Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton has revealed the impressive Worldwide, European and UK sales of the Wii and DS. He said that, "We've sold close to 438,000 Wii's in the UK in five months. It's really hard to have targets – we have seen unprecedented demand." It seems the scale of the results are a surprise even to Nintendo with the targets they set originally having to be "re-assessed all the time".
Here are the full results:
DS:
Global: 40m
Euro: 11m
UK: 3.1m
Wii:
Global: 5.84m
Euro: 1.3m
UK: 438,000
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
that's a lot of stoopid kids. Impressive. Wii is like the pied - piper of nifty - controller - geeks. I wonder if they all know they're marching to 3rd party oblivion?
Cheers =]
there are 5.84 million people who have no games to play except zelda, smash bros, mario, metroid and smash bros. poor guys. u'll get a few more games in 3 years we hope >:D.
same for sony, but they're getting over 10 amazing games this year and more in 2008. but i'll have all consoles and enjoy all the great games
there seems to be a lot of great exclusive 3rd party coming for the Wii, it is just that a lot of it is just being announced now, even though it is over 50% done. As for the PS3, I can't think of any exclusives this year worth buying except for Lair, so they would be the company I would be most worried about, especially considering their lackluster install base.
well you should see alot of wii sales anyways sinced it nearly launched a couple of months back. But DS, good for you.