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Wii not doing so well in Korea
Posted on Monday, 2 June 2008 by Speed, source: Korea Times
As the title suggest, Nintendo's white console isn't doing so fantastic in Korea. In the month after launch - being April 26th - only between 35 and 40.000 units have been sold. A lot below the expected results.
Such a performance is disappointing for Nintendo, considering the firm has sold about 25 million Wiis globally. It is also far short of the popularity of Nintendo DS, the portable game player which was released by Nintendo early last year and sold more than 1 million here.
Gamers on the scene blame the region limiting which makes the offering of games abysmall compared to the rest of the world."Hard-core gamers don't like to buy Wii because the Korean version can only play Korean version software titles, which so far are few,'' said Jang Jae-heung, a 30-year-old gamer. ``Many want to play popular Japanese titles. This is important because it is hard-core gamers who lead the gaming market trend."
Despite these disappointing results the console does do quite well compared to the competition. Only 150.000 Xbox360s were sold in the first two years after release, and Sony's PS3 didn't do much better with 50.000 units in its first year.In other news:
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