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What's The Biggest-Selling Game In Europe This Year?
Posted by Luke Plunkett at 9:30 PM on August 12, 2008
Fans of our British sales charts will have some knowledge of the selling power of the Brain Training games, but really, they've only got part of the picture. They don't know how well it's been selling on the continent, and on the continent, it's been selling like hotcakes hot crepes. According to chart trackers GfK, over the first six months of 2008, the original Brain Training was the top-selling game in Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands. Germany's top-selling game over the same period was the sequel, More Brain Training. Spain's #1 was Brain Training, while it's #2 was...More Brain Training. Just so you know, the first Brain Training was released over two years ago, while in Europe, even the sequel's been out for over a year. Egads.
Brain Training dominates 2008 in Europe [GI.biz]
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GMC
Posted 10:20 PM 12/8/08
@Meldy: I had to log on just to say: awesome post.
GMC
excel_excel
Posted 10:12 PM 12/8/08
we train with DS but no smarter we become....
excel_excel
Awoken
Posted 10:12 PM 12/8/08
natural male brain enhancement. If you experience brain activity for more than 4 hours please contact your doctor.
Awoken
Nirolak
Posted 10:10 PM 12/8/08
Europe must have the fastest Sudoku Completion per Capita rate on the planet.
Nirolak
LionheartAce
Posted 10:10 PM 12/8/08
@Vidunder: and smelly.
LionheartAce
Vidunder
Posted 10:03 PM 12/8/08
We'll all become drones and Europe will be renamed "Japan 2" from 2011 on.
They'll build EuroTokyo in place of London and Italy'll become a huge holiday resort. Also, they'll convert France's vineyard to rice fields (for sake).
They'll also destroy Holland for being immoral and sinful.
Vidunder
LionheartAce
Posted 9:59 PM 12/8/08
... and all that money Kawashima refuses to accept. Wow.
LionheartAce
The_nub_next_door
Posted 9:53 PM 12/8/08
I would like to "boink" that smug of his face, grr.
The_nub_next_door
cdammers
Posted 9:52 PM 12/8/08
I wonder how much of its success is down to the Sudoku part. It's hugely popular here.
cdammers
Fabrice
Posted 9:50 PM 12/8/08
Brain training is still being regularly advertised on UK TV.
Fabrice
AlbenoEpiX
Posted 9:48 PM 12/8/08
What about Mario Kart?!?!
AlbenoEpiX
Meldy
Posted 9:38 PM 12/8/08
But we no smarter. Something wrong this.
Meldy
Naryoril
Posted 10:32 PM 12/8/08
@Vidunder: At least we wouldn't have to wait several months for our games then and we could get em for half the price :D
Naryoril
Mr.Monkey
Posted 10:29 PM 12/8/08
Shame zombie brain training wasn't as popular...
"Braaaaains Braaaains"
"your zombie age is 21"
Ahh well least Mario & Sonic @ the olympics didn't hit the topspot
*shudder*
Mr.Monkey
RawSteelUT
Posted 11:10 PM 12/8/08
Well, the problem with "Europe" is that it's a far more difficult market to gauge. Really, unless we can get country-by-country tallies, talking about the biggest selling game in "Europe" is pointless, since the region is a hell of a lot more diverse than North America or Japan.
RawSteelUT
CrazyBlue
Posted 11:39 PM 12/8/08
Well at least it's not just the UK then... Unfortuantly there is even a copy of it in the house...
CrazyBlue
KenogaBrave
Posted 11:28 PM 12/8/08
The synapses are firing!
KenogaBrave
supremesonic
Posted 11:25 PM 12/8/08
Doesn't surprise me. The way they advertise it on TV (Seriously, the Brain Training ads never stop!) and the way the UK and other European countries seem to be becoming the ultimate casual gaming market, I would of been kind of surprised if it wasn't.
supremesonic
Tycoonalex1337
Posted 11:50 PM 12/8/08
It's always on front display at every store I go to, and HMV's have it in the window display all the time.
Tycoonalex1337
coalhalo
Posted 11:49 PM 12/8/08
Further proof of just how big the "casual" gamer market is, and a good example of Nintendo's target audience.
Nintendo said they are no longer competing against Sony and MS in the "bloody red oceans", but are in their own little "Blue Ocean". And since they are not competing with the other guys, they just keep on winning.
coalhalo
NeoAkira
Posted 1:02 AM 13/8/08
@coalhalo:
Well, you've kind of simplified it; I don't think it's that simple.
On the surface, to us gaming enthusiasts, it may look like "hey Nintendo is advertising the casual crap mostly so they are not competing with Sony or MS", but from most consumer's point of view there is no hardcore/casual. No real divide between any of the games or systems. There's simply the cheapest (Wii), the mid-priced (360), and the most expensive (technically the PS3). So to the consumers who Nintendo has so skillfully catered to, they are giving away their money to Nintendo rather than MS or Sony. So they are in fact competing.
NeoAkira
DelSource
Posted 12:44 AM 13/8/08
@Meldy: I wish we had a "rate up" button.....
DelSource
Technogamer1992
Posted 11:00 PM 12/8/08
Does this count for all the times the games been sold unknowingly as a pack-in?? becaue me and my sister both bought new ds lites in the past month, and we both got a new copy of brain training in the box of the ds lite.. there wasnt any stickers to indicate this occurance,, so are nintendo just packing these in to get the sales figures??
Technogamer1992
Isharik
Posted 5:53 PM 13/8/08
This guy reminds me of the MCP from Tron.
Maybe its nefarious plan to propagate itself throughout Europe before turning on the human masters is coming to fruition...
Isharik