Nintendo looks at Europe and sees UK, France and Germany. And there's a lot more to Europe than that. I mean, just look:

http://www.nintendo.pl/

What do you see in their Polish official page? A Wii and a DSi. DSi!! There is a section for 3DS, but nothing dealing with Wii U. So yeah, it's the shops. It's not Nintendo's fault, no way... They are the victims, we are just a nation of haters. Keep on believing this. Even at the bottom of the page you can see it belongs to "Nintendo GmbH", so not to a company established in Poland ("GmbH" is a German for "Ltd.", Polish one is "Sp. z o.o.").

PS. We don't have Euro in Poland (thank God...). We have our own currency, Złoty. I hope it stays this way.

What? Seriously? You really think it's the Polish shops that hate Nintendo? Ok, think about this. There is no Nintendo Poland. The consoles are being imported by some Austrian company called Stadlbauer, so there is no support, no representatives that care about the franchise and the products and could, for example, go to a shop and negotiate some space on the shelves. There are no ads, no nothing. If I select Poland as my country of origin in my Wii, I can't play online or browse Internet - it just blocks all online features. I have to play under an Irish flag (cause online works when I select a different country!) and I find it kinda humiliating. It's not the shops that hate Nintendo. It's Nintendo that doesn't give a crap about us. And they get what they deserve. Like I said, Nintendo looks at Europe and sees UK, France and Germany. And there's a lot more to Europe than that. I mean, just look:

http://www.nintendo.pl/

What do you see in their Polish official page? A Wii and a DSi. DSi!! There is a section for 3DS, but nothing dealing with Wii U. So yeah, it's the shops. It's not Nintendo's fault, no way... They are the victims, we are just a nation of haters. Keep on believing this. Even at the bottom of the page you can see it belongs to "Nintendo GmbH", so not to a company established in Poland ("GmbH" is a German for "Ltd.", Polish one is "Sp. z o.o.").

PS. We don't have Euro in Poland (thank God...). We have our own currency, Złoty. I hope it stays this way.

We europeans are no strange beast - we are simply different countries, unlike the other two regions that consist only (Japan) or mainly (America) of sales in one country. But people from Spain, the UK, France, Poland or Italy have often a different culture and different tastes. It got a bit easier now that many of the countries have the same currency, but by far not all have. There are different governmental regulations, different languages and so on. That all makes the business difficult in europe - but that doesn't makes us strange.  

This is a thread about why Nintendo is doing so bad in Europe, so I showed you one additional reason. I bet most people here didn't know how Nintendo treats European countries that aren't called UK, Germany or France. People here tried to put the blame on "Europeans", so I showed you that it's not our faul, that's all. I'm just presenting the situation to you. Personally, I don't care about the Wii U at all, there is no way I'm getting it the next 2-3 year, but I'm not a hater, I own a Wii and a DSi. I'm just reporting something that probably is news to most of you.

I mean, just look at my sig, I'm not playing Uncharted: Golden Abyss. I'm playing Uncharted: Złota Otchłań, a fully translated and dubbed by movie stars version of the game. If Sony cares to do that, why should anyone care about Nintendo, which doesn't even care to put a photo of 3DS or Wii U on their web page? And people complain we are "Sonyland"...

I'm sorry about the situation in your country, hope it changes. Just bear in mind, that in my country we have 2 companies that treat us the way they should in Sony and MS (since November 2010, when they finally launched Live) and we have Nintendo that doesn't exist here. You wonder why they lose in the market? I think this is one of the reasons.

This is a thread about why Nintendo is doing so bad in Europe, so I showed you one additional reason. I bet most people here didn't know how Nintendo treats European countries that aren't called UK, Germany or France. People here tried to put the blame on "Europeans", so I showed you that it's not our faul, that's all. I'm just presenting the situation to you. Personally, I don't care about the Wii U at all, there is no way I'm getting it the next 2-3 year, but I'm not a hater, I own a Wii and a DSi. I'm just reporting something that probably is news to most of you.

I mean, just look at my sig, I'm not playing Uncharted: Golden Abyss. I'm playing Uncharted: Złota Otchłań, a fully translated and dubbed by movie stars version of the game. If Sony cares to do that, why should anyone care about Nintendo, which doesn't even care to put a photo of 3DS or Wii U on their web page? And people complain we are "Sonyland"...

I'm sorry about the situation in your country, hope it changes. Just bear in mind, that in my country we have 2 companies that treat us the way they should in Sony and MS (since November 2010, when they finally launched Live) and we have Nintendo that doesn't exist here. You wonder why they lose in the market? I think this is one of the reasons.

No offence mate but if any of us ran companies we'd probably do the same in favouring the UK, Germany and such, Eastern Europe is a very PC orientated region with many players being into RTS', Counter Strike and such, the total console sales from the usual  EU countries like UK, France, Germany and so on may very well be more then all the smaller EU contries combined which is why Nintendo often has a third party company deal with the smaller countries instead of directly.

I highly doubt Sony does well because of the effort put in but more because of the diverse taste the entire EU has. Nintendo tends to have a slow start in EU because our launches are always erratic but they eventually go on to become strong in the bigger EU countries because the first party library are sort after like gold in them, the main reason Wii U at the moment is doing as well here is because we hardly have any stock to begin with. 125k at launch across the whole EU?