Nintendo Wii - Top of the Sales in Japan

While Sony and Microsoft and their respective fanboys continue to make rude noises at each regarding just how second placed they are to Nintendo, the Wii and DS continue to clock up sales hand-over-fist. Or rather foot-over-foot as customers in Japan do warm-up exercises on the Wii Fitness balance board.

This week's news via Japanese magazine publisher, Enterbrain, is that the Wii sold 479,931 units of the Wii in the four weeks to January 27th 2007. This is compared with 165,719 units of the Sony PlayStation 3.
Microsoft sold 27,044 XBox 360s in the same period.

This put the Wii on top of the homeland hardware charts for the second month running.

More good news for Ninty is that Wii Fit reached sales 1.21 million units in the nine weeks since its release. This compares to 908,000 units of Wii Sports in the same opening period.

The Wii was the top-selling console in Japan for the second straight month, it said. It was also pointed out that these figures were compiled before the January 31 launch of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which the publisher called "promising".

Promising?! We bloody hope so.

^{Info: Reuters}