I dont buy the economic crisis excuse

DS and Wii had record sales during the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 (nintendo had record profits)...next excuse.

TEH NINTENDO DOMAIN!!

Ta-damm!

Oh yeah! This is ALL! There is no other hidden stand, nothing else. You may notice, there are no consoles here. I asked the clerk about it and they said they have one Wii U in store, but they don't want to waste the display space, so it's in the warehouse.

If you look close you may see a brilliant division that helps to cover all the Nintendo consoles:

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.

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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.

I am speechless. The Poles are amazing!

Economy? (look at Greece for instance)

Their undying love for Sony products?

I have no idea to be honest..

Nintendo could have a hard time trying to appeal to the European crowd, as they are a strange beast when it comes to taste in games, and hard to pinpoint.. You know to get Japanese support you just need to crank out Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy, 2D Mario, quirky mini games, JRPGs, etc.. In the US you of course have FPS, WRPGs, 2D Mario, Dance games, etc.. But what to Europeans favor? I guess if we were going to go by their love of Sony games, I'd say it's more cinema heavy action/adventure games, but cinema heavy isn't really Nintendo's style (thankfully), so I dunno...

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:

More games (and some dude's butt):

A stand with games for PS Move:

Vita games:

PSP games:

Vitas and PSPs:

Wonderbook:

There are also stands with PS3s, with accessories for Vita, PSP and PS3, but I'm going to spare you these photos ;) So to sum up, there is quite a big choice, you can always find something for you, Playstations is strong.

Now, the Microsoft Domain:

A bunch of accessories:

Gaemz!

Moar gaemz!

Kinect Gaemz!

There are also some other random stands with some X360 games, accessories, the consoles, etc. It's less than Sony, but it still is present, it's really comparable to what PS3 gets.

Moreover, there are also 4 consoles people can play in the store. You can play an X-box 360 Kinect game, a PS3 Move game, PS All Stars Battle Royal and a Vita.

So what is left?...

TEH NINTENDO DOMAIN!!

Ta-damm!

Oh yeah! This is ALL! There is no other hidden stand, nothing else. You may notice, there are no consoles here. I asked the clerk about it and they said they have one Wii U in store, but they don't want to waste the display space, so it's in the warehouse.

If you look close you may see a brilliant division that helps to cover all the Nintendo consoles:

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.