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Just after posting up an announcement about how Microsoft expanded their market share, Nintendo issued out a release with data saying that they have the “best Holiday Selling Season in U.S. Video Game History” for 2006. They have a long list of achievements including how gamers picked up an average of three games with a Wii, Twilight Princess selling 1.5 million copies for the Gamecube and Wii, and 1.6 million DSes sold in December alone. The big achievement is that Nintendo shipped and sold a million Wiis in 44 days. It’s clear that Nintendo has a lot going for them even if Microsoft sold more 360s during the holiday season. The DS is hot and the Wii has a strong fanbase. See a list of Nintendo’s achievements past the break.
Consumers purchased every Wii console available at retail — more than a million in just the 44 days between U.S. launch and year end.
With sales of another 1.6 million systems in December alone, Nintendo DS achieved full year sell-through of 5.3 million.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was purchased by an extraordinary 86 percent of Wii buyers, or more than 900,000 games for that system alone. Coupled with the companion version released in December for Nintendo GameCube(TM), the two versions of the newest Zelda title totaled approximately 1.5 million unit sales in less than seven weeks, which would represent one of the five best-selling games for the entire year.
Wii owners also purchased an average of three additional games from a wide library of choices, in addition to the Wii Sports title packed in with every hardware system.
Two Nintendo DS titles, New Super Mario Bros.(R) and Brain Age(TM): Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, also were top-10 sellers for the year.
Throughout the November/December holiday shopping period, Nintendo accounted for more than half of all video game hardware systems sold in America.
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3 Responses to “Nintendo breaks US holiday sales records in 2006”
January 11th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I would assume that it would depend on whether Nintendo releases a DS2 (dare I say it… 3 screens! j/k.) There are roughly 128 million people in Japan, so all nintendo needs to do is to finish up the last few hundred million or so and then release a new DS. That or they can just stick with DS and totally bust out the DS-micro!
It’s sorta nice to see that all of the companies did well this holiday season, but I’d like to see 360 die simply because I don’t think that it’s proper to have to buy 3 consoles to play all of the games that come out… and well let’s be honest, if any of the companies can afford to take full loss in their gaming division it’s microsoft. Sorry for being horribly off topic.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Oh and before anyone nit-picks the whole wanting 360 to die comment. Let’s be honest, barring the last gen and current there have never been more than 2 viable platforms in the same gen.
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January 11th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Hard to believe that Nintendo managed to outdo themselves in the Handheld market. In 17 years, the GameBoy name (Regular, Color, Pocket, Advance) sold about 195 million units worldwide.
2 years in the run and the NDS name (Regular and Lite) has almost sold 15 millions units worldwide, and that is despite a shortage of NDS Lite in Japan. makes you wonder how many units the NDS will have sold in 15 years from now?