reuters.com - 12/8/2008
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KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd said sales of its Wii game console more than doubled during the week of Thanksgiving in the United States, apparently defying the retail gloom of the global economic crisis. President Satoru Iwata told Reuters in an interview that Wii sales more than ...
reuters.com - 12/7/2008
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reuters.com —
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii
has emerged as one of the few hot products...
this holiday season, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc will offer "tens of thousands" of the hard-to-get video game consoles on its website starting on Monday. Walmart.com ...
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technology.timesonline.co.uk - 12/10/2008
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Nintendo, the Japanese video games company that brought
us Donkey Kong and Mario the Plumber , is...
to announce a deal with the publisher HarperCollins today to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles. The 100 ...
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Mario makes way for Shakespeare on Nintendo DS in ...
walmart.com - 12/8/2008
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walmart.com —
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like no other, where the player is more connecte From $249.24 Availability: Online Not Sold In Stores Nintendo Wii Value Bundle ...
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Nintendo Sold 800K Wiis In The US Last Week [Satoru Iwata]
Kotaku —
... the number of Wiis sold during the same week the year prior, according to Reuters. "Fortunately for us a lot of shoppers put our products at the top of their list," Iwata said. He then chuckled. On top of that, Iwata says that Nintendo DS sales were also up, some 20 percent over the period last year. We'd think it's safe to say that November like October, September, August, etc. will belong to Nintendo. Whatever the final outcome, this Thursday's NPD report will be fascinating . Nintendo says Wii, DS sales strong [Reuters]
Did Wii outsell Xbox 2:1 over crucial week?
The Microsoft Blog —
... that the Xbox 360 outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 by an astonishing 3:1 ratio over Thanksgiving weekend. Nintendo, though, seems to have bested the Xbox 360 by at least a 2:1 ratio. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told Reuters in an interview that Nintendo sold 800,000 Wiis during all of Thanksgiving week, compared to 350,000 Wiis during the same period a year ago. In its own announcement, Microsoft did not say exactly how many Xbox 360s it had sold during Thanksgiving week, only saying that sales were up roughly 25 percent, compared to the same Thanksgiving weekend last year. ...
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Ltd's Wii has emerged as one of the few hot products this holiday season, and
Wal-Mart Stores Inc will offer "tens of thousands" of the hard-to-get video game
consoles on its ...
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