Thursday, January 11, 2007

Nintendo Kicked Some Ass.

Wow, just look at these figures from the sales over the holidays while I droll over playing Burnout: Revenge and Gears of War.
* Consumers purchased every Wii console available at retail -- more than a million in just the 44 days between U.S. launch and year end.

* With sales of another 1.6 million systems in December alone, Nintendo DS achieved full year sell-through of 5.3 million.

* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was purchased by an extraordinary 86 percent of Wii buyers, or more than 900,000 games for that system alone. Coupled with the companion version released in December for Nintendo GameCube(TM), the two versions of the newest Zelda title totaled approximately 1.5 million unit sales in less than seven weeks, which would represent one of the five best-selling games for the entire year.

* Wii owners also purchased an average of three additional games from a wide library of choices, in addition to the Wii Sports title packed in with every hardware system.

* Two Nintendo DS titles, New Super Mario Bros.® and Brain Age(TM)Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, also were top-10 sellers for the year.

* Throughout the November/December holiday shopping period, Nintendo accounted for more than half of all video game hardware systems sold in America.

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