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21 Jul 2008
Nintendo's Wii has overtaken Microsoft's Xbox 360 to become the best selling games console in the US.
Market research firm NPD Group said that some 666,000 Wii consoles were sold in North America in June, bringing total US sales figures to 10.9 million since its release in November 2006.
The latest figures mean that the Nintendo console is now outselling Microsoft's Xbox 360, which has been on sale a year longer.
Nintendo also appears to be winning on the handheld console front, reporting sales of more than 783,000 units of its DS portable device in the US during June amounting to total sales of 20.8 million units.
The video games industry continues to defy the credit crunch, generating $8.3bn in sales in the US alone for the first half of 2008, up 36 per cent on the same period in 2007.
Meanwhile a new study from research firm GfK NOP suggests that 83 per cent of respondents to a survey believe that the Wii improves family cohesion.
By contrast only 52 per cent think that the PlayStation 3 fosters family interaction, while 49 per cent said that the Xbox 360 improved family togetherness.
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Nintendo read your mind!
Has anybody read about nintendos next development? Well first we invented the wheel, then we invented peanut butter and just when we thought that it couldn?t get any better Nintendo have developed a radical and rather unsettling new technology that can only be described as a... thought reading thingy. It actually reads your thoughts through a process known as electro-encephalography, as I am sure you are all aware. This process will allow a player to spin, push, pull, and lift objects on a computer monitor, simply by thinking and they say that the first game is expected to be developed by the end of the year!!! Crazy stuff! Dan Sargent
Posted by: dan sargent 22 Jul 2008
... and what's your point exactly?
I bet more loaves of bread have been sold than 360's too, and the comparison is about as apt. The Wii is a 7th generation gaming console in the same way that a Lamborghini(PS/3), a Porsche(X360), and a Fiat(Wii) are all car manufacturers and comparing the quantity of sales for those three things, is just as rational as the one made in this article.
Posted by: bleus 21 Jul 2008