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Zucas on 14 January 2010

Although Wii had a slow and troublesome year in 2009, well down in some months from its record pace in 2008, it sure as hell ended the year with a bang.  NPD has reported that 3.81 million units of the Wii were sold in the U.S. in December 2009.  This crushes the previous record of 3.03 million units set by DS in December 2008, which DS broke as well this December as it sold 3.31 million units.  The previous home console record was that of the PS2 which sold 2.7 million units in December 2003. 

 

This is definitely some record we might hear about for awhile as it took a long time to beat that old PS2 record with the DS and who would have thought the DS one would have been broken the year after.  Overall though sales were big in December and we'll see how things play out in 2010.



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Bamboleo on 14 January 2010

I wanna see Nintendo surpassing it's own numbers next xmas. Zelda Wii and Wii Relax shall do the trick.

NSMBWii will be there for shure, Wii Fit Plus, Wii Sports Resort and I don't know if Mario Kart still has a chance to chart on the top 10 since somewhere there might be Halo Reach, CoD7 and Gran Turismo 5.



Zucas on 14 January 2010

Also like to point out that due to the magnitude of this year's December sales, Wii was almost able to recoup year over year. In 2008, NPD had Wii at 10.15 million in sales. In 2009, if I've done my math right, Wii should be about 9.6 million units for the entire year. Still down year over year, but man from what it was looking like they really did make this close.



Zucas on 14 January 2010

To further my last post, this is from The Source's NPD article:

In 2009, hardware sales for the six systems were nearly as strong as in 2008 thanks to December.

DS - 11.21m

Wii - 9.59m

X360 - 4.77m

PS3 - 4.32m

PSP - 2.50m

PS2 - 1.80m

With the massive December, Wii is down less than 6% from its record setting 2008 (10.16m). DS increased 13% from 2008 (9.95m). X360 was just about flat from 2008 (4.74m). PS3 increased by 22% from 2008 levels (3.54m). PSP and PS2 dropped off rather sharply from much stronger 2008 levels - 3.83m (-35%) and 2.50m (-28%) respectively.

Source's Article

So yea obviously was a pretty big year Wii only down 6% after that massive December. 



Zucas on 14 January 2010

I'm surprised people aren't chiming in here haha. Last year, all people could talk about is Wii potentially beating that PS2 2.7 million home console record. But shortages caused it to miss it. This year, it crushed it haha. I'd say that's a pretty big deal haha.



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Mummelmann on 14 January 2010

It has had a decent year in NA it seems, but what's the tally if you add up the rest of the world? Japan sales have to have had a big drop yoy, its been super slow for all the consoles in 2009.



griffinA on 14 January 2010

The people on IGN are pretty much having a meltdown



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."

SaviorX on 14 January 2010

^^^They are all in The Source's NPD thread arguing over the margin of error in which the PS3 "beat" the 360.

The Wii gets no respect sometimes LOL. If this isn't indicative of a console companies should be supporting, I give up haha



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killeryoshis on 14 January 2010

Did I warp back to 2008 or somthing, Just kidding..... I'm just wondering if the wii can beat 08 this year with those numbers. I'm starting to think thwice. I guess we'll wait and see



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trangentspree on 14 January 2010
Zucas said:
I'm surprised people aren't chiming in here haha. Last year, all people could talk about is Wii potentially beating that PS2 2.7 million home console record. But shortages caused it to miss it. This year, it crushed it haha. I'd say that's a pretty big deal haha.

I think the action going on in the NPD thread as well as other meltdowns across the net are sucking people in.

This is trully awe inspiring stuff though.

Nintendo's success this year coupled with the promises of 2010 make this the best time to be a Ninentdo gamer for me.