West Coast Connection Forum
Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Trauma-san on May 17, 2007, 04:59:54 PM
-
http://wii.ign.com/articles/789/789576p1.html
Wii and DS Dominate April
New data from NPD is in and Nintendo's console absolutely owned all competitors.
by Matt Casamassina
May 17, 2007 - The NPD Group today released videogame hardware sales data for April and Nintendo's Wii and DS consoles were again the big winners, as both platforms dominated all competitors. This marks the fourth month running that Nintendo has nabbed the top spots with its respective systems on the hardware sales charts.
Nintendo DS was the overall best-selling system of April with approximately 471,000 units sold -- more than twice that of handheld competitor PSP, which managed 182,000 units sold.
Despite being in limited supply, Wii was, meanwhile, the best-selling console for the month. More than 360,000 new consumers purchased Nintendo's home console in April, nearly doubling the nearest competitor. The second best-selling home system was PlayStation 2 with 193,000 units sold. Microsoft's Xbox 360 managed 174,000 units sold and Sony convinced only 82,000 people to purchase a PlayStation 3 for the month, lower than all analyst estimates.
Nintendo was also the number-one software publisher for the month, releasing the top four best-selling games -- Pokemon Diamond and Pearl for DS, and Super Paper Mario and Wii Play for Wii. The Pokemon titles sold a combined 1.7 million games in about a week.
"Nothing is more valuable in the entertainment world than an evergreen franchise," said Reggie Fils-Aime, president and COO, Nintendo of America. "These new Pokemon titles have cemented their place longside the most enduring intellectual properties of the book, music and movie industries. And that appeal will expand even further with the introduction of Pokemon Battle Revolution to our Wii home console next month."
Pokemon Battle Revolution is scheduled to release for Wii on June 28.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ouuuuuch. DS OR Wii outsells the Ps3 & 360 combined. OR, you could say the DS & The Wii outsold all other consoles combined including the ps3, psp, ps2, xbox, and the 360. Whichever you really prefer.
-
Have both systems,love em both
-
wii is a great system but im still waitin for more good games, zelda is the shit
waitin for super paper mario coming soon (and mortal kombat)
Q4 07-08 super smash bros/mario/metroid/etc.
-
Ouuuuuch. DS OR Wii outsells the Ps3 & 360 combined. OR, you could say the DS & The Wii outsold all other consoles combined including the ps3, psp, ps2, xbox, and the 360. Whichever you really prefer.
And I bet it makes you tingly all over.
-
Still on yer lil crusade.............(Yawn).