Wii Not Off to a Great Start in Korea
By Chris on Sunday, May 25th, 2008 at 8:24 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Nintendo, Nintendo
Nintendo and the Wii are owning virtually every region in the world, but in its first month of availability, the waggle-happy console isn’t off to a great start. Korean site GameShot.net (via Kotaku) reports that the system didn’t even sell through its initial shipment of 50,000 systems; it managed to push only 35,000 systems.
A copy of Wii Sports was sold with nearly every system, selling 30,000 units. The next best sellers were Zack & Wiki and Swing Golf Pangya, both of which sold 8,000 units, and then FIFA at 2,000. Clearly, the lack of a Starcraft Wii game on the horizon has meant there’s not much of a demand for the console.
That sounds silly, but it’s honestly the only reason I can come up with.
maybe when they port Starcraft to the Wii…
i know, that was mean… my bad.
Whats starcrafts min. requirements anyways? P4 233Ghz w/ 256MB RAM?
P4 233 Ghz? P2, at max, 256 HD, RAM combined, maybe.
I’d have to look it up, but it’d definitely run on a Wii. Maybe Wiine (Wine for Wii, logically). Yes, you can whine about the pun.
The StarCraft references are valid. Koreans are fucking morons. Idiots of the Asian world. North = insanity, oppression. (Kim J.) South = insanity, oppression (They’re STILL playing StarCraft? REALLY? And it’s the only fucking game they play? Christ, those are the worst kind of chinks. “HERO? U PRAY STALCLAFT??? ME NO RIKE UUU!!” )
Let’s talk about it. RayB682@yahoo.com
They wont buy a home console if you cant pirate games for it. Simple fact.
The fact is, the Koreans still hate Japan. After getting attacked and occupied in WWII, suffering innumerable atrocities. Nintendo is a Japanese company, and thus aren’t liked that well. That’s one of the reasons PC games do so well over there, well, that and the hilarious amounts of piracy. So yeah, there Is a reason.
@ Xel
Koreans generally do still dislike Japan but they still lap up Japanese products and style.
BTW Japan occupied Korea in 1910. WW2 started in the late 1930’s.
Beat to the Starcraft joke! Dang it! It’s the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this article, too.
Norbit hit the nail on the head with his first comment.