The BIU awards are LTD sales, the numbers published by Nintendo are 2011-only.
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Nintendo reveals German sales numbers [Market leader in 2011]
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The BIU awards are LTD sales, the numbers published by Nintendo are 2011-only.
No it really wasn't. We'll get a concrete number tomorrow, but here's what Nintendo said about it in their quarterly release:
Caesar III
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Risk Breaker
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Hmmm I don't see much Nintendo dominance (if at all) in that list? The market seems pretty balanced.
Don't see Wii Fit Plus though... shouldn't it be over 300K?
Sho_Nuff82
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Why on Earth are the Germans still buying Wiis?
ShellyDeKiller
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Rush2thestart
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Yeah doubt its bad as whats been being pushed in all the European sales topics.
Yes, it is multi-region. If you want more information, just send a PM
I'll talk to a friend of mine to see if he can get me the game. If I need more details I'll send you a PM, thanks! ;D
Yep and it's been confusing it seems. I'll edit my post.
The link I've posted are LTD (cumulative sales).
See the answer above. Maybe (just an example) Wii Fit Plus sold 600.000 until January 2011 and then another 300.000 for all 2011, making 900.000 total (so it doesn't appear in the link I've posted). Is that clear now?
User33 said:
Wow... hahaha
CadetMahoney
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I certainly don't care about German sales, but it's interesting to see 3DS is doing well compared to expectations.
I need to correct myself, the award is indeed only given if sales hit a certain milestone within 12 months. I don't know what happened there.
Fitness & party titles. Kinect/360 is a pretty non-thing in Germany.
It's not entirely clear in this case. In the paragraph they start with 3DS numbers, then they go on with how much 3DS and DS sold together in 2011, and then they say what the installed base of the DS family is. If they exclude the 3DS, the DS must have sold around a 1.1 million in Q4 2011.
Concerning PC gaming:
PC games accounted for around 40% of software revenue in 2006, since then it's around 25-30%.
This is the dumbest post in the entire thread, and it's terribly ignorant, too. Launch aligned, the 3DS equals GBA as the fastest selling system in history at this point. (Despite the slow start!) How is that unimpressive?
hey you're not amir0x
Haunted
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It has a pretty good library at this point.
if you find german sales so unimportant why did you click on a topic regarding german sales?
not really sure how the vita factors into any of this either...
No it still doesn't make any sense. If it's 900K LTD, shouldn't it be listed in 500K+ category?
Someone seems upset over nothing at all :/
Because of the strong yen they probably lost money on most of those sales. At least on hardware.
Sohter.Nura
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Isn't germany pc-land for a lot of gamers?
I could see the XBOX 360 and PS3 having a hard time cracking a pc-hardcore country
I could see the XBOX 360 and PS3 having a hard time cracking a pc-hardcore country
MrNyarlathotep
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It didn't cross 500k in 2011 and applied for and received an award, which is what that list is showing.
Shocking secret: Quite a bunch of people in GAF are from Germany. And many are posting in this very thread.
Sure they can.
Nintendo Warns Losses Will Mount
TOKYO—Grappling with a sluggish debut for its new hand-held game system and petering demand for its flagship home console, Nintendo Co. swung to a loss for the first nine months of its fiscal year and scaled back sales forecasts for its 3DS portable system and Wii.
The Kyoto-based videogame maker also offered an even bleaker outlook for its full-year earnings for the year to March, saying Thursday that net losses will be three times greater than its projections in October as valuation losses on foreign-currency holdings from the strong yen continued to swell.
The loss comes as Nintendo is replacing aging videogame machines with new ones, while trying to cope with the technological change in the industry, specifically smartphones and tablet computers offering simple-to-play games at a fraction of the price of games available on dedicated game machines such as the 3DS.
For the full-year ending March, Nintendo expects a net loss of ¥65 billion on revenue of ¥660 billion. It had been projecting a loss of ¥20 billion yen on revenue of ¥790 billion.
That was a stupid post, but they did have to reduce the sales forecasts despite having cut the price 40%.
It's a matter of perspective. Running a marathon in 2:30 is to me very impressive, but it wouldn't crack the top 50 in Berlin. If Patrick Makau runs a 2:30 it's unimpressive.
Nintendo expects to sell 14M 3DS this year, which is impressive. Nintendo's original plan this year was to do ~$4B in 3DS hardware revenue. That's been lowered to ~$3.5B. Software revenue is even worse. Compared to Nintendo's expectations, 3DS sales are unimpressive.
Rush2thestart
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Skyward Sword was at 3.4 million units in Nintendos million seller list. Yeah... bad lol
Your analogy is flawed since the 3DS just broke the record. The proper way to do that analogy would be Patrick Makau running in 1:59 while aiming for 1:45 or something. I would still consider that impressive.
Furthermore, the fact that it had quite a slow start makes the most recent sales even moreso.