Tag Archives: wii sales

Mon, Jan 31, 2011 | 20:19 GMT

Nintendo: Lifetime DS sales hit 144 million, Wii almost 85 million

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Earlier today, Nintendo reported its earnings for the last quarter of 2010, as well as the nine months leading up to December 31, and it found the firm with low profits and cutting its Wii sales forecast to 16 million units from 17.5 million units for the year to March.

It also reported the life-to-date sales of its DS line and Wii.

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Tue, Jan 04, 2011 | 14:49 GMT

Nintendo: DS and Wii hit 47 million and 34 million US milestones

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Nintendo has announced it hit two Wii and DS sales milestones during 2010 in the US.

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Wed, Nov 10, 2010 | 19:41 GMT

Wii moves 2 million units in Australia within 47 months

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Wii has sold 2 million units in Australia within 47 months, thanks in part to a price drop back in April.

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Wed, Jun 23, 2010 | 20:07 BST

Wii is “higher in life-to-date sales” than PS3 or 360, says Reggie

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Reggie Fils-Aime has defended Wii’s falling sales, after comments suggesting the console may have seen its heyday surfaced last week.

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Tue, Jan 05, 2010 | 17:52 GMT

NOA estimates Wii sold 3 million units in US during December

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Nintendo of America said today that, while sales data for December and all of 2009 will be revealed by the NPD Group on January 14, it’s estimated that US consumers bought 3 million Wii units in December.

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Fri, Apr 17, 2009 | 22:17 BST

Reggie says Nintendo has “a number of important” games coming to Wii, DS

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NoA’s Reggie Fils-Aime has nonchalantly responded to the March NPD’s – which showed Wii sales at 601,000 for the month – saying Nintendo has “a number of important” new games incoming for both Wii and DS to boost hardware figures.

According to Reuters, Reggie is “confident that we’ll continue to see very strong hardware sales behind those launch titles.”

GameStop rumored yesterday that a Christmas blockbuster was in the works at Nintendo.

Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | 08:50 GMT

Wii hits 7 million in Japan

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Kotaku’s reporting that Wii’s hit the 7 million mark in Japan.

The target was reached in the period between December 2006 (launch) and November 23, according to Enterbrain.

Sales of the machine are slowing. Wii hit 5 million sales in January this year, then 6 million in May.

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Thu, Apr 24, 2008 | 19:18 BST

Wii hits 24.45 million units to date

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In its 2008 financial year results, Nintendo’s confirmed that Wii has now sold 24.45 million units worldwide, and 18.61 million of those in the 12 months ending March 31.

Wii Fit, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wii Sports, Wii Play, Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Party 8 have been named as the biggest Wii hitter of the year for the firm.

See the full results here.