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Nintendo Sells 46,000 Wii Remotes Every Day

More than 65.3 Million Wii Remote Controllers sold in the United States.

According to Nintendo, the company has sold more than 65 million Wii remotes in the United States since the launch of the console in November 2006. It averages 46,000 Wii Remotes sold every day.

"This demonstrates that Wii owners like to play and they like to play together. They're not the stereotypical gamers playing alone in their parents' basement," Nintendo says.

Here's the breakdown of U.S. Wii remote controller sales by retail tracking group NPD:

• 30.41 million included with the Wii hardware
• 12.92 million sold with Wii Play
• 18.56 million white versions sold separately
• 2.44 million black versions sold separately
• 467,500 pink versions sold separately
• 465,200 blue versions sold separately

NPD also reports Nintendo has sold an additional 52.9 million Nunchuk controllers in the United States through September.

On November 7, Nintendo will launch the The Wii Remote Plus, a new controller that combines the traditional Wii remote and Wii RemotePlus add-on.



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The title of the thread doesn't say everything (because it would have been too long) so you have to read the article to fully understand what this number means.



Already posted I'm afraid.



Smeags said:

Already posted I'm afraid.

Ah thank you for letting me know.



Does this mean we overtracked wii by around 5 million?

Americas Hardware

ConsoleWeekly (change)Total
DS 103,761 (-12%) 49,519,960
X360 90,053 (-2%) 25,270,325
PS3 68,613 (-2%) 15,652,688
Wii 65,647 ( 7%) 35,102,377
PSP 19,683 (-8%) 20,051,603
PS2 7,731 (-5%) 52,312,945

This tells me there should have been 35.1 million wii controllers sold with hardware, and they only sold 30.41, and I dont know if in America there are bundles with 2 controllers? because in europe we do, this would mean we overtracked them even worse, right?



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Christenal said:

Does this mean we overtracked wii by around 5 million?

Americas Hardware

ConsoleWeekly (change)Total
DS 103,761 (-12%) 49,519,960
X360 90,053 (-2%) 25,270,325
PS3 68,613 (-2%) 15,652,688
Wii 65,647 ( 7%) 35,102,377
PSP 19,683 (-8%) 20,051,603
PS2 7,731 (-5%) 52,312,945

This tells me there should have been 35.1 million wii controllers sold with hardware, and they only sold 30.41, and I dont know if in America there are bundles with 2 controllers? because in europe we do, this would mean we overtracked them even worse, right?

The report specifies that this accounts for Wii Remotes sold in the United states. VGChartz "Americas" track the U.S., as well as other North American countries like Canada and Mexico.



Smeags said:
Christenal said:

Does this mean we overtracked wii by around 5 million?

Americas Hardware

ConsoleWeekly (change)Total
DS 103,761 (-12%) 49,519,960
X360 90,053 (-2%) 25,270,325
PS3 68,613 (-2%) 15,652,688
Wii 65,647 ( 7%) 35,102,377
PSP 19,683 (-8%) 20,051,603
PS2 7,731 (-5%) 52,312,945

This tells me there should have been 35.1 million wii controllers sold with hardware, and they only sold 30.41, and I dont know if in America there are bundles with 2 controllers? because in europe we do, this would mean we overtracked them even worse, right?

The report specifies that this accounts for Wii Remotes sold in the United states. VGChartz "Americas" track the U.S., as well as other North American countries like Canada and Mexico.

"Other North American countries like Canada and Mexico"

lol



Boutros said:
Smeags said:

The report specifies that this accounts for Wii Remotes sold in the United states. VGChartz "Americas" track the U.S., as well as other North American countries like Canada and Mexico.

"Other North American countries like Canada and Mexico"

lol

Now I'm confuzzled.



Smeags said:
Boutros said:
Smeags said:

The report specifies that this accounts for Wii Remotes sold in the United states. VGChartz "Americas" track the U.S., as well as other North American countries like Canada and Mexico.

"Other North American countries like Canada and Mexico"

lol

Now I'm confuzzled.

Canada and Mexico are the two only other North American countries :P



Boutros said:
Smeags said:
Boutros said:
Smeags said:

The report specifies that this accounts for Wii Remotes sold in the United states. VGChartz "Americas" track the U.S., as well as other North American countries like Canada and Mexico.

"Other North American countries like Canada and Mexico"

lol

Now I'm confuzzled.

Canada and Mexico are the two only other North American countries :P

Are they? Haha... they pretty much are (Greenland, Guatemala, and the Carribean for the win! Probaby have .01% of NA Wii sales lol...)