Nintendo Brain Training, bestseller in Europe

From a recent article:

Brain Train­ing dom­i­nates ’08 Euro sales (CVG Online)

- “Over­all, four of the ten best­selling DS games in both coun­tries dur­ing the first six months of 2008 were in the brain train­ing genre.”

- “Accord­ing to data released by sales mon­i­tor Media Con­trol GfK Inter­na­tion­al, the DS’s heavy­weight sta­tus in the Euro­pean con­sole mar­ket is close­ly tied to the pop­u­lar­i­ty of Nin­ten­do’s Brain Train­ing series and oth­er brain train­ing titles.”

- “The biggest demand for brain games is in Ger­many and Hol­land”, the com­pa­ny said. More Brain Train­ing was the best­selling title in Ger­many dur­ing the first six months of the year, while Brain Train­ing topped the Dutch chart dur­ing the same period.

Fas­ci­nat­ing. Will brain-train­ing-induced employ­ee-pro­duc­tiv­i­ty-increase help turn around the loom­ing reces­sion? we’ll track close­ly the per­for­mance of Ger­man and Dutch economies!