Wii leads but third party games are trailing
The Nintendo Wii continues to show impressive sales figures from its December breakout and well into January, reports the NPD, a leading tracker of video game console and software sales numbers.
Some skeptical analysts earlier predicted that Nintendo of America may again fail to deliver hardware units to meet the demand posted by consumers, which was apparently wrong as the Wii sold 435,000 units which puts it far ahead of rivals PlayStation 3 which chalked in 244,000 while Microsoft’s Xbox 360 registered a significant 294,000. Perhaps the most amazing figure is that of the Playstation 2’s which, despite the fact that it’s 7 years old, had 299,000 people buy it.
Nintendo seems to have made it a point not to make the same mistake they made with the GameCube, which had a good showing at the onset but failed to deliver in its first quarter during its heyday.
Moving on to software, Nintendo games continue to rake in cash as WarioWare: Smooth Moves and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess have combined for a dominating 392,000 copies sold in January alone. Smooth Moves led the way with 202,000 while Twilight Princess sold 192,000. This ups the total count for the latest Zelda to 1.1 million copies sold. The figure is for the Wii version only and does not include the GameCube version’s 670,000 buys in the US since it shipped.
Rayman Raving Rabbids with 185,000, Ubisoft’s Red Steel’s 260,000 and Madden NFL ’07with 56,000 round up the top five for last month. This concretizes the notion of some that third-party games most often do not do well on Nintendo platforms. Thoughts, violent reactions, a different view on this scenario? Speak out in the comments section.
Via IGN
The Nintendo Wii continues to show impressive sales figures from its December breakout and well into January, reports the NPD, a leading tracker of video game console and software sales numbers.
Some skeptical analysts earlier predicted that Nintendo of America may again fail to deliver hardware units to meet the demand posted by consumers, which was apparently wrong as the Wii sold 435,000 units which puts it far ahead of rivals PlayStation 3 which chalked in 244,000 while Microsoft’s Xbox 360 registered a significant 294,000. Perhaps the most amazing figure is that of the Playstation 2’s which, despite the fact that it’s 7 years old, had 299,000 people buy it.
Nintendo seems to have made it a point not to make the same mistake they made with the GameCube, which had a good showing at the onset but failed to deliver in its first quarter during its heyday.
Moving on to software, Nintendo games continue to rake in cash as WarioWare: Smooth Moves and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess have combined for a dominating 392,000 copies sold in January alone. Smooth Moves led the way with 202,000 while Twilight Princess sold 192,000. This ups the total count for the latest Zelda to 1.1 million copies sold. The figure is for the Wii version only and does not include the GameCube version’s 670,000 buys in the US since it shipped.
Rayman Raving Rabbids with 185,000, Ubisoft’s Red Steel’s 260,000 and Madden NFL ’07with 56,000 round up the top five for last month. This concretizes the notion of some that third-party games most often do not do well on Nintendo platforms. Thoughts, violent reactions, a different view on this scenario? Speak out in the comments section.
Via IGN
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