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http://kotaku.com/gaming/its-french/french-wine-dine-nintendo-consoles-264678.php

French site ITRgames has got hold of some overall sales data for Nintendo's consoles. The short of it is, the French are going nuts nuts for Nintendo hardware. The Wii has sold an impressive 410,000 units since December, while the DS is even more impressive, with 2.54 million sold since launch.

Accompanying the big Nintendo love-in were some first-quarter figures for all consoles:

  • DS - 398,000
  • Wii - 230,000
  • PS2 - 92,000
  • PSP - 90,000
  • PS3 - 81,000
  • 360 - 43,000
  • Interesting. The DS and Wii, we know about them, they sell, with the PSP and PS3 assuming their regular places towards the rear. Big change here, though, is the 360, which the French obviously believe to be carrying smallpox within its creamy exterior. That's all I can think of to explain its dismal sales. That or the fact it's American.



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    Probably because it's American...because...that makes so much sense. Nothing good could ever come from our dumb country. 



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    Bet with disolitude: Left4Dead will have a higher Metacritic rating than Project Origin, 3 months after the second game's release.  (hasn't been 3 months but it looks like I won :-p )

    Already been posted:

    http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=2489 



    FishyJoe said:

    Already been posted:

    http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=2489 


    Well someone defends his turf well .



    That's amazing, That makes me feel like making a big Nintendo Love thread, look out for it.



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    Official numbers of the first quarter of 2007.... When did the PS3 come out in Europe? March (end of 1st quarter). So do those Wii numbers look that amazing considering it had like 4 months longer in the market? And despite the PS3 coming out for a few weeks it still outsold the 360 for 3 months, that's gotta hurt...



    Thanks to Blacksaber for the sig!

    The gap between the Wii and PS3 should have widened following March. So yes, those numbers are quite good for Nintendo.



    FishyJoe said:
    The gap between the Wii and PS3 should have widened following March. So yes, those numbers are quite good for Nintendo.

     Do you know that as a fact?



    Thanks to Blacksaber for the sig!

    I do... there is no way a console will continue to sell at the same rate as it's launch week. However there is no doubt that the PS3 will post a higher number than 81,000 for the next quarter of course.



    I'm looking at the VGC numbers. I wouldn't call it fact, but I don't have any reason to think they are far off.