Sales analysis company NPD Group has released some data on the Wii launch that'll have Mario blushing with pride - apparently Nintendo sold 55 percent of all video game systems in November in the US, a figure that takes in the debut of the new console plus the continued success of the DS. From the press release:
"In only the first seven days of availability after its Nov. 19 launch, Wii sold nearly half a million systems in the United States alone (as reported previously by Nintendo, total sales of Wii in the Americas reached 600,000 in its first eight days of availability). Despite spot shortages in some locations, well more than a million Wii systems will be available in the United States by the end of the year.
While Wii sold through at a rate of more than 70,000 a day for the seven days represented in the data (substantially higher than any other game device), November's two top sellers of any type were the Nintendo DS, at almost 920,000 units, and Game Boy® Advance, with nearly 642,000 portables sold. With Wii and Nintendo GameCube(TM) totals included, Nintendo sold through more than 2.1 million of the 3.9 million systems purchased for the month."
Sorry, you're probably getting bored of all these sales reports. However, this might interest you - despite the fact that Wii Sports and Wii Play come free with the console and additional controller, customers have apparently been purchasing, on average, two extra games along with their hardware. That's quite a ratio.
Nintendo, eh? A few years ago this didn't really seem possible, did it?
