Nintendo Sells Nearly 6 Million Wiis April 27, 2007
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It’s all champagne and caviar at Nintendo this week, following astronomical results. Hard to believe they could actually have been better, but they could if only there had been a little more Wii to go around. .
In five months Nintendo has managed to ship 5.84 million Wiis [just short of its 6m goal but still mental]. Even despite the fact that it’s half the price of the PS3, it shows that Sony’s sales of under 2 million PS3s in roughly the same timeframe points to some trouble. Check the latest console sales stats - at least for the US - here.
Still, Nintendo could have sold a lot more if its production set-up had been better. Nintendo has even predicted that it will hit 20 million Wiis sold by this time in 2008. That’s a phenomenal number, if it manages to pull it off. In fact, it really needs to sort out that chronic supply problem.
The company has been producing one million units a months but admitted that it’s along way off fulfilling demand. Even with new plans to produce 14 million units this year, it’s warning that it will not be enough.-Martin Lynch
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Anyone know if its possible to change the language setting on a Japanese Wii to English? I cant find the option in my Japanese Wii system settings anywhere.. maybe its not possible?