800,000 Wii consoles sold in North America during Thanksgiving week

The Wii is a beast that can not be beaten. :yes:

There's gonna be a lot of happy kids this year. Nintendo is offering the best console at the best price. They are the most innovative of the 3 gaming giants. Congrats to them for keeping the Nintendo name so strong. Long live Super Mario!!!!!

P.S. The Mor probably bought like 400k of those.

The marketing power of families with little kids at work.

Despite having a few Wii's it is by far the least played console in the house. DS, PS2, PS3, 360 all get far more play time... Well, the PS3 not so much... But the rest yeah.

"mor911 wrote:

Despite having a few Wii's it is by far the least played console in the house. DS, PS2, PS3, 360 all get far more play time... Well, the PS3 not so much... But the rest yeah.

have you played super smash bros brawl? that game is addicting and awesome.

"Medieval954 wrote:

We know that Nintendo's Wii was a hot search item during the Black Friday shopping rush, but just how much of the Thanksgiving week buzz translated into sales for the console? Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirms with Reuters that his company sold 800,000 Wii consoles across a seven-day period including both Thanksgiving day and the dreaded Black Friday in North America. The figure is impressive in its own right, and that's before taking into account how it doubles the 350,000 units sold around the same timeframe last year.

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That's obscene. November NPD chart will be epic.

Do they have a statistic for the re-sale and trade-in rates? :chuckle:

"gi§h® wrote:

There's gonna be a lot of happy kids this year. Nintendo is offering the best console at the best price. They are the most innovative of the 3 gaming giants. Congrats to them for keeping the Nintendo name so strong. Long live Super Mario!!!!!

P.S. The Mor probably bought like 400k of those.

I think with the Wii it's more a case of you get what you pay for. The 360 and ps3 are/were more expensive but their playability and lastability far outweighs that of the Wii.

"mor911 wrote:

Despite having a few Wii's it is by far the least played console in the house. DS, PS2, PS3, 360 all get far more play time... Well, the PS3 not so much... But the rest yeah.

Case in point. Ever since I bought my Elite I haven't played anything else. Except I use the PS3 to play NCAA, multi-region you see :lol:

"Regan21286 wrote:

The marketing power of families with little kids at work.

Here, not sure about you guys but the new Wii/Nintendo adds are being done by Olivia Newton-John. Everytime I go to a game store there's some 40+ year old woman buying a Wii together with WiiFit. So yeah target marketing really does work. :lol:

Just as I post this there's an ad for Wii playing on the radio :shifty: spooky.

While Microsoft decided to jump out of the gates early with their defective consoles and Sony decided to take their sweet time with a powerhouse console that nobody wants to develop games for, Nintendo decided to go in a different direction and has made fools of both of them. Bill Gates can keep buying rights for exclusives and downloadable whatevers he wants and Sony can make promises of the greatest thing you've ever seen in high definition and it won't matter. The success of Blu-ray won't be enough either.

The Wii sales are unbelievable. Was the NES even this big?

Congrats to Nintendo...

Now make another Zelda and Mario. And make Punchout Wii not suck. And come out with that phantom Kid Icarus game. And put majoras mask on virtual console. and make another new super mario bros DS game.

Wii = Larger targeted demographic & cheaper prices than competition = Big Win for Nintendo

What's the attachment rate? How much is it actually being played?

This is just the beginning of the snowball IMO.

3 months ago, our local Blockbuster had a Section that was equally split between XBOX-360 and Wii.
Now the entire Section and half of the next is nothing but Wii.
360 is a very small corner off by itself. :up:

If they make a new Zelda game I might consider getting a Wii. Those games are a sentimental favorite of mine.

"muscle979 wrote:

If they make a new Zelda game I might consider getting a Wii. Those games are a sentimental favorite of mine.

One thing that is kindve nice, Gamecube games are completely compatible. You dont get the nice wireless motion thing with them that you do with Wii games, but they work just fine none-the-less :up:

My Gamecube just happened to go out in June, so it was an easy choice. Picked up the Wii dirt-cheap and already had ohhhh about 30 games or so.

EDIT: And yeah, I believe they did just come out with a new Zelda? At least there has been plenty of talk about it recently. I will see what I can dig up

EDIT2: That didnt take long :lol:

http://wii.ign.com/objects/748/748589.html

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/thelegendofzelda/index.html

"darkmistress wrote:

Here, not sure about you guys but the new Wii/Nintendo adds are being done by Olivia Newton-John. Everytime I go to a game store there's some 40+ year old woman buying a Wii together with WiiFit. So yeah target marketing really does work. :lol:

Well yeah, what 40 year old woman doesn't want to jazzercise with Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel Air?

:shifty:

I'm a long time Nintendo fan, I was a little skeptical about the Wii at first, but that gimmick is actually really fun to play.

"CitizenSnips wrote:

Congrats to Nintendo...

Now make another Zelda and Mario. And make Punchout Wii not suck. And come out with that phantom Kid Icarus game. And put majoras mask on virtual console. and make another new super mario bros DS game.

Bro, I'm still waiting on that Star Fox game.

"Silverphin wrote:

Bro, I'm still waiting on that Star Fox game.

star fox FTW!!!!!

"darkmistress wrote:

Here, not sure about you guys but the new Wii/Nintendo adds are being done by Olivia Newton-John. Everytime I go to a game store there's some 40+ year old woman buying a Wii together with WiiFit. So yeah target marketing really does work. :lol:

Just as I post this there's an ad for Wii playing on the radio :shifty: spooky.

lol, ok, add middle aged women to the list of demographics. Yea, I don't think I'll be playing video games much with them. :lol:

"azfinfanmang wrote:

One thing that is kindve nice, Gamecube games are completely compatible. You dont get the nice wireless motion thing with them that you do with Wii games, but they work just fine none-the-less :up:

My Gamecube just happened to go out in June, so it was an easy choice. Picked up the Wii dirt-cheap and already had ohhhh about 30 games or so.

EDIT: And yeah, I believe they did just come out with a new Zelda? At least there has been plenty of talk about it recently. I will see what I can dig up

EDIT2: That didnt take long :lol:

IGN: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Zelda: Twilight Princess)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for WII - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Wii - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess WII Game

They didn't make a "new" Zelda game for the Wii, they just ported a gamecube game.

"sking29 wrote:

The Wii is a beast that can not be beaten. :yes:

Give me a PS2 and it's library over the wii personally (and I have a wii).

"Silverphin wrote:

Bro, I'm still waiting on that Star Fox game.

that too. And maybe an F-zero game. Nintendo has so many franchises to build off of.

"like2god wrote:

Well yeah, what 40 year old woman doesn't want to jazzercise with Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel Air?

:shifty:

I'm a long time Nintendo fan, I was a little skeptical about the Wii at first, but that gimmick is actually really fun to play.

Don't get me wrong, I love nintendo too. The Zelda series is a long time favourite of mine.

For me the Wii is like a neat party trick. The "gimmick", as you say, was pretty cool at first but wore off pretty quickly for me. Very few of the games have any substance. And I won't tell you what my brother (who was a fill-in games reviewer for a while) says about Wii lovers as it might offend some :chuckle: :tongue2:

My 360 is definitely my best friend :yes:

I do not care much for the Wii, now my kids and wife love it but I guess I am to old and uncordnated to work the darn thing.

I have had my wii since Nov of 06. So far I've probably played my 360 that I got in AUGUST of this year more total than the Wii.

I liked it a lot when I first got it but all the "great games" that came out do nothing for me.

I guess people like me aren't the demo.

I would like to have Wii to play Metroid Prime 3 and the new Punch-Out. That's about it.

My wife would like one for family entertainment.

I could not live on a Wii alone but I would like to have one. Actually I want all 3 consoles and both handhelds but I don't have the time or money for all of them. I can barely "cough" buy games for the 360.