Wii Sales

Wii Sales headlines

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

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

• Wii moves 2 million units in Australia within 47 months

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

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

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

• NOA estimates Wii sold 3 million units in US during December

  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.

• Reggie says Nintendo has "a number of important" games coming to Wii, DS

  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 […]

• Wii hits 7 million in Japan

  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. More through the link.

• Wii hits 24.45 million units to date

  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 […]