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newsonablog (Feedburner) | by Marcus Lai | Sat, Jan 30

Sales for Nintendo Co.’s Wii ranked second in Japan in the latest retail figures.

Nintendo last Oct. price cut the Wii to 20,000 yen in Japan.

Nintendo last Sept. price cut the Wii to $199.99 in the U.S.

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Thumbnail Last Week, Ian Mikutel from The Wiire says (in Nintendo's Worldwide Wii Sales Near 70 Million) Nintendo revealed new lifetime sales numbers for Wii worldwide...

On the software side, Nintendo reported sales of over 509 million Wii games. To date, Wii Sports Resort has sold 13.5 million copies, New Super Mario Bros. Wii 10.55 million and Wii Fit Plus 10.16 million.

And Marcus Lai from newsonablog (Feedburner) says (in Nintendo profit declines amid top Wii, DS sales) Nintendo Co. this week reported a profit decline amid top sales of the Wii console and Nintendo DS handheld. Nintendo reported net income of 192.6 billion yen ($2.14 billion) for the nine months ended Dec. 31. By comparison, the company held a 212.52 billion yen the year prior. Revenue fell 23 perc...

And Marcus Lai from newsonablog (Feedburner) says (in Nintendo drops new DLC to Wii, DS) Nintendo Co. this week released a new wave of downloadable content for the Wii console and the Nintendo DSi handheld.

New Virtual Console titles include Ghoul Patrol, a 1-2 player SNES title at 800 Wii Points.

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And Eurogamer says (in News: Resort, Fit Plus, NSMB sell 10m each) Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros. Wii have all sold over 10 million copies in just one financial year - exactly as Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata predicted in August 2009.

Those magnificent numbers, coupled with a Wii price cut - sadly not evident in the UK - helped Nintendo...

And Marcus Lai from newsonablog (Feedburner) says (in Best Buy offers $5 to $10 off Wii titles) Best Buy Co. Inc. this week began offering $5 to $10 off select titles for Nintendo Co.’s Wii in a new member promotion.

Top-sellers include New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Fit Plus, and Wii Sports Resort.

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2 Weeks Ago, Marcus Lai from newsonablog (Feedburner) says (in New Super Mario Bros. Wii serves 10M worldwide) Japan publication Nikkei Net this week said sales of Nintendo Co.’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii has sold more than 10 million units in global sales.

Nintendo last Sept. price cut the Wii to $199.99.

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And Shacknews says (in Nintendo Downloads: UNO, Ghoul Patrol, bittos+) Perennially popular card game UNO headlines this week's batch of North American Wii and DSi downloadable releases, supported by Zombies Ate My Neighbors sequel Ghoul Patrol and Nintendo's feng shui mathematical puzzler Number Battle.

Thumbnail And Vooks says (in New Super Mario Bros. Wii reaches 10 million worldwide) New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been selling very well around the world, with the 10 million breaking down to 3 million copies in Japan, 4.5 million copies in North America and total sales in Europe approaching 3 million copies.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii was the 5th best-selling game in Australia...

3 Weeks Ago, I4U News says (in Wii Outsold Xbox 360 And PS3 Combined In December 2009) The video game hardware sales numbers are in for the holiday shopping month December. Game hardware sales made December a record month for the video game industry reaching $5.5 billion in sales overall according to Reuters The Nintendo Wii sold 3.8 mill...

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