Looking at how U.S.-based publishers often treat Germany, I often don't have this impression at all.
Looks like I got it wrong - it's actually the biggest (old) market. I found a nice article concerning the PC Games market in general. You might wanna check it out:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/07/20/develop-09-is-digital-distribution-the-pc-saviour/Quote: ...The PC market across the years went from 1.262 to 1.265 to 1.326 to 1.125 – which is a fifteen percent decline from its 2006. That’s enormously held up by the German market, which now makes up 41.3% of all PC sales...
Digital distribution has become the best way to sell PC games, since it's so much easier to get the version you want (if you're on broadband), no matter where you live. It also fixes the piracy problem.
Personally I've always prefered the old NA boxes. It was nice to have something for the shelves.
