Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Nintendo sells 600,000 Wii's on Black Friday


REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- When confronted with a wide range of Black Friday retail options, U.S. holiday shoppers again turned to Nintendo. Nintendo sold 900,000 combined units in the Nintendo DS™ family of systems and 600,000 Wii™ consoles between Sunday, Nov. 21, and Saturday, Nov. 27, according to the company’s internal sales estimates.
“U.S. shoppers bought about 9,000 Nintendo hardware systems nonstop for every hour of every day during the week of Black Friday,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. “For the past several years, consumers have decided that Nintendo defined both top value and all-inclusive entertainment, and that sentiment continues again at the start of this shopping season.”
Nintendo’s Black Friday surge was fueled by multiple new hardware colors, each of which comes bundled with games. The bundles provide a great value for shoppers who are looking to get the biggest bang for their video game bucks. These bundles, all of which are available while supplies last, include:
Limited-edition Mario red Wii hardware in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros.™ game on the NES™. It includes a new red Wii system, a red Wii Remote™ Plus controller, a red Nunchuk™ controller, and games New Super Mario Bros.™ Wii and Wii Sports™ at a suggested retail price of $199.99.
A limited-edition red Nintendo DSi XL™ bundle in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. game on the NES. It features a Mario red Nintendo DSi XL system with three iconic Super Mario Bros.-themed graphics, the Mario Kart™ DS game and preloaded software, including Brain Age™ Express: Arts & Letters, Brain Age Express: Math and Photo Clock. It is available at a suggested retail price of $179.99.
Orange and green Nintendo DSi™ systems, which are bundled with the Mario Party™ DS game. They are available at a suggested retail price of $149.99.
In addition to the great hardware bundles, shoppers have dozens of great video game options for everyone on their shopping lists. Some exclusive games for the Wii console include Super Mario Galaxy™ 2, Metroid™: Other M, Wii Party™, Kirby’s Epic Yarn™, PokéPark™ Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure, FlingSmash™ (which comes bundled with the new Wii Remote Plus) and Donkey Kong Country™ Returns. Third-party Wii games include New Carnival Games® from 2K Play, NBA JAM from EA Sports, Just Dance® 2 from Ubisoft, Sonic Colors™ from SEGA, GoldenEye 007™ from Activision Publishing Inc. and Disney Epic Mickey from Disney Interactive Studios.
On the portable Nintendo DS family of systems, shoppers can choose games like DRAGON QUEST® IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies™, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future™, Pokémon Ranger™: Guardian Signs, Art Academy™, Mario vs. Donkey Kong™: Mini-Land Mayhem! and Golden Sun™: Dark Dawn. Some key third-party Nintendo DS games include Super Scribblenauts™ from WB Games, Rock Band® 3 from MTV Games, GoldenEye 007 from Activision Publishing Inc. and Sonic Colors from SEGA.

It's hard for me to imagine the Wii being able to pull of these numbers again during the next holiday season. Third Party developers besides a select few have all but given up on the Wii and next to no big games outside of Nintendo themselves are planned for next year. Nintendo is definitely not in trouble though as this kind of things seems to happen after the 4 year of a consoles lifespan and even more so with the Wii since it's technology is not what developers wanted from the start. Many lost causes on the Wii and lost opportunities for developers to really show what the system could do early on in it's life. 

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Next year they will have the 3DS and boy will they reap the profit from that!
I am really looking forward to Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid and am hopeful for the movies, if they manage to get more movies like Transformers and possibly Peter Jacksons King Kong done for 3DS movieplayer all the better.

Anonymous said...

not wiis problem not nintendos problem not nintendo fans problem,its the industries problem and sonys and microsofts too,wii is 9 months ahead of ps2s record at this point in its life span THE FASTEST SELLING CONSOLE OF ALL TIME ,add to that ps2 required breaking consoles and replace buys and exchanges on warranty to hit its numbers... wii did not there all real sales and nintendo doesnt count a replaced console as a sale, so its more like 18 months ahead in REAL SALES...

ipad iphone and all the gasing is industry bullshit DS/wii are owning still and wii shall again be best seller overall globally this year vs ps3 and x360

global wii remote install base is way over 100 million and wm+ at 30 million plus easy as is balance board,kinect and move about 2.5 million sold conbined there dead not wii....

Anonymous said...

Boy, those are pretty good numbers. Everyone else is writing about the demise of the Wii. I guess when you're huge, a "slump" is not just a slump but a fall. Those articles are probably written by the same guys who thought the Wii would never take off...
Anyone think the 3DS might be able to somehow expand on the Wii's hardware? I don't just mean connectivity, but as a true expansion peripheral that may boost processing power?
I read that there is still some very cool info regarding 3DS that they have yet to reveal...just a little speculating.

Anonymous said...

a system out selling its competitors after years of doing just that is no fall or down turn, its just the way it is they report WII LOSS/WII FALL/WII DOWNTURN ETC....what they dont report is those down turns are still kicking ps3 and x360 ass,what ps3 and x360 fans forget is basic math..basic counting...

if wii sells so well that the competition are miles behind for near on 4 years THEL NEVER CATCH UP...

if wii sales are down but still overall above the competition THEN ITS WII THATS GAINING INSTALL BASE NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND....

example wii sales slower than last year reporter says FANBOY reaction oh great ps3 is catching up BUT LOOK AGAIN AT THE ACTUAL NUMBERS WII MAINTAINS A SALES LEAD SO WII IS WIDENING ITS GAP PS3 IS NOT CATCHING UP...


people need to learn to count there fingers and add up basic numbers not read anti Nintendo propaganda and blindly believe it...

overall year 2010 globally as in all consoles sold wii leads yert again so a slight gain for ps3 in japan is meaningless and same for x360 in usa AS OVERALL NUMBERS are still wii winning GET IT wii is selling more than ps3 and x360 regardless of small jumps in individual nations....

right lets say wii dropped in 2011 and x360 and ps3 did slightly better they will never catch the wii usserbase as wii userbase is still growing even if slower and ps3 and x360 will never get huge sales so its a loosing battle no matter how you look at it for hd twins...

ADD 3DS into the mix its DS/DSi/3DS/Wii vs ps3 and x360 so overall numbers are so far in nintendos favor all this wii loss ds loss iphone is great ipod is great CRAP is the industry lying to you

Biohazard said...

You can chalk it up to Nintendo's marketing for this miracle. Other than The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the 2011 forecast looks very shallow and bleak. The 3DS, a handheld, has taken most of the spotlight and talks of a Wii successor are intensifying as we end the year. Reggie said the Wii needs to sell 15 million more units before we could even discuss a Wii2, but the press are still shouting at the rooftops for one.

Anonymous said...

the industry and AMERICAN games industry want it now wii 2 that is....ask yourself why they want it....


industry,pachter,press Wii want wii2 now nintendo must do what we say we are correct nintendo is wrong give us wii 2 now and we shall do wii HD ports just like ps3 and x360 we shall back the system

wii doing great highest profit console of all time,nintendo isnt dumb there disrupting playstation and xbox out of existence...

lets pretend nintendo gives in to industry wii 2 released end 2010 HD wii,,,the industry turns around after all the hyping and says wii2 userbase and sales are no were near the userbase of ps3 and x360 we will not make games for it,,presto games industry just destroyed wii THATS WHAT THEY WANT