Hundreds of thousands still waiting for their Wii March 19, 2007
Nintendo Wii continued its impressive performance to once again top the list of best-selling video games console in the United States for the month of February, according to latest figures released by market research firm NPD.
Wii managed to sell over 54 percent of the total hardware sales in February, with gamers grabbing all available units in the market. In total Nintendo sold over 335,000 units Wii consoles. The Japanese game maker continued to rule even in the portable consoles, with over 485,000 units of Nintendo DS being sold, which is more than double the number of PlayStation Portable units sold in the same period.
Reggie Fils-Aime, president, Nintendo of America, was understandably delighted with the performance, saying that his company will be intensifying the production of new units to take care of the shortage.
“We’re gratified that the explosive appeal of Wii, in terms of both new players and new ways to play, has created unprecedented demand, substantially beyond supply. But we also understand that there are hundreds of thousands of consumers still waiting to get their hands on the system so we continue to both ship more units to retail every week and work non-stop to build capacity”, he said.
Xbox 360 was second on the list, selling around 228,000 copies while PlayStation 3 had to settle for third spot, managing to sell a dismal 127,000 units, even though there were no reports of shortages.
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You can check out my NYC midnight launch party video, here. I already had one on pre-order, but while getting footage I was pushed into line and ended up being one of the first 100 or so into Toys R Us…
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