Wii storms closer to 25 million mark News
DS Wii News by Robert Purchese
Nintendo has aired its financial laundry and flaunted profits of nearly 50 percent for 2007.
Its year came to a close at the end of March, and saw combined lifetime hardware sales of Wii and DS climb to over 95 million around the world.
Specifically, Wii sold 18.61 million units in 2007, taking its lifetime total to 24.45 million. Star performers for the console were Wii Fit with 1.85 million sales, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl with 4.85 million sales.
Oldies Wii Sports, Wii Play, Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Party 8 were also given a special mention.
Million-sellers for the console rose from 5 to 26.
The DS sold 30.31 million units in 2007, bolstering its lifetime total to 70.6 million. Key players here were Pokémon Diamond/Pearl shifting 9.56 million copies (14.77 million to date), and Brain Training/Brain Training 2 duo combining to reach 11.81 million sales (23.81 million to date).
Special mentions went to The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Mario Party DS, as well as oldies Nintendogs and New Super Mario Bros.
Million-sellers for the handheld rose from 30 to 57.
All of that means lots and lots of money; total sales therefore amounted to JPY 1.67 trillion (USD 16.1 billion), with profit reaching JPY 257 billion (USD 2.48 billion).
As for the year ahead, Nintendo pointed towards downloadable service WiiWare as a fresh stream of revenue. Also, smiling families.
"Nintendo has positioned Wii as a machine that puts smiles on surrounding people's faces by encouraging positive interaction among family members in the living room," reads the financial report.
"In addition to existing software lineups, Nintendo will develop entertainment which is relevant to our daily lives. Nintendo will launch WiiWare which will provide a variety of new and unique software titles to be purchased and downloaded to Wii hardware in the US and Europe.
"Nintendo DS remains positioned as a machine that enriches the owners' daily lives. Nintendo's strategy is to accelerate the current sales momentum from must-have for every family to must-have for everyone by continuously introducing new and unique software introducing new services which take advantage of its expanded installed base," added the report.
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Der_tolle_Emil
24/04/08 @ 09:57
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Quite impressive. I also didn't expect 26 titles to sell over a million. Even if two of them are Wii Play and Wii Sports that leaves quite a lot of games.
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mooseman721
24/04/08 @ 10:45
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That is one hell of a lot of consoles shifted. It's still shite though :)
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I played the Wii yesterday at a friends place.
It's not really gaming in the traditional sense it's all waggling for mums, kids & grannies. I was so pleased I hadn't succumbed to the fad & bought 1. Well done to Nintendo though as they are raking it in but the games i played were the gaming equivalent of a stick of rock, sweet but good only for 5 minutes. For proper games it has to be the 360 or PS3. |
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Pac-man ate my wife
24/04/08 @ 11:06
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/briefly watches the weeping trolls post their usual shite
/goes back to playing Mario Kart, No More Heroes, PES 2008, Zack & Wiki and Mario Galaxy |
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CaptainScarlet
24/04/08 @ 11:18
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"For proper games it has to be the 360 or PS3."
Lol, there must be a special definition online somewhere that states what counts as a proper game :) At the moment my time is completely taken up with Kart and Metroid on the Wii. My 360 is just a streaming media slave at the moment.
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Pac-man ate my wife
24/04/08 @ 11:19
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/plays solitaire
HA! TAKE THAT! Don't mess with me boy... /plays minesweeper |
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Ok so this doesn't turn into another 200 page comment nightmare (because sales figures are so much more interesting than, y'know, actual games), let me wrap things up:
Lolwiihasnogameslolonlygirlsandgranniesplaythisshitlol360has mansgameslikehalolol123123131231313. Gimmicklol. Okay, now we can all move on! |
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Fantards indeed, they've conveniently glossed over the fact it has the greatest football game made for over a decade, a wonderfully simple online gaming model that works almost perfectly (see Mario Kart) amongst plenty of other great titles.
I'm literally struggling to keep up only having 5-10 hours per week to put into it. |
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BadBoyBonner
24/04/08 @ 12:03
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Just goes to show how open the masses are to the reception of innovation if done right.
The boundary is not if all humans like to play (clearly we do otherwise entertainment wouldn't exist) but how easily, and thus instinctively, people are allowed to interface and interact with that fun or virtual world. Wait until voice recognition and AI parsers are able to hold coherent conversations - expect most females to suddenly become massive RPG fans and sales to rocket. In less than 10 years, not being able to talk to your computer will no doubt feel as alien as being able to talk to it now is. |
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Well done, those are truely amazing numbers, a lot of happy shareholders I bet. Looking to the future, whats next for Ninty? Bankruptcy/take over from Microsoft at some point during the next hardware cycle springs to mind. You can only catch the kids/mums/grannies with a gimmick once, somehow I do not think they will buy Wii2, unless Ninty can come up with another cheap toy. I just hope this doesnt mean the next iteration of the PS3/X360 will be dumbed down as well.
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What's to say these people see it as a gimmick? All the 'ultra-casual' Wii owners at work (and there are many) still play them almost every day, and half of them have had one for at least a year. Nintendo keep adding new 'gimmicks' (Wii Fit Board, Mario Kart + Wheel) which keep people coming back for more...and all this when most 3rd parties still haven't taken the Wii remotely seriously.
The DS had a similar start but has gone from strength to strength, why would we need a Wii 2 anytime soon? Graphics clearly don't matter that much, so any major update seems pointless in light of the current success.
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"And what surprises me is that you're surprised that most people around here appear to be surprised. I think?"
I don't know, you're the one who thinks it... ;) But this news shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone a bit more intelligent than the average fanboy and with a bit of interest in video games... |
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Excellent. After waggle and wheel traditional controls feel just silly and constrained.
It's very interesting to see how the console wars play out. I guess the industry as a whole keeps growing... but the most critical forms of innovation keep coming from the traditional source. Not to downplay stuff like XBOX Live. |
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cyber_nicco
24/04/08 @ 16:27
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Yes, and cars with automatic transmissions outsell ones with manuals in many demographics. Does that make them better?
I chose the transmission analogy very, very carefully...
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I work in an Asda delivery warehouse.Some how we have a Wii demo pod in this little internet room we have.
You would be amazed how popular it is,all its running is Wii sports. Some of the blokes playing this you would never dream of going near a console.And loads have brought a Wii for home use now. Diss the Wii all you like but Nintendo have done their homework on who they are trying to attract with this and they are buying it |
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"They're talking to MS and Sony. Europe better do a console, other we will always be puppets."
I think you might have pressed a button there. N-Gage is the closest we have to a games specific hardware created in Europe, and I honestly believe we can do better than that. Where's Philips, Thomson and Braun when you need them? |
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Although it has to be said that there are some very very good automatic transmissions out there now, the latest Evo details them extensively and there aren't many supercars without a well thought-out auto box these days. Although technically I guess they are semi-automatic, where does that come into it?
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