Satoru Iwata has revealed to Reuters that Nintendo shifted 800,000 Wii consoles during Thanksgiving week in the US. This represents more than double last year’s sales over the same period which were a comparatively weedy 350,000. At the same time, Iwata spoke of DS’s continued success, with the dual-screened handheld selling 20% more than in November 2007.

Further to this, Videogaming247 is reporting that Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has estimated Wii’s November sales to be around 1.4 million, compared with 800,000 for the price-reduced Xbox 360 and a paltry 400,000 for the PS3. While unlikely to be bang on the money, Pachter’s predictions are rarely too far out, and it looks as if Wii will have easily outsold its two HD rivals put together. 

800,000 consoles in one week? What credit crunch? Nintendo laughs in the face of global recession. Could be that Miyamoto’s assertion that entertainment comes second only to food in terms of life’s necessities may just be right.

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm by Chris Schilling
Hardware, Wii, charts, success.