Is Nintendo really not welcome in the UK? - General Discussion Forum

NintendoGamerGuy · 2021-03-23T14:45:57+00:00

I've also posted this on reddit, and am posting it here just to get a bigger picture of Nintendo's reputation here. Here in the UK, I am here, a HUGE Nintendo fan, and have owned every console from the NES in my younger years, and have started with gaming again. The amount of enthusiasm for their products I'm seeing in the country I'm based in is a bit disappointing to say the least. Are we the most biggest most underappreciated country for Nintendo here? I'm very underwhelmed, actually.

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Buizel
Thu 25th Mar 2021

@Haywired According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles_by_region), it was Mega Drive's 2.1 million to SNES's 1.7 million - so yeah, pretty close.

At least 2'8".

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Haywired
Thu 25th Mar 2021

@timleon
Thanks. I'm not sure how accurate the dates are, but interestingly, it seems to say that the 1.7 million SNES number is taken from March 95, and given that the SNES would still have another two full years on the market as Nintendo's home console before the N64 would release in the UK, that's probably not the final number. There's no citation for the 2.1 million as being the Mega Drive's final number (it just says it's from 2008, which would suggest that it most definitely it is, though 2008 seems a bit random). That whole list is quite bizarre. It says the PS2 only sold 1 million in the UK, but it's based on a figure from 2001... I'm guessing the people moderating this page haven't been paying too much attention to it.

Haywired

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