3.19 million Wiis sold

Wii News | With 1.5 million VC titles downloaded as well.

Nintendo today announced via a press release that 3.19 million Wii consoles were sold during 2006.

Previously, Nintendo had predicted it would sell 4 million during the same period but were quick to clarify that they had in fact produced that amount and were still in the process of shipping the remainder to stores. They still hold plans to ship 6 million by the end of this financial year (end of March).

Wanting to boast over more figures, they revealed that more than 1.4 million Wii units had been taken online since launch with more than 1.5 million Virtual Console titles downloaded. Not to be outdone by their cheaper counterparts, there was also confirmation that three Wii titles had sold over 1 million units (we assume a certain Hylian dressed in green is responsible for one of those titles).

As for Wii's little brother, the DS, it was revealed that 13 DS software titles had reached over 1 million units sold during the first nine months of the financial year. 3.5 million unique DS owners had also played using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service.

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52 Comments

InvivnI

6 years ago

It's amazing how Nintendo is suddenly back in the 'cool' circles again. After being shunned last generation it seems to be reliving its glory days. Now lets hope this success isn't a flash in the pan and we see more and better games hitting the system.

Big Pete

6 years ago

3.19 Million? How much had the 360 sold in it's first 6 or so weeks?

David

6 years ago

Big Pete wrote

3.19 Million? How much had the 360 sold in it's first 6 or so weeks?

NPD says 935,000 in the US for Nov+Dec, they shipped 300,000 to Europe in 2005 (all sold you'd imagine) and from what I can find only 58,000 sold in Japan in 2005.

So about 1.29 million. But they were much more supply constrained.

Ellegarden

6 years ago

Shipped or sold, cause all console manufacturing have terrible use of adjectives.

seany

6 years ago

Well done Nintendo. How will Microsoft and Sony respond???

renegadesx

6 years ago

seany wrote

Well done Nintendo. How will Microsoft and Sony respond???

Microsoft will respond with a Microsoft answer, saying Nintendo is a kiddies market and they are an adults market and Microsoft is the leader in the adults market etc etc

Sony I think will blame it on limited unit's even though the US has units they cannot sell and will not admit to the fact that its way to expensive to be popular.

Joseph

6 years ago

Ellegarden wrote

Shipped or sold, cause all console manufacturing have terrible use of adjectives.

Sold. Those figures are more than likely to have increased since then as well.

Spanca

6 years ago

I thought the 3.19 figure was reported a few weeks ago. Deja vu?

BlackMamba

6 years ago

The 2 other million seller titles would be Red Steel and Wii Play.
Wii Play is not out in the US yet but Japan seem to love it and Wii Sports should become a million seller in Japan soon.

Lord Halo Nerd

6 years ago

Hooray and to think I am one of those 3.19 million people

legend166

6 years ago

Wii Play would definately be a million seller in Japan and Europe alone.

This is great news for Nintendo. They'll definately sell 6 million by the end of March I think. That would put them at more than 50% of Xbox 360 sales in just 4 and a half months.

Dare

6 years ago

I don't feel soo bad liking Nintendo now that its something the masses like also

renegadesx

6 years ago

legend166 wrote

I think if they up the number they ship they could sell alot more than 6 million, and surpass Microsoft's "year success of 10 million" by reaching that mark in 6-7 months. Sometime this year the Wii should overtake the 360 and a possible price drop near xmas could give the Wii a strong commanding lead into 2008

admeister

6 years ago

^ You may be right. A price would certainly be an extra push, but it's still a little early for it.

As for the amount of Wiis sold, wow.

I didn't expect the Wii to be quite this popular, well done Nintendo. All they have to do now is release some more good games (soon).

renegadesx

6 years ago

admeister wrote

^ You may be right. A price would certainly be an extra push, but it's still a little early for it.

As for the amount of Wiis sold, wow.

I didn't expect the Wii to be quite this popular, well done Nintendo. All they have to do now is release some more good games (soon).

They are guys, here are the ones I am mostly looking forward to

Excite Truck: After being disappointed with NFS Carbon, GT Pro Series and Monster 4X4, the best racing game on the Wii is Cars :S . We need a really good racer and Excite Truck looks really cool, sort of reminds me of Burnout as far as speed goes, which has me very interested

Elebits/Eledeeds: When a quirky Wii game beats the entire PS3 launch titles for best of show at the Tokyo Game Show, you know you have something good, this seems very addictive and alot of fun to play.

Sonic and the Secret Rings: Sonic certinally looks promising this time around, but so did he on the 360, people that have played it reckons it is alot better and could very well break Sonic's "other systems" curse. Will be intreresting but I will hold my reservations until I play it

Others we do not have dates for but look like they will make it in the first half of 07

Metroid Prime Corruption: game has been ready for a while, now being polished, possibly because they want it to be a Halo killer which is not impossible. FPS's on the Wii fall short presentation wise, but Red Steel handles how I want an FPS to handle on a console.

Mario Galaxy: Mario pretty much is the unofficial king of video games, the fat plummer has defined and re-defined video games on more than one occasion, can he do it again? Time will tell

Super Paper Mario: Mixing a 3D world in with a 2D mario game seems very interesting and I have been waiting forever to hear whats the go, thankfully at least we now know it is a Wii title, but when will it be out in Oz?

Super Swing Golf: A quirky accurate golf game that looks like so much fun, I would rather this over Tiger Woods, even has that guy from Ninja Gaiden playable but there is no confirmation this will even make it here at all. It better be

Super Smash Bros Brawl: Enough Said

WilliamsF1

6 years ago

renegadesx wrote

Super Paper Mario: Mixing a 3D world in with a 2D mario game seems very interesting and I have been waiting forever to hear whats the go, thankfully at least we now know it is a Wii title, but when will it be out in Oz?

That game looks insanly cool. Reminds me of the time I had the Super Nintendo 5-in-1 game & alot of those color scheme's look quite familiar.

Jim Dash

6 years ago

Renegade do you enjoy living a lie, or are you just 'not all there'?

Metroid, Mario and SSB: Brawl have all been confirmed as being realeased in Q3 & 4 this year. And that's without any delays...yet.

Cerebral

6 years ago

renegadesx wrote

Super Swing Golf: A quirky accurate golf game that looks like so much fun, I would rather this over Tiger Woods, even has that guy from Ninja Gaiden playable but there is no confirmation this will even make it here at all. It better be.

Why anyone would pay a hundred bucks for something you can get free on the internet, which has no online play whatsoever (Whereas the PC version does) is beyond me.

B3NBO

6 years ago

The games on this console apart from Zelda are not worth getting as they are a rip off and do not feature online play. When they feature online play the first part games will most likely be worth it..IMO first party titles should be $49.95 and 3rd part $59.95 because of the subpar grafix (even tho zelda looks pretty sweet..) and no online play = barely any replayability. And i dont have ppl over TOO often.

David

6 years ago

Cerebral wrote

Why anyone would pay a hundred bucks for something you can get free on the internet, which has no online play whatsoever (Whereas the PC version does) is beyond me.

Um, because it uses by far the best controller for Golf simulation? Because it's perfectly matched to the platform and is actually a good game?

I'm not planning on buying it, but apparently the swing mechanics are awesome. And it's been getting very respectable reviews, it's 74% on gamerankings.

Cerebral

6 years ago

I have no doubt it's a good game, but swing mechanics aren't worth RRP and no online play. Not by a long shot (pardon the pun).

Even then, the swing mechanincs are still governed by the same power bar we've seen in golf games for years. In this respect, Tiger Woods looks more appealing if EA can nail the swing mechanics on that (and considering they did a fairly good job in Madden, I have high hopes).

0obs

6 years ago

i have to admit its no shock to me that nintendo have sold so many consoles ive never seen so many wii adds during the cricket

seany

6 years ago

I didnt think the cricket was on that long. lol. I have not noticed a Wii ad yet but have not be bothered with the cricket to much this season.

Winter

6 years ago

Pretty Awesome!

Hopefully the user base keeps expanding at a steady rate and attracts some more 3rd party devs.

PS - I read a hands on at ign.com of Tiger Woods 07 on Wii. Controls are shaping up nicely apparently... graphics look like a bit of a Wii-make though.

I hope it has online multi - definate purchase if it does, anyone for a round at pebble beach

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