Europe Not Backing Down On Wii Sales Challenge!
Bucky | January 29, 2008
I’ve been checking out the ol’ My Wii News blog today and I was partially amazed and partially disappointed that Japan has sold only 5 Million Wii units. Not that I’m particularly crazy or anything, because I DO realize that 5 Million is a damn big number, but I was really hoping for the figures to show more for the Japanese fanboys…
Because Europe just hit 6 Million Wii sales!
This will really show Bucky why Wii consoles are very hard to find. 
The story, derived from MCV, reported that the Nintendo Wii sales had just hit 6 Million as of January 2008 along with whopping 20 Million DS sales. That’s one hell of a lot of Nintendo cash if you can imagine just counting the sales from both Japan and Europe. And considering the fact that Nintendo has sold over 20 Million Wiis last year, Japan and Europe just bought an estimate of 55% of all Wii consoles manufactured for the whole world!
Honestly, I’m already at a lost for words…
Now, between Europe and Japan, I must say that the Europeans won in terms of Wii sales just because it’s a whole continent versus a single country filled with crazy people (Japan). But these are still very impressive figures since Nintendo support has been focused on Japan ever since its birth, and from what I have read, Nintendo even treats its European consumers like crap, so I guess this news is reason enough for them to give more support to the European market, no?
Besides the fact that they are very rich people too! 
