Having an affordable games consoles that doesn't want to own your sitting room's 'entertainment experience' looks to have paid off for Nintendo and the Wii in the US in December.
Sales of the console - which is has recently been suffering from a surfeit of negative press in terms of its lifespan - were actually up in North America last month: three million units were sold compared to 2.14 million units the previous year.
Yes, there was also a price cut on the Wii, so actual profits being taken could have been down.
However, share price was up. This lead Nintendo president Satoru Iwata to state that, "I think it’s now safe to say the Wii has recovered from slowdown."
Sales of the console - which is has recently been suffering from a surfeit of negative press in terms of its lifespan - were actually up in North America last month: three million units were sold compared to 2.14 million units the previous year.
Yes, there was also a price cut on the Wii, so actual profits being taken could have been down.
However, share price was up. This lead Nintendo president Satoru Iwata to state that, "I think it’s now safe to say the Wii has recovered from slowdown."
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