Following the October report from the NPD Group, Nintendo sent out their routine press release before returning to business as usual. Anything worth freaking out about? Not really. Anything worth mentioning? Plenty!

The Wii’s 800,000+ in the US last month brought Wii totals in the country to 13.35 million units sold, while the nearly half a million DS Lite and Nintendo DS units sold lifted the platform to over 23 million units sold in the States. Wii Fit, which also sold almost half a million last month, saw its total climb to 2.83 million copies sold. More after the break!

WII AND NINTENDO DS TOP OCTOBER U.S. SALES

Nov. 13, 2008

Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ topped the U.S. sales charts and combined to sell more than 1.29 million units in October. Nintendo sold 803,210 Wii consoles and 491,176 Nintendo DS systems in October, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. These figures bring the lifetime U.S. sales for Wii to more than 13.35 million and Nintendo DS to more than 23.02 million, extending their leads as the best-selling hardware of this generation.

Nintendo’s total hardware unit sales represent a 25.7 percent increase over October 2007. They also account for 59.3 percent of the industry’s total hardware unit sales.

Wii Fit™, the game that combines fun and fitness, sold nearly half a million copies in the United States in October, six months after it launched. The lifetime U.S. sales for Wii Fit now total more than 2.83 million.

“Nintendo provides consumers with the best value not only among video games, but also among most entertainment options,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Nintendo also provides an incomparable range of experiences that everyone can enjoy, whether you’ve been playing for years or are just getting into video games.”

Three games made for Nintendo systems placed in the top five best-selling games of the month, including Wii Fit™ at No. 2 with 487,234 copies sold, Mario Kart Wii™ at No. 4 with 289,869 copies sold and Wii Play™ at No. 5 with 281,844 copies sold.

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