Wii Sells More Than 3 Million
More good news for Nintendo as its new console goes triple-platinum.
Things tend to slow down over the year-end holiday season but Nintendo has been keeping busy. New reports say the company has sold more than 3 million Wiis worldwide since the global launch in November.
According to US video game TV channel G4 the Wii sold 3.19 million units around the world by the end of 2006. More than half of those were sold in the US.
Nintendo hasn't yet confirmed the numbers, but they do go along with the company's estimates that it would have 4 million Wiis ready to buy by the end of the year.
People would probably have bought more Wiis if they could, but retailers have been sold out of the console for weeks now. Christmas shoppers hoping to bring one home mostly went home empty handed.
And it's not just the Wii. UK retailers have sung the praises of the DS Lite, which Nintendo said was the best-selling game system of the year in 2006.
"We sold 3,000 DS Lite units in three hours last week," Play.com's Gian Luzio told MCV in late December. "As soon as we get any colour in, it goes."
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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