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Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Million
Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Million
Kotaku - July 30, 2008
Submitted by Animate (241) at 12:46PM PST on July 30, 2008
While Wii Fit's been a media darling, and has captured Nintendo a ton of good press with morning television crowd, it's sold "only" 3.42 million units worldwide in Quarter 1 of Fiscal Year 2009 [Q1FY09 sales # (Apr - June 08)]. That's a little over half of what Mario Kart Wii's managed, with the plastic-wheel-packing GameCube update managing to sell 6.42 million units worldwide.
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1Just_Ben posted on Mario Kart (Wii) at 12:20AM PST on August 1, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Millionbids
2Animate posted on Mario Kart (Wii) at 9:27PM PST on July 31, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Millionbids
1lstormy10 posted on Mario Kart (Wii) at 8:24PM PST on July 31, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Million@apujanata,
It looks as though you have the numbers sorted out (+1 upbid). I was trying to figure out how the Wii Fit LTD was only 3.42 million when the Japan and U.S. numbers alone adding up to approximately that number. I would say that by sometime in August at the latest that Wii Fit should hit 5 million worldwide.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 294 ]bids
2apujanata posted on Mario Kart (Wii) at 7:33PM PST on July 31, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Million@Joe80,
"3.42 million units worldwide since launch"
Kotaku's sentence clearly showed that it refer to Wii Fit's LTD.
In Japan alone, Wii Fit's LTD is around 2.3 Million by end of June. In UK, Wii Fit is 300K+ by end of May 2008, so we can assume at least 1 Million LTD in Europe by end of June. Combined with US's 1 Million unit by June NPD, Wii Fit's LTD should be at least 4.3 Million.
I think Kotaku just interpret incorrectly Nintendo's statement :
"A total of 3.42 million units of Wii Fit were sold worldwide"
as LTD, while Nintendo meant it as Q1FY09 sales # (Apr - June 08).[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
1Animate posted on Mario Kart (Wii) at 11:19AM PST on July 31, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Million@Just_Ben,
I believe they are referring to Wii Fit's launch, not Wii's launch.[ Oracle ] [ Level 26 ] [ Rank: 241 ]bids
1Just_Ben posted on Mario Kart (Wii) at 11:32PM PST on July 30, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 Millionbids
16Animate posted on Mario Kart (Wii) at 12:46PM PST on July 30, 2008. Article: Nintendo: Has sold 6.42 Million, Wii Fit 3.42 MillionWhile Wii Fit's been a media darling, and has captured Nintendo a ton of good press with morning television crowd, it's sold "only" 3.42 million units worldwide in Quarter 1 of Fiscal Year 2009 [Q1FY09 sales # (Apr - June 08)]. That's a little over half of what Mario Kart Wii's managed, with the plastic-wheel-packing GameCube update managing to sell 6.42 million units worldwide.[ Oracle ] [ Level 26 ] [ Rank: 241 ]
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