Comments on: Nintendo fails Korean market

By: dr.mario

dr.mario — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:00:52 +0000

They already have hacked Wiis for sale in Yongsan, they’ve been there for a long time. Also there are easier ways to hack your own now which are readily available.

Localization is a huge issue. The average Korean person does not want to play a game in Japanese, for various reasons. However, Japanese > Korean translators are readily available, and that process is actually less complicated than putting a game in English.

Starcraft II with great motion controls and great online multiplayer. Done deal.

By: wiizy

wiizy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:04:31 +0000

thats nonsense.. wii is almost tops in the korean market off that one month. and it will be in the next two months.. there are wii shortages and nintendo is being smart, asian markets are copying and creating their own wii’s .

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Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:40:32 +0000

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By: EdEN

EdEN — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:15:48 +0000

Nintendo sold in one month 1/3 of the total LTD 360 sales and the same as the PS3 has sold LTD during the past TWELVE MONTHS. If Wii sells the same for 3 more months it will easily pass the 360 and make the gap between Wii and PS3 pretty much definitive.

By: DonWii

DonWii — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:46:31 +0000

Oh COME ON! I keep seeing the story posted as a negative. Sure, Nintendo didn’t sell through their entire 50k Wiis in its FIRST MONTH, but…

“Despite such disappointments, Wii is still outperforming its rivals, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation3. About 150,000 Xbox 360s were sold in its first two years while 50,000 PlayStation3 were sold in its first year, local game magazines estimate”.

It isn’t as if they are doing horribly.
Let us see how much of a bigger impact they are making one year from now.

By: KillerHeroes

KillerHeroes — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:21:23 +0000

Too little too late I guess.

By: gametaku

gametaku — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:20:38 +0000

Hey Joltman, stereotype or not, let it flow , Wii need Starcraft Wii. Well anyway I want it, now that I’m thinking about it.

By: gametaku

gametaku — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:19:10 +0000

Hmm…I’m calling this the Microsoft effect. It’s the effect Microsoft experiences when trying to sell in japan, only instead of using a porn star they used a different celebrity, but it still wasn’t good enough. (improper name, but I like it)

If it really is the region lock or lack of good games, Nintendo should just flood them with the nuke that is every first party game they’ve released along with the other top quality Wii games released in Japan.

By: Joltman

Joltman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:03:53 +0000

@Run line 10:
Bad typing, bad idea.
Also a tad bit stereotypical, aren’t we?

By: Run line 10

Run line 10 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:57:56 +0000

Star scraft for the Wii problem solved!