Silly Season: Nintendo's "Field Research" Creates Mii Population Explosion

Nintendo's PR chaps - Bell Pottinger - have sent out some figures that will surely convince people to buy Wiis and 3DSs and not iPhones and iPads and other competing products. Are you ready to be convinced?

We are seriously told that, "research from Nintendo of Europe has revealed that the total number of Mii characters created by players across Europe on Wii now exceeds 73.2million* – more than the populations of France, the United Kingdom and Italy or more than Spain and The Netherlands combined."

Yes indeed. That * indicates that, "*Figure (are) based on Nintendo data which was gathered in the field investigations in six European countries; France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, UK."

Field investigations? Apparently so.

There are more fabulous numbers for you:

- The "global Mii population" (they're not really people!) "is a staggering 213.8 million."
- If all the Mii characters were to form a country it would have the fifth largest population in the world and would sit above Brazil, Nigeria and Pakistan."
- Europe’s Mii population is split almost equally between the genders – 37.2 million male versus 36.1 million female characters.
- Despite that 'almost equal' split, females are the predominant Mii gender.
- The UK, Spain and the Netherlands have a greater number of female than male Mii characters, at 51%, 52% and 51% females respectively.

Finally, we've just heard that Standard and Poor has already downgraded the Mii Nations previous AAA credit rating...

Source: Nintendo