The latest sales figures from the NPD Group in the States confirm that November belonged to Nintendo, with the company having sold 55 percent of all video game systems through the month in North America.
Wii sold 600,000 systems in the United States alone in its first eight days of availability and more than a million Wii systems will be available in the United States by the end of the year.
The NPD figures also confirm that November’s two top sellers of any type were the Nintendo DS (920,000 units) and Game Boy Advance (642,000 portables sold), meaning that Nintendo sold through more than 2.1 million of the 3.9 million systems purchased for the month.
Finally, despite the bundling in of Wii Sports in the box, Wii buyers in the USA also purchased an average of two additional games, compared to approximately one game per system for the installed bases of the 360 or the PS3.
Wii sold 600,000 systems in the United States alone in its first eight days of availability and more than a million Wii systems will be available in the United States by the end of the year.
The NPD figures also confirm that November’s two top sellers of any type were the Nintendo DS (920,000 units) and Game Boy Advance (642,000 portables sold), meaning that Nintendo sold through more than 2.1 million of the 3.9 million systems purchased for the month.
Finally, despite the bundling in of Wii Sports in the box, Wii buyers in the USA also purchased an average of two additional games, compared to approximately one game per system for the installed bases of the 360 or the PS3.
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TwoADay 8 Dec 2006 22:53
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lord, I still find it hard to believe these numbers, since they're nowhere to be found in Nashville. I went out last Sunday to wait for an EB games to open, and met a family that had been up since 3 AM and had been travelling around our county looking for one - and for those that wonder, the EB games didn't have any.
Hopefully they'll start pouring in soon - the wife and I decided to have it be our Christmas present to each other. I was able to find a controller and nunchuck at one store at least, so when we do find a system, we can both play...out of probably close to 25 visits to stores (9 different ones, so some of these are multiple visits) I've found the wiimote and nunchuck once. ONCE! Nintendo really scored with this one.
Hopefully they'll start pouring in soon - the wife and I decided to have it be our Christmas present to each other. I was able to find a controller and nunchuck at one store at least, so when we do find a system, we can both play...out of probably close to 25 visits to stores (9 different ones, so some of these are multiple visits) I've found the wiimote and nunchuck once. ONCE! Nintendo really scored with this one.