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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s told Reuters that more than 800,000 Wiis were sold in the US in Thanksgiving week.
The figure is more than twice the 350,000 sold in the key sales period last year.
“When the economy is strong, people tend to buy three things from the top of their wish list. But when things are bad, people often buy only the first thing on their list,” Iwata said.
“Fortunately for us a lot of shoppers put our products at the top of their list.”
Iwata said DS sales were up about 20 percent during the Thanksgiving holiday week in the US compared with a year earlier.
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Blerk said:
Holy shit! This month’s NPDs should be interesting, to say the least!
patlike said:
Fucking madness. I can’t even think that high.
No_PUDding said:
Psychotext’s numbers are gonna be so off.
It doesn’t matter, either way he will somehow be 500,000 off. Not cus he’s bad at guessing, just cus Wii is an anomaly.
Blerk said:
I bet they do 1.5million.
Tonka said:
Jesus H. Christ on a bike. I wonder how many they got holed up in their bunkers.
What did the others do?
Psychotext said:
Pud: I actually went fairly mental on my Wii prediction this month. I have them at 1.51m.
I’ll still be 500k off though.
morriss said:
It’s just ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.
No_PUDding said:
Hah yeah, I don’t often disagree with you, but somehow it will be wrong.
Psychotext said:
My god… I was pretty much exactly 500k out.
Wii 2.04M
NDS 1.57M
360 836k
PSP 421k
PS3 378k
PS2 206k
It’s a monster that can’t be stopped.
No_PUDding said:
WHAT DID I FUCKING SAY?
Psychotext said:
Why!?!? Whyyy!?!?!