Nintendo to battle Sony over Romanian market

Far behind Sony on the Romanian gaming console market last year, Nintendo has expanded its partnership with Best Distribution in order to conquer this territory. As of this month, all Best Computers stores will carry the entire range of Nintendo consoles (GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP) and all the matching accessories: memory cards, controllers, cases, cables and adapters. The same stores will also offer the latest games for the Nintendo platforms. The console market in Romania is thought to have reached 1 million euros last year. The market leader is Sony, far ahead of its competitors, which sold 5,000 (PlayStation and PlayStation 2) consoles out of the 6,000 total. The remaining 1,000 consoles were Nintendo models. Microsoft, which managed to overtake sales of the PlayStation 2 in April, thus becoming world’s number one, has made no decision about introducing its Xbox onto the Romanian market yet. ZF