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 and the DS] appears to indicate that unprecedented interactive entertainment experiences, provided by a combination of the revolutionary nature of DS and Wii with the increasing number of unique software titles for the system from Nintendo and third parties, are being enjoyed by both avid and new gamers of all ages."
Game on.
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 and the DS] appears to indicate that unprecedented interactive entertainment experiences, provided by a combination of the revolutionary nature of DS and Wii with the increasing number of unique software titles for the system from Nintendo and third parties, are being enjoyed by both avid and new gamers of all ages."
Game on.
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