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TheSource said:

Did anyone watch the presentation?

I find Iwata's assessment of Wii Ware fascinating....

He essentially says that he misses the days when one or two guys could develop a concept like Tetris and make a huge amount of money distributing/selling it. Wii Ware he says, was designed as his solution, from a development perspective, to allow talented individuals to go back to a scenario where they can make whatever they want.

Thats admirable.


Yeah, I watched the whole thing, it was a very interesting presentation (although some bits were better than others).  But yes I do agree about WiiWare and I love the idea, but I think you'll agree it never would have happened if he didn't think he could make money doing it =P Nintendo is still a business and all.



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koffieboon said:
BKK2 said:
Last time they had a weekly European chart it only included UK, France, and Germany.

But looking at the sales graphs for the UK, Germany and France you can make some estimations about the sales in the last 3 months. For Wii it indicates almost 500k sold in the UK, between 100-150k sold in Germany and 200-250k in France. Combined this only gets around 800-900k Wiis sold between those 3 countries, while their graph shows weekly sales around 100k. This leaves around 400k Wiis unaccounted for, so they probably added other countries to those numbers as well.


I've now gone through the blown up graphs and counted the pixels so as to calculate the weekly and monthly amounts. It's not exact, but it should only be a few K out. When I compared my figures for Germany to GfK data I already had it matched pretty well. The difference between UK, France, and Germany totals and the total European figures is too much for Spain and Italy to make up. My guess is it includes countries covered by GfK and Chart-Track such as Benelux, Austria, Switzerland etc, but probably doesn't include Scandinavian countries which excluding Denmark aren't covered by these trackers.

Anyway, here's the meat of the data, I'll make a thread with the rest of it in when I have more time:

Quarter 1 2008

PS3

UK: 221k
FR: 134k
DE: 94k
OT: 276k

TT: 725k (31.5%)

Wii

UK: 477k
FR: 245k
DE: 140k
OT: 321k

TT: 1183k (51.4%)

360:

TT: 394k (17.1%)

First 15 Weeks 2007

PS3: 860k (31.3%)
Wii: 1415k (51.6%)
360: 469k (17.1%)

LTD (Q1 08):

UK:

PS3: 1.080m
Wii: 2.563m

FR:

PS3: 656k
Wii: 1.517m

DE:

PS3: 406k
Wii: 916k

Source:






wow good work BKK2



@BKK: Yes, it can't be only Spain, the numbers are just too high for that. We actually had an Adese report recently which also included total hardware numbers for 2006 and 2007 for a number of European countries. Although these numbers include handhelds it is still a decent indicator about the total market size. It shows the UK, France and Germany combined to be about twice as big as Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Portugal combined. Looking at how many units these graphs miss, which is about 600k out of a total of 1900k, this fits pretty will within the 2:1 ratio from the Adese report. Of course Nintendo might have some other countries in their figures compared to Adese, but it does seem to include most of Western Europe.



It's missing Austria, Denmark, Ireland, and Finland, but it covers most of Western Europe.



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1300/600 = 2.17/1. UK, FR, DE/ES, IT = 3/1. It may not actually contain many other countries, but it must contain more than Spain and Italy to make up the Wii numbers. Wii only sold 27.5k in Italy for January & February according to GfK. Nearly 300k in Q1 Spain + March Italy seems too much.

Edit: Corrected % mistake. 



SE is Sweden and NO Norway? Anyway, Nintendo's numbers seem to include a large majority of the total market in Europe, maybe missing 10-20% max for the countries not included.



Yes, Sweden and Norway. Also, it should have been 1300/600, my mistake. ;)



Thanks BKK2.
I aven't listened to the whole video yet because it wasn't streaming well, but I will do so later.



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 So finally BKK2, which countries do you think this graphs concerns?

Only France, United Kingdom, Germany, or it's more?