Nintendo Wii sets record as fastest-selling console in the US
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 12th 2009 4:13PM
posted June 12th 2009 4:13PM
[Via Joystiq]
posted June 12th 2009 4:13PM
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it sets records selling the fastest and staying off the longest in my case.
i seriously havent played it more than 2 times this year.
...but will it run Crysis? @_o
Execute Command Line: Bash Console
--- ERROR. DOCUMENTED UNITS EXCEED PERAMETERS.
Execute Command Line: Console Purchasers are Sheep
--- ERROR. 'SHEEP' NOT A DEFINABLE PERAMETER. REQUEST FAILED.
We've established two things: I don't remember how DOS operates, and Nintendo doesn't really care how often you play your Wii. Except that their software sales are strong too... *Shrug* I'm out of ideas.
I put Homebrew to cure the Wii boredom ;-)
Oops. I think you guys posted a 2008 article.
Nintendo were the first to unlock the door that was holding non - gamers back from buying games... and look what massive records they set. Next up.. Natal
"20 million consoles sold after just 31 months on the market, although that number is of course just a small part of the more than 50 million consoles shipped worldwide..."
OK. Admittedly I'm no math major but according to these figures the United States accounts for 40% of world-wide sales. As of last December, there had been a total of 7 million Wiis sold in Japan. Assuming the same pace of sales since then (sales have been slowing), there are still significantly more Wiis sold in the U.S. than in Japan.
Strange that 40% of a world market "a small part."
blah, wii is still wiik...
see what i did there.
I just got tiger woods pga tour 2010 for the wii with the wii motion plus atatchment and ihonestly say the wii is not garbage.
If more games take advantage of wii motion plus and developers make games artistic then the wii wont be garbage anymore.
I bet the same people bashing the wii are the same ones rooting for natal.
Isn't it obvious? It's the cheapest one at launch. Paired that with the frequent "sold out" status to drum out news and hype. Not only that, all Wiis come with a game out of the box. One can bash Nintendo, but now everybody is trying to come up with motion controller.
I think I have a new quote here, "Not only that, all Wiis come with a game out of the box." LOL =D
i dont know.......i play Call of Duty world at war EVERY damn day on the wii.........i just love the controls with the wii zapper!
Congrats Nintendo, but we all know the Wii was in a way a test to see how it would work. It is just a glorified GameCube with motion controls. I can't wait for Wii HD with 1:1 controls, You will have a great console with HD graphics, a more refined 1:1 controller and all the game franchises. I mean what else do you need? If Xbox has Natal, and Sony has the new eyetoy motion control, I am sure for Wii HD Nintendo has something planed which will surprise us all. After more or less 3 years I am still loving my Wii. Yea there could be better games on it but the 40 or so games I do have satisfy me. Just goes to show how Nintendo leads the way, with the fact that some though the motion control was stupid, most people thought it was great, and now Xbox and Sony copying them. Didn't Nintendo say the future would not be graphics but interface. Look how Sony and Microsoft scramble to get their own. I still love the way the Wii remote and nunchuck feel, its as natural as a regular controller. Soon we have a Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros., A new Metroid, and new Zelda all on the way.
I don't know, I used to be the biggest Nintendo fan ever (Hence the "N" in my online alias going on 13 years now), I even loved the GameCube. But the Wii, I don't know. I haven't really had any fun on it. I've had some "Yeah, that's neat I guess" moments. But nothing anywhere near as amazing as the experiences I've gotten in games like Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Left 4 Dead, Halo 3, Oblivion, and others.
I'm going to start playing Okami sometime in the next couple weeks, and I'm hoping that will change my mind. But then again, it's just a PS2 port...
THE BEST PART OF THE WII IS THE INTERNET ACCESS FOR PORN!
OK, I don't like talking about game systems because it's like talking about God to some people buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
OK, we all know the doesn't have good graphics, but that isn't their main focus, it was the motion controls.
I know, a lot of the games are not that fun, but you can't bash the Wii about that can you? I have found games that are fun though, you just have to look.
I own a Wii, I found it very fun, but I guess it all depends on your preference of games.