Enacted in late September, the Wii saw a 50 dollar price cut, lowering its price point to 200 dollars. It came after Wii sales grew relatively stagnant throughout 2009, with September being the first time in three years that the Wii was not the top-selling console - thanks to Sony's own PlayStation 3 price cut.
However, sales increased in October, again making the Wii the top-selling console that month.
NINTENDO SELLS MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION HARDWARE UNITS DURING CRITICAL THANKSGIVING WEEK
More than 2.5 Video Game Systems Sold Every Second during Week as Value-Minded Holiday Shoppers Look to Nintendo
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 30, 2009 – Nintendo's internal tracking numbers show that the company sold more than 1.5 million Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ video game systems combined in the United States during Thanksgiving Week. That works out to more than 150 Nintendo systems sold every minute continuously for the week – or more than 2.5 every second.
Nintendo estimates that during the week:
* more than 550,000 Wii home consoles sold, demonstrating that consumers nationwide have responded to the new suggested retail price of $199.99.
* more than 1 million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi portable systems sold. This number surpasses the all-time hand-held hardware sales record set by Game Boy™ Advance during Thanksgiving Week 2002.
"Holiday shoppers are finding value in our products' prices, and through a game-play experience that is unique to Nintendo," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.
Note that the internal Nintendo of America numbers referenced in this release represent sales from Sunday, Nov. 22, through Saturday, Nov. 28.
For more information about Nintendo games and systems, visit www.nintendo.com (http://www.nintendo.com/).
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.2 billion video games and more than 535 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.nintendo.com (http://www.nintendo.com/).
I saw a woman with two kids who was buying two Wii systems, and I can't help but think she was buying one for each of her children rather than teaching them how to share...
I saw a woman with two kids who was buying two Wii systems, and I can't help but think she was buying one for each of her children rather than teaching them how to share...or maybe she is dumb, and just sees it as getting them something they want, without even realizing kids would be fine with just one. Then again my older brother never shared, my mom bought US one NES, but he would never let me play. He was also the only one who asked for games. Later I got an n64, and it was all mine, he couldnt boss me around on it. He got to have his Sega Saturn :D HAHHAHA
