Amazon Shifts 17 Wiis Per Second January 02, 2008
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I realise that it’s pretty sickening to hear that Amazon was selling Wiis at a rate of 17 per second over the Christmas period elsewhere while most of the UK and Ireland got zilch, but that’s life.
Extrapolate those figures and Amazon sold a staggering 1,020 Wiis a minute, 61,200 an hour and a frightening 1.46m per day. Of course, none of that’s actually true, just a theory because there weren’t that many Wiis out there – anywhere.
Amazon actually said that at peak, the Wiis sold at a rate of 17 per second “when they were in stock”. Not too often then.
Other stats showed that Dec 10th was the busiest day with 5.4m purchases and that 99% of Christmas orders shipped on time. -Martin Lynch
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Considering they were "so hard to get" (I picked one up at Amazon in December), everyone seemed to get a Wii this Christmas.
The only ones to lose out were the retailers flogging the consoles for £180. They should have bundled in a couple of weak titles and hiked the price up £70 long before eBay scrotes like myself got onboard.
By a certain point in December £179 Wiis were all but impossible to get. It's still pretty much that way now if you have a look around online.
We still can't get one anywhere. We managed to get one before x-mas but it was faulty but since returning it . . . nothing.