China is not a huge market in terms of entertainment. They rip, steal and pirate everything there so there's no real point of even tracking the 5 people that actually bought a legitimate Nintendo product over there.

it is sort of hard to pirate hardware. You can hack it, but you still need to buy the system in the first place. Although, you are right, the hardware market isn't very big.

They have a way around "pirating" hardware. They make their own versions of popular systems (Nintendo Vii) at a dirt cheap price (obviously far inferior technology) and create essentially rip off (but not pirate) versions of flagship titles, such as Vii sports, Mario, etc.

Nintendo doesn't include iQue sales with their totals, as iQue is considered a joint venture and not a full subsidiary (like NOA).   Sony does include Chinese PS2/PSP sales from SCEH (Hong Kong / China) in their hardware totals however, and a couple times even delineated them from NA/EU/JP iirc.

Does iQue manufacture them or simply distribute them with their branding? If Nintendo manufacture them then I guess it is counted as a DS unit sold when they sell them to iQue. Its like a revision but for selling to a particular client. If they dont then its probably not counted.

the whole ique affair is so weird..... why can't  Nintendo just spread its own brand in china?

I made a thread like this a year ago... >_>

Becaused companies outside of China needs to be sponsored by a chinese company in order to sell products there. For your personal knowledge, those sponsors along with the Chinese government take a higher margin of profit then a usual distributor.

I didn't  absolutely know about this! Thank you for you explenation!