Nintendo Says That More Than 1.5 Million Nintendo Wii's, Nintendo DS, And Nintendo DSi Were Sold In The Thanksgiving Week In The USA

Nintendo Has Announced that during the Thanksgiving weekend in the USA 1.5 Million Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo DSi videogame systems were sold.

Out Of This, 550,000 Were Nintendo Wii Units and over 1 Million were Nintendo DS and DSi Systems. Nintendo have announced that this number of portable systems sold beats a previous Nintendo record set by the Game Boy Advance in 2002.

Nintendo has released a new photograph from this Thanksgiving weekend sales and provided a caption for it.


Kara L., 27, and boyfriend Sean G., 34, of Los Angeles, encourage Sean's mom Carole G., 65, of Austin, as she breaks a sweat with the Obstacle Course game on Wii Fit Plus during a Black Friday shopping excursion at Westfield Culver City in Culver City, Calif. on Nov. 27, 2009. Nintendo is traveling to more than 35 malls across the country to show off the latest video games for Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, with titles for all generations. (Photo by Nintendo, Bob Riha, Jr.)

Press Release

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 30, 2009 – Nintendo's internal tracking numbers show that the company sold more than 1.5 million Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ video game systems combined in the United States during Thanksgiving Week. That works out to more than 150 Nintendo systems sold every minute continuously for the week – or more than 2.5 every second.

Nintendo estimates that during the week:
more than 550,000 Wii home consoles sold, demonstrating that consumers nationwide have responded to the new suggested retail price of $199.99.
more than 1 million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi portable systems sold. This number surpasses the all-time hand-held hardware sales record set by Game Boy™ Advance during Thanksgiving Week 2002.
"Holiday shoppers are finding value in our products' prices, and through a game-play experience that is unique to Nintendo," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.

Note that the internal Nintendo of America numbers referenced in this release represent sales from Sunday, Nov. 22, through Saturday, Nov. 28.

For more information about Nintendo games and systems, visit www.nintendo.com.

About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.2 billion video games and more than 535 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.nintendo.com.