I know — the above image is getting old. But when will it stop being relevant?
Apparently not this year, as Nintendo has reported that last week was a "historic sales" week for the company and its products. With last week’s Black Friday signaling the start of the holiday shopping season, we were a bit critical of Sony touting percentage increases during this obviously booming retail week. Nintendo, however, drops some hard numbers.
According to Nintendo, 653,000 Nintendo DS systems were sold last week, topping a record previously held by the Game Boy Advance (which sold 600,000 units during the same time period in 2005). The Wii also had extremely strong sales, but that’s no surprise. Nintendo moved 350,000 consoles last week, and they point out that it’s reached the 5 million sold mark faster than any other videogame system in history.
If someone would please Photoshop an "It prints money" image with the Wii, we’d really appreciate it. We think we’ll be needing one over the next few years.
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