Sounds good, but we need to compare this to the sales figures for the competition. The PS3 with its price drop and heavy advertising must have done reasonably well too. Hopefully Nintendo is still #1.

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.

TMZ has confirmed these numbers.

It was more about how you worded the sentence, like the numbers were fact.
But now we have real estimates from Sony

and something from MS too.

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

Sony had their best sales week ever, at 440,000 units.  Coming off a price drop and a redesigned system. Best Buy and Walmart (two of the largest retailers) also had pretty awesome exclusive bundles that had $100+ worth of goodies in them.

Meanwhile, the Wii *STILL* outsold the PS3.

Should be interesting to see next week's sales. ;)

No your wrong. NINTENDO IS TEH DOOMED!!!!!

Leave it to the morons that call themselves "analysts" to always be negative. They are the same way with stocks. The Wii still easily beat the competition, but analysts are upset because Wii didn't break the Thanksgiving sales record again.

The last comment is especially annoying, the Wii wasn't on life support like the PS3 was (especially here in the US, where the PS3 was outsold several times by the 9 year old PS2).

the NPD in 2 week should be interesting for November. I am curious how much mario sold

The price cut and the black holiday helped boost the Wiis sales, but the problem of the Wii lacking a diverse library of games still remains. Traditional gamers are more likely to pick up a PS3 or 360 because those systems have stuff other than Wii Fit and Wii Sports.

Nintendo needs to realize the problem and solve it or else this time next year they are going to be in even worse shape. Where are the games?!

Wait til E3

E3!!? I'm hoping they step up their game by GDC in January.

We're working on it.

At this rate, Nintendo won't even be around in January to have a presence at GDC.


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

It isn't too late for Nintendo to turn things around. I just don't understand what they've been doing. Have they just been raking money in and hoarding it? All they money should have went towards game development to ensure the Wii has a healthy and diverse library. So far all we see is non-game crap...

Nintendo hasn't forgotten gamers.

....Just the games that make them happy.