QVC -- the American cable TV shopping channel -- featured the Wii yesterday (Dec. 2) in two hour-long shows devoted to Nintendo as its "hot deal" of the day.

It was cheesy -- but it appeared the channel moved upwards of 6000 to 7000 Wii bundless and close to 3000 Wii Fit Plus bundles during the day. (Numbers were updated infrequently -- but I can tell you during the evening segment (9-10 p.m. EST (NYC Time)), the Wii sold about 10 units per minute for the 25 minutes it was featured.   (It also featured a SW: Republic Heroes bundle with the combo blaster/light saber but no sales numbers were ever mentioned).

I am not sure what was stranger -- the presentation that seemed straight from 2007 or the bundled lack of value (Wii for $320 included a travel kit, the controller sports kit (third-party wheel, golf club, tennis racket, etc.), an component (HD) cable, and a $20 game. And I wondered how many of these people would ever buy another game -- unless of course QVC featured a software night and sold them $20 games for $25.

Mike from Morgantown

Sweet, Nintendo should get one of those late night infomertials going with a guy who talks like he's about to have a heart attack. That would be awesome.

Like Steve "IT'S WINDOWS FROM MICROSOFT!!!" Ballmer?

^ I was thinking more like Tony Little

http://www.tonylittle.com/

He could pitch a wii fit bundle or something.

Let's not go all infomerical like Atari did with the Jaguar.
(It's 64 Bits!!)


Mike form Morgantown