Topic: Nintendo Continues to Dominate the Sales Charts

[NWR_MattB]

Nintendo continues to see huge sales in North America in the new year.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=21150

 January is generally considered a slow month in terms of sales, but Nintendo has once again managed to prove that they can continue to see huge numbers even in the new year.    

In an unsurprising turn of events, New Super Mario Bros. Wii continues its run in the top spot for another month, while titles such as Wii Fit Plus, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Sports Resort continue to show off their great legs.      

Nintendo isnÂ’t the only developer seeing big sales on Wii. Ubisoft launched Just Dance in December, and it has already turned out to be a surprise hit. Last month the game managed to crack the top 20, but this month it breaks into the top 10 with sales just short of 200,000 units.    

On the hardware front, Wii continues to be the top seller with the Nintendo DS following closely behind, with sales of 465.8k and 422.2k, respectively.      

The hardware sales for the month were as follows:    

1.  Wii 465.8K
   

2.  Nintendo DS 422.2K
   

3.  Xbox 360 332.8K
   

4.  PlayStation 3 276.9K
   

5.  PSP 100.1K
   

6.  PlayStation 2 41.6K
  The top 10 broke down as follows:   1.  New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, Nintendo of America) Nov-09 656.7K
   

2.  Mass Effect 2 (360, Electronic Arts) Jan-10 572.1K
   

3.  Wii Fit Plus w/Balance Board (Wii, Nintendo of America) Oct-09 555.7K
   

4.  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360, Activision Blizzard) Nov-09 326.7K
   

5.  Mario Kart w/Wheel (Wii, Nintendo of America) Apr-08 310.9K
   

6.  Wii Sports Resort w/Wii MotionPlus (Wii, Nintendo of America) Jul-09
297.6K    

7.  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3, Activision Blizzard) Nov-09 259.0K
   

8.  Army of Two: The 40th Day (360, Electronic Arts) Jan-10 246.5K
   

9.  Just Dance (Wii, Ubisoft) Nov-09 191.9K
   

10.  Darksiders (360, THQ) Jan-10 171.2k

[Mop it up]

I was almost expecting the headline to read something along the lines of "Reggie lost his bet! He's running amok in the streets and punting everyone in sight! Run for your lives!"

[BranDonk Kong]

I think the Wii would have actually sold much better, but it's out of stock in a lot of places because of December's fucking epic sales.

[Kairon]

I thought we were done with hardware shortages?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Nope. Nintendo has under estimated demand of Wii and NSMBW.
They both have consumers on a waiting list. So everyone better take a number.

[Chozo Ghost]

I think even Nintendo had thought demand for the Wii would be slackening. Apparently consumers didn't get the memo...

[Mop it up]

It's probably better to sell out than to have excess stock.

[UltimatePartyBear]

It's probably better to have stock to sell than to run out, actually.  If you do build up an unhealthy amount of overstock, you can simply adjust for it in future production.  Selling out means losing sales.

[KDR_11k]

Overstock costs storage space.

[UltimatePartyBear]

It depends on whether "excess stock" means "any leftover units at all" or "such an excess that storage costs become an issue," I suppose.  I took it to mean the former.

[Plugabugz]

It's always good to have a little excess stock, maybe a % more.

But Nintendo being Japanese and all will probably like the "just in time" way of producing to exactly whats needed and any leftovers to them is bad and someone probably got the smack for it.