Nintendo Wins

[A Black Falcon]

First place worldwide, perhaps even the first to 10 million. NeoGAF and VG Chartz agree (amazing, that!)...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183462
http://www.vgchartz.com/

Microsoft must be even sadder now about how much their failure in Japan is hurting them.

[N-Man]

Sweet nerdy vengeance.

[Great Rumbler]

Back on top, baby.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, it's been quite a while... :)

[EdenMaster]

Getting on top is one thing. Staying there is another. Victories dont mean a thing if they don't last.

Great news all the same, though :). I've just seen Nintendo make big initial pushes only to peter out a year or two into the gen. I hope and pray they use the momentum and keep it, but time will tell...

[Great Rumbler]

Getting on top is one thing. Staying there is another. Victories dont mean a thing if they don't last.

Great news all the same, though :). I've just seen Nintendo make big initial pushes only to peter out a year or two into the gen. I hope and pray they use the momentum and keep it, but time will tell...

Even if things change in America, which they probably won't, Japan will be more than enough to keep Nintendo on top. And the Xbox360 is doing mediocre at best in Europe.

And Nintendo hasn't made a push like this since the SNES, at least not in the home console market.

[DMiller]

How is Wii Sports in the Top 5 for American sales? Is there a Wii bundle that doesn't include the game?

Anyway, I am still amazed how well Nintendo's strategy has played out so far. When they first started talked about how the videogame industry was in trouble I think everyone thought they were nuts, but they've certainly proved everybody wrong.

[Great Rumbler]

How is Wii Sports in the Top 5 for American sales? Is there a Wii bundle that doesn't include the game?

Anyway, I am still amazed how well Nintendo's strategy has played out so far. When they first started talked about how the videogame industry was in trouble I think everyone thought they were nuts, but they've certainly proved everybody wrong.

Don't think too hard about anything that VGChartz does.

Nintendo is one of the smartest companies in the videogame industry, or maybe in any industry. Even when they fail, they still post a profit; and when they succeed, they succeed with a brilliance that is magnificent to look at.

[A Black Falcon]

And Nintendo hasn't made a push like this since the SNES, at least not in the home console market.

If the Wii is actually successful in all three regions long-term, as it has been so far (and it sure looks like it will be), it could easily beat the SNES, which didn't win Europe and only won in the US very late in the generation...

Don't think too hard about anything that VGChartz does.

Still, it's not like we have any free alternatives to a lot of the stuff they have, even if it's not always completely accurate...

Anyway, I am still amazed how well Nintendo's strategy has played out so far. When they first started talked about how the videogame industry was in trouble I think everyone thought they were nuts, but they've certainly proved everybody wrong.

The industry was in a lot more trouble in Japan than in the US (or Europe), definitely. And I don't know if their US/Europe success is really finding a new market yet, with the permanent supply shortage... even so, it does definitely vindicate their case.