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[Zinix]

Nintendo sold more than 1 million hardware units over the last week, the company has confirmed to CNET.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told CNET in a phone interview today that during the last week, its internal data has shown total U.S. hardware sales have reached more than 1.2 million units. That figure includes the Wii U, Wii, 3DS, and DS.

According to Fils-Aime, Nintendo sold over 700,000 consoles during the last week. The Wii U topped the Wii with 400,000 units sold. The Wii, which Nintendo launched all the way back in 2006, was able to muster 300,000 Wii sales during the last week.

"Wii U is essentially sold out of retail and we are doing our best to continually replenish stock," Fils-Aime said. "Retailers are also doing their best to get the product to store shelves. But as soon as product hits retail, they're selling out immediately.

On the portable side, Nintendo sold more than 500,000 hardware units, including 250,000 3DS and 275,000 DS devices. Fils-Aime explained to CNET that the DS outsold the 3DS because of the "significant" deals retailers were offering on Black Friday.

http://news.cnet.com...d-400000-wii-u/

I'm happy for Nintendo, hopefully the good hardware unit numbers continues.

Edited by Zinix, 26 November 2012 - 07:22 PM.

[Sage]

is Intendo some knock off brand? Anyway these are good first week sales and I'm too am happy for Nintendo, I hope we continue to see more and more sells, not only in hardware but software as well.

[Zinix]

is Intendo some knock off brand? Anyway these are good first week sales and I'm too am happy for Nintendo, I hope we continue to see more and more sells, not only in hardware but software as well.

I copy and pasted the title, the title must of been too long.

[Joshua]

That is a nice amount. The Wii U sales should boost once Friday comes around; Euro and Aus release date.

[TheftyGamer]

Very successful launch if you ask me!

[SNES]

It's interesting to see the parallel between the sales of the Wii and DS versus the Wii U and 3DS. Nintendo has (imo) done a fairly poor job of communicating that the U and 3DS are completely new systems to "mainstream" customers, and it's not unusual to see people who think they can buy a 3DS game and use it in their DS, or think the Wii U is a controller addon for the regular Wii. The naming convention is too similar, and yet also so muddy. I wonder how many sales of each were the result of poorly informed employees and customers? Not that Nintendo cares in regards to sales, of course, but it is an image problem. I'm sure the economy factored into the decisions of some customers as well, since the Wii and DS are now very cheap and have a large library of cheap games, but it reminds me of the struggle Sony had getting people to ditch the PS2 for the PS3.

The Wii U and 3DS needed stronger naming, system design, and packaging differences. Even the old "Super" title would have worked, like "Super Wii" or "Super Gameboy". Or heck, go old school, and start using the Nintendo name in the consoles again. The system design is another sticking point. The Wii U and 3DS don't really look much different than the systems that came before then. To the uninformed eye, it looks pretty much the same, which isn't a good way to reel customers in, and this extends to the packaging differences, which are incredibly small. The Wii U games come in a blue case, and the logo is in a different spot, the 3DS is almost exactly the same minus the logo change. Again, these differences may seem small, but they're important.

Really, what bugs me the most is the baffling decisions that the marketing team for Nintendo makes. It's clear a lot of thought went into what they want the Wii U to be, but they've done a terrible job of communicating that to customers, which is why I think the hype hasn't really been there this time around, and why people end up arguing about things like system specs and other launch issues. The system on paper should be a home run, but it just seems like the company hasn't realized why the E3 showing wasn't well recieved.

Then again, with Microsoft trying to copy Apple and Sony doing god knows what, maybe Nintendo has this figured out better than us armchair critics realize.

[SoldMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

I think the Wii U has done great, well done Ninty, 67 hours left untill I get mine, awwwwwwww c'mon..............................

[Gamejunkie]

This has already been posted and discussed here....

http://thewiiu.com/t...its-first-week/

[duck360]

Way to go Nintendo. I hope the haters now see that Nintendo does sell. Wait until it's released in all countries