According to Enterbrain/Famitsu, Wii reaches 6m mark in Japan. Also Wii Fit reaches 2m which means 1 in every 3 Wii owners has purchased Wii Fit.
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According to the official Nintendo Korea site, the Wii will launch in Korea on April 26, 2008, almost a year and a half after the system was first released. The Wii will cost 220,000 Korean won. GoNintendo also reports that eight games will be available at launch, including Wii Sports (system sold by itself), Wii Play, Super Swing Golf 2 and Zack and Wiki.
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"If you're still under the impression that consumers are only buying Nintendo's new console for Wii Sports, perhaps the latest software to hardware tie ratio numbers from the NPD Group will change your mind. According to the software data tracking service, consumers purchased 8.11 games for every Wii console sold in December. This relates to 7.76 games for every Xbox 360 sold during the month and 5.04 games for every PlayStation 3 purchased in the same time frame."
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"In all, the system sold 5,019,337 units from its launch on December 2, 2006 to January 20, 2008. This figure comes from Enterbrain, Famitsu's publisher and also a major game industry sales tracking firm. It took the Wii sixty weeks to reach the five million mark. While a bit behind the DS's fifty-six week record, the Wii did beat the PlayStation 2's sixty-six weeks. Also, four Wii titles have topped the one million mark in Japan."
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It is mostly Japanese numbers, but may still offer some insight. In Japan: 774,123 Wiis, 232,421 PS3s, 38,994 Xbox 360s.
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In a recent interview with UK's Guardian Unlimited, Will Wright has finally confirmed that a version of Spore is being developed for the Wii. And despite the different controls, Wright seems to like working on the platform.
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We've known that Nintendo would be bundling a single Wii Wheel in with the forthcoming Mario Kart Wii title, but now it seems that folks riding shotgun (or riding your tail) can grab one of their own. According to a recently released flyer from GameStop, extra Wheels -- should the plethora of steering apparatuses already out there not suffice -- will be sold for a cool $14.99 each.
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Reggie:"We're working very hard to make sure that consumers are satisfied this holiday, but I can't guarantee that we're going to meet demand. As a matter of fact, I can tell you on the record that we won't,"..."What I can tell you is that typically, our inventory is lasting a day... I don't think we will know when supply crosses with demand until after the holiday season," ... "The issue is not a lack of production. The issue is we went in with a curve that was aggressive, but the demand has been substantially more than that. And the ability to ramp up production and to sustain it is not a switch that you flick on,"
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In this article, Activision formally affirms of the stronger game development support they would give the Wii as compared to their support for the Gamecube. They do not believe that 3rd parties will not prosper on the Wii and they think that they're "in the best position and probably even in a better position than the first-party to leverage [their] development dollars."
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Analysts predict Wii to take the lead in 2007
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