Wii sales continue to defy gravity as gaming industry grows 10 percent in February
We suppose the continuing upward trend in the video game industry shouldn’t be a surprise to us anymore but we can’t help it… Will someone tell these guys about the recession? They’re clearly still in the dark here because console and game sales are still through the roof — climbing 10% over January to $733.5 million — while nearly every other industry is on the brink of collapsing. But forget all that for the time being; February was yet another month that saw gaming sales soar further into the black. Nintendo lead the console pack of course, pushing out 753,000 units according to the NPD Group’s numbers — 73,000 more than it sold in January. Sheesh. There is a bit of a twist in this month’s numbers however: The top selling game of the month actually wasn’t a Wii title! You guessed it, Street Fighter IV topped game title sales with 849,000 copies combined (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) and Wii Fit slipped into the number two slot with 644,000 copies sold. Bottom line: if you’re getting ready to graduate high school in the next few months and head off to college, we hope you picked a school with good CS/digital entertainment/etc programs.
maybe it’s because all the people who lost jobs need something take up all that extra free time
I picked the wrong field to work in… I enjoy playing sf 4
“we hope you picked a school with good CS/digital entertainment/etc programs.”
what’s CS? I’m still in college so I can change my majors
. Is that Computer Science?
I bought a Wii about 6 months and haven’t gotten much use out of the $400 console because PC games tend to be cheaper and offer more play-to-price ratio than Nintendo’s bluetooth wonder.
^^^thats because you have no friends…the wii is a party game…not for jerking off to porn like your pc
@ EraserXIV
lol that’s probably true !
Haven’t touched my Wii for close to a year (and counting)
If Nintendo Inc. was a little more aggressive and made the Wii with real processing power and 1080p output they could have cut into MS’s 360 sales and totally destroyed Sony’s PS3.
Instead they chose to ignore the current gaming trends and made a phenomenal control scheme on top of old tech.
EVERY game I’ve played on my 360 would have been better with Wii controls.
I don’t think I would want to play ANY 360 FPS using the Wiimote. The Wii’s controls aren’t phenomenal, they are a gimmick that people see once and run out to buy it because of them. It then just ends up sitting and collecting dust after the novelty of Wii Sports wears out after a week.
The wiis controls are great but I wouldn’t say any game. Skate 2 is far better on my 360 and the video quality is far better as well. But when friends and family are over out comes the wii. The wii hits a far larger demographic. Plus Nintendo has tricked parents into thinking there console is more healthy. One more wii plus is it can be softmodded very easily without breaching waranty.