It's official. According to Chart Track, the Nintendo Wii is the fastest selling home console in history. Selling 1 million units in 38 weeks, it surpassed PS2 which sold 1 million units after 50 weeks and XBox 360 which sold 1 million units in 60 weeks. This means that the Nintendo Wii has a 68% stake in the home console market, and the Nintendo DS has an 86% stake in the handheld gaming market. "The non-stop demand for Wii even in the traditionally slow sales periods for video games in the UK is clearly behind this record breaking achievement," states the report. I believe that the main reasoning behind this is the innovation that Nintendo is putting into their products, like the motion sensor-based controller. When I first read the reports in the grapevine of this, I couldn't believe, yet they pulled it off. Sony tried to come up with their own version, but it's not as sophisticated. The report continues to state: "The performance of both systems [Wii a...
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