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Thanks to pickwick:

Originally Posted by pickwick

According Stephane Bole (CEO of Nintendo France), Wii sold at 410 000 in france, LTD, and DS at 2,54 millions LTD.
(thanks to itrgames.com)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...&postcount=340

Very impressive sales for both Nintendo platforms.

hm... i didnt expect that

Originally Posted by starship

Thanks to pickwick:


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...&postcount=340

Very impressive sales for both Nintendo platforms.

you know, there's a big nintendo sales thread...

Not bad at all.

Is there data for how many X360s have sold?

Wow. Anecdotal evidence, but most of my friends have a wii. And some have an x360 on top of that.

A listing of what the other consoles (PS2, PSP, PS3, 360) have sold in France during the same time period would be nicey. :)

Go France!

I guess. :lol

The French 360 LTD would be great so we could better categorise this number, but I think it's clear that 410.000 in itself is a pretty big number for a new console on the French market.

Originally Posted by Haunted One

The French 360 LTD would be great so we could better categorise this number, but I think it's clear that 410.000 in itself is a pretty big number for a new console on the French market.

Considering I'd never really linked video games to the French at all(just doesn't seem to go with the culture) this is pretty high for the DS at least.

France is Nintendo friendly. Even the sales for the Gamecube were not bad (compared to other countries).

France definitely has some good taste when it comes to games... I remember DQ8 scoring a lot of sales there, too.

So, are there any numbers for GC's lifetime?

Originally Posted by Neo C.

France is Nintendo friendly. Even the sales for the Gamecube were not bad (compared to other countries).

Personally what is more shocking to me is how England and Germany have accepted the wii since they are not traditional "Nintendo Friendly" nations.

If only NoE could give us some damned blasted games now...

Originally Posted by Souldriver

So, are there any numbers for GC's lifetime?

In France? A little more than 1M.

Originally Posted by Jackano

In France? A little more than 1M.

Is that true?


****ing wow, if so.

Originally Posted by Jackano

In France? A little more than 1M.

So, let's say the Wii is at 1/3th of the GC's lifetime sales. That impressive.

Originally Posted by Jackano

In France? A little more than 1M.

You serious?

41% LTD of the cube in 6 months? :D

Originally Posted by Jackano

In France? A little more than 1M.

And many people considered the GC a success in France. Damn, that really makes these Wii numbers look incredible if that GC fugure is true.

Originally Posted by Hcoregamer00

You serious?

41% LTD of the cube in 6 months? :D

Indeed. If things continue as they are, the Wii should eclipse the GC in sales.

Originally Posted by Hcoregamer00

You serious?

41% LTD of the cube in 6 months? :D

Well, that seems to be the trend in both Europe and Japan. Wii in Japan is I believe now over halfway to GC's lifetime sales. It could actually exceed them this year.

In 8 month, Nintendo sold "only" 350000 DS (from march 11th 2005 to November 2005)...

http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/infor...,00.htm?xtor=1

Yea, I think Cube outsold XBox in France.

Cube only sold ~5M in all of Europe.

Originally Posted by schuelma

Well, that seems to be the trend in both Europe and Japan. Wii in Japan is I believe now over halfway to GC's lifetime sales. It could actually exceed them this year.

Yeah, that is a scary thought, having the Wii outsell the cube in both Europe and Japan before the end of the year.

It is scary because no one could have predicted in their wildest dreams that the wii would sell this well.

GCN was at 1,07 million at the end of 2004, so it is probably at ~1,3 million by now.

Originally Posted by Hcoregamer00

Yeah, that is a scary thought, having the Wii outsell the cube in both Europe and Japan before the end of the year.

It is scary because no one could have predicted in their wildest dreams that the wii would sell this well.

It's currently ahead of the PS2 if you count sales in the same time line (6 months).

At least the last time I checked it was.

Originally Posted by Eteric Rice

It's currently ahead of the PS2 if you count sales in the same time line (6 months).

At least the last time I checked it was.

The weirdest thing is that the quality games haven't even been released on the console. I certainly hoped they upped production once Smash Bros. comes out or there will be lots of sad face this Christmas.

Originally Posted by bud

you know, there's a big nintendo sales thread...

Exactly. Anyway, WOW at Nintendo's performance. The Gamecube and N64's days seems so faraway....

Originally Posted by Hcoregamer00

The weirdest thing is that the quality games haven't even been released on the console. I certainly hoped they upped production once Smash Bros. comes out or there will be lots of sad face this Christmas.

Well, people are seeing Wii is stores now. I don't know if it's due to a drop in demand, or an increase in shipments. But it seems it's finally leveling off again. Now all we have to do is wait for the big three to drop.

Originally Posted by Hcoregamer00

Personally what is more shocking to me is how England and Germany have accepted the wii since they are not traditional "Nintendo Friendly" nations.

Regarding Germany: Why do people keep saying that? NES and SNES were more popular than the Sega counterparts and sales of N64&GC were okay too, weren't they? That said, Germany is really casual oriented (see: success of Brain Training; anecdoctal evidence: none of my buddies has a ps2, but I know some girls who have one because of Singstar).

UK chart news is up.
spiderman 3 is 1
pirates; at worlds end is 2
Mario Strikers is 3.
Nintendo have the only none multi platform titles in the top ten.
with Mario (3) Wii play (6) and brain training (7). cooking mama is at 10

Originally Posted by djtiesto

France definitely has some good taste when it comes to games

France is always leading in discussions about art and new media.
Art scientist in France were the first who declared comics as an art, and they were the first who consider videogames as an art.


Remember?

Europe likes Cooking Mama, eh?

Weird. :D

Originally Posted by QVT

Considering I'd never really linked video games to the French at all(just doesn't seem to go with the culture) this is pretty high for the DS at least.

What he said ?

Originally Posted by bud

you know, there's a big nintendo sales thread...

Those big threads are completely and utterly useless. It's always an absolute handful of people checking them again, and no one new actually gets the news. Large threads are useful for the following:

Sports seasons (these are mostly opinion, so it works well)
A specific game (the Pokemon one has been invaluable for trades, etc.)
A specific movie
The picture thread

That's about it. Trying to consolidate NEWS in a single thread is pointless and looking at the post coutn is daunting.

Originally Posted by DefectiveReject

UK chart news is up.
spiderman 3 is 1
pirates; at worlds end is 2
Mario Strikers is 3.
Nintendo have the only none multi platform titles in the top ten.
with Mario (3) Wii play (6) and brain training (7). cooking mama is at 10

Cooking mama is a Third Party title :P

Originally Posted by Raist

What he said ?

I suppose he said he don't know that Ubi Soft and Rayman are french! :)


And since a few years Atari too :/

Originally Posted by Eteric Rice

Well, people are seeing Wii is stores now. I don't know if it's due to a drop in demand, or an increase in shipments. But it seems it's finally leveling off again. Now all we have to do is wait for the big three to drop.

Nintendo said they upped production, so I trust that it is finally hitting stores.

They better because I will be irritated if it is hard to find a wii once the good games are released (as in Super Smash Bros.)

Originally Posted by QVT

Considering I'd never really linked video games to the French at all(just doesn't seem to go with the culture) this is pretty high for the DS at least.

The problem there is American culture constantly painting a false picture of French culture. Is every American a fat McDonalds-chomping SUV-driving redneck?

Originally Posted by Paulokj

Cooking mama is a Third Party title :P

theres no such thing as third party titles selling on Nintendo systems.

There also seems to be a very nice Japanese import culture in France going back as far as the early 90's and the 16-bit era at least.

Much more so than where I live. (It basically completely sucks over here)
So yeah, overall the French gaming tastes are A-OK in my book. :)

If Wii really is at 40% of GC's lifetime sales it would pretty much boggle the mind.

Originally Posted by Masklinn

If only NoE could give us some damned blasted games now...

Buy Mario Strikers NOW! :p

Originally Posted by speculawyer

The problem there is American culture constantly painting a false picture of French culture. Is every American a fat McDonalds-chomping SUV-driving redneck?

The common stereotype of today would probably be a gun toting, war loving neo-con. Although people aound here do think most of the Americans are fat.

The Wii is over 50% of the GC in Japan, so being 40% in France doesn't seem like a stretch at all.

Originally Posted by speculawyer

The problem there is American culture constantly painting a false picture of French culture. Is every American a fat McDonalds-chomping SUV-driving redneck?

Quite frankly yes.

Incroyable.

Originally Posted by QVT

Considering I'd never really linked video games to the French at all(just doesn't seem to go with the culture) this is pretty high for the DS at least.

I think France is the 3rd largest videogame market in Europe behind the UK and Germany. Besides which - Infogrames/Atari, Vivendi, Ubisoft?

I can't believe how little gamecube sold... :(

Originally Posted by bgassassin

:lol :lol