REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nintendos 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 Americas 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.
While the numbers come from VGchartz, the PS3 did around 400 K units sold during Black Friday, which should put it in third place.
While the numbers come from VGchartz, the PS3 did around 400 K units sold during Black Friday, which should put it in third place.
Shame on you staff member for using unverifiable info from a known(& proven) to be unreliable source.
While the numbers come from VGchartz, the PS3 did around 400 K units sold during Black Friday, which should put it in third place.
Shame on you staff member for using unverifiable info from a known(& proven) to be unreliable source.
Hence why I said that the only numbers I have come from VGchartz, meaning that they are not reliable and should be taken with a grain of salt.
SCEA comms boss Patrick Seybold’s confirmed 440,000 US PS3 sales for the week ending November 29. Big beans.
“The 2009 holiday season got off to an amazing start for PlayStation, with all key retailers showing a significant increase for PS3, PSP and key holiday titles over Black Friday and the holiday weekend,” said the exec in an emailed statement.
“PlayStation 3 demand was at an all time high with the system selling more than 440,000 units for the week ending 11/29/09.”
According to Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg, “biggest sales week of the year” good.
“Great #BlackFriday results just in, biggest sales week of the year for #Xbox360, more than 2xs previous week sales,” he tweeted.
So is Microsoft going to give us a real number?
My assumption is they did less than 440K, a.k.a. MICROSOFT IS TEH DOOMED
Nintendo Wii U.S. Sales (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajk4M7AGvqLM&pos=6)Slump in Thanksgiving Week
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co.’s U.S. sales of its flagship Wii console during Thanksgiving week tumbled after a 20 percent price reduction for the device failed to spur demand.
The company sold more than 550,000 Wii machines in the week ended Nov. 28, the world’s largest maker of video-game players said in a statement yesterday. That’s about 30 percent fewer than the almost 800,000 consoles Nintendo sold in the year- earlier period.
“These are weak numbers,” said Etsuko Tamura, a Tokyo- based analyst at Mizuho Investors Securities Co., which rates the stock “outperform.” “Wii sales are slumping.” Yasuhiro Minagawa, a spokesman at Kyoto-based Nintendo, today confirmed the Wii’s sales figure for the year-earlier period.
Nintendo shares fell as much as 2.7 percent in Osaka trading as the company failed to mirror PlayStation 3 maker Sony Corp. in reviving demand through price cuts. In October, Nintendo slashed its annual Wii-shipment forecast 23 percent after sales during the fiscal first half were less than a quarter of the previous full-year goal. The company also reduced the console’s price to $200 from $250.
Report: Nintendo Scaling Back Wii Production (http://kotaku.com/5416686/report-nintendo-scaling-back-wii-production)
According to a report from Nikkei, Nintendo has begun the process of reducing the number of Wiis being manufactured.
The report says that two Japanese companies - Mitsumi and Hosiden - are facing massive losses in revenue this year due to the "declining fortunes" of the Wii and a "drop-off in orders from Nintendo to assemble game systems".
Both companies are now staring at a drop in net profits of more than 50%.
It's funny. It took Nintendo years to ramp up Wii production. They sure cut it back quick enough.
As Nintendo's Wii Stumbles, Parts Suppliers' Earnings Tumble (http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/e/ac/tnks/Nni20091202D01JFF03.htm) [Nikkei, subscription required]
Nintendo hasn't forgotten gamers.
