http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1fVUBKOgsjMR76F-a7d1PDN0Zug
Nintendo ruled 2007 despite shortages of popular Wii console
TORONTO - Despite shortages of its popular Wii system, Nintendo enjoyed a banner year in Canada in 2007.
Nintendo's portable DS was the best-selling system in Canada with 696,500 units sold, ahead of the Wii at 567,000. Together, the DS and Wii (1,263,500) outsold the combined total of the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and 3, and PlayStation Portable (1,227,700), according to the NPD Group, which tracks the industry.
"Last year, what we saw was that consistently the Wii was a top-seller in the market. It wasn't just a holiday thing . . . It became a product that everyone was out searching for and people were still lining up to get the product," Darrel Ryce, director of the NPD Group Canada, said in an interview Monday.
"It was a good year to be Nintendo."
Nintendo has raised worldwide production twice since last April, the last time to 1.8 million units a month.
Still, Nintendo's rivals also did well. With the Wii hard to find, the Xbox 360 was the top-selling system in December in Canada, with the PS3 in second place.
In 2007, the Xbox 360 sold 385,200 units in Canada followed by the PlayStation 2 (324,000), PlayStation 3 (265,500) and the PlayStation Portable (253,000).
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Looks like Wii could have outsold DS here if we had supply.
