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FishyJoe on 23 November 2008

Wii Music #1!!!



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Infamy79 on 23 November 2008

Would need to check with the numbers guys online to see if VGChartz could be under tracking the Wii in Australia. Looking at the charts here it has Wii at 586k, that's a pretty big difference to the 750k reported here, around 1/3rd of an increase.

Not sure how many retail sources they have here in Oz



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TWRoO on 23 November 2008
noname2200 said:
konnichiwa said:
A moment I thought Nintendo used all their profit to buy Australia.

Anyway is their a country that Nintendo doesn't own yet and is owned by a other console?

New Zealand and Portugal stand fast against the Wii menace, although both are showing serious cracks. And officially Mexico is 360 country, although it's been a while since I heard that.

Er...that's about it.

New Zealand is probably the worst purpetrator [sp?] in terms of marketshare.. However some other countries have another console still leading in total sales (unsure about weekly sales though) Norway and Finland are still PS-centric I think, and I am unsure about Belgium but if it is now Wii-led then it was only recently it managed it. Most Eastern European countries where Sony had actually built up an original userbase with PS1 and 2 (Nintendo pretty much ignored Eastern Europe even when it was a dominant force) will still be mainly PS3 places too.



Silentburritoassasin on 23 November 2008

awesome.



shams on 23 November 2008

To top it off, software doing pretty well. WiiMusic outsold World at War (360 or PS3, not combined) on their debut week.



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Imthelegend on 24 November 2008

They sold 25k consoles as well in 1 week. Thats a huge amount in a country as small marketwise as Australia is. Well done Nintendo.



 


 

Kantor on 24 November 2008

I believe PS3 is winning in Italy.



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Oyvoyvoyv on 24 November 2008
Kantor said:
I believe PS3 is winning in Italy.

 

 VGChartz disagrees with you.

http://vgchartz.com/ehweekly.php

http://vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons%5B%5D=Wii&cons%5B%5D=PS3&cons%5B%5D=X360&reg%5B%5D=Italy&start=39453&end=39768



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

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celine on 24 November 2008
scottie said:

I believe the PS3 and Wii are about tied in Italy still

Wii has not been released in China or India, so certainly isn't winning there

In September GFK numbers for Italy Wii install base just surpassed the PS3 one.

An incredible feat because here in Italy the Playstation brand is very strong.

 



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kamil on 24 November 2008

@konnichiwa:
The weakest region for Wii still would be New Zealand. It's not non-existant there (since week 40 when they changed distributor to Nintendo Australia) anymore but still much worse than HD consoles. For last 5 weeks best selling game in NZ was on X360 platform.

Scandinavia is the other region where Wii isn't doing that great compared to rest of the world but it's hard to give preciese numbers. I know that difference between Wii and PS3 was minimal some time ago in Norway (both probably were lower than 360).

In Italy Wii made huge progress this year and now PS3 and Wii userbase are similar there. The best this-gen (home consoles) game in Italy is probably WiiFit with around 230k units sold however PES 2009 (PS3) has a chance of beting it (it stands at around 180k).