Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Japan Wii success

Not surprising really but early sales indicate that Wii has been successful with Media-Create and Famitsu data charts saying an almost 90% sellout rate (which is about 350,000 + sales) for the Wii console.
Maybe surprising is how well Zelda and the third party titles sold. WiiSports and Wiiplay sold a healthy ~150,000 each, while Zelda got 3rd place in Wii software sales selling under that number. The third party sales numbers on the other hand are pretty horrendous, with games liek Red Steel pulling in around 10,000 sold, elebits (almost must buy for me) having around 8,000 and shockingly Wing island acheiving only 800 sales. Really poor days for third party developers on the Wii.

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