Sales | Nintendo GameCube Ahead in Germany!

Believe it or not the GameCube took a plentiful share of 26% in the country where Nintendo usually struggles during the period of June, which means it overtook the surging Microsoft XBOX. In addition to this, and even more pleasing, is that 52% of the software sold in Germany during Q1 and Q2 of 2004 belonged to Nintendo!

Since launching in Germany, the GC has only sold 600,000 units, but thankfully 100,000 of those were actually sold in the first half of this year! The reason behind this is speculated upon by Dr. Bernd Fakesch, the General Manager of Nintendo Germany, with him reckoning that the upturn is due to familiar franchises such as Mario and Zelda retaining their strong popularity.

Now if only Nintendo could sort out the situation in the UK...