December 2009 NPD Report: Nintendo wins big in weak economy

Sales not as great as 2008 but who’s complaining?

New Super Mario first week sales soar in Japan

Mario’s 2D Wii debut in the East arrived with open arms and open wallets.

Wii & DS on top for October sales

Nintendo’s handheld and console take the top spots heading into Holiday season.

Wii software sales dropping, still beating 360/PS3

Gamasutra released some console software sales figures from NPD Group. Wii is doing good, but has grown stagnant while 360/PS3 figures still climb.

Nintendo denies a Wii price cut

It appears Nintendo is either being sneaky as usual in their denial of a Wii price cut, or they’re really telling the truth this time.  [...]

DSi takes the 3 month sales crown

Being the third iteration of a handheld can be rough, just ask the Micro, but that hasn’t stopped the DSi from continuing Nintendo’s assault on [...]

Wii Sports Resort heats up summer sales in US

Maybe it was Wii Sports sellng more copies than any game in the history of games, or perhaps it was Resort moving crazy amounts of [...]

DSi eclipses 3 million in Japan

It should come as no surprise that the DSi has been successful in Japan, what is surprising is that there are still people in Japan [...]

Wii Sports Resort becomes third fastest selling Wii game

In the first week or sales, Nintendo’s sequel to the best selling game in the history of the world has already unsurprisingly sold boat loads. [...]

Chinatown Wars and Mad World both underperform in March

Just as suspected, the two big M rated titles released last month for the DS and Wii didn’t exactly fly off shelves. GTA: Chinatown Wars [...]

Nintendo confirms: 50 million Wii, 100 million DS units shipped worldwide

In case you weren’t convinced, Nintendo wanted to hammer home the fact that the Wii and Nintendo DS are the two fastest selling game consoles [...]

Wii and DS games (not surprisingly) top Japanese charts for 2008

The 30 top-selling games in Japan for this past year are listed after the break. As you’d expect in a country where you can’t walk [...]

Screen Digest says 2009 will be tricky for Wii; PS3 to lead the way

2009 will be Sony’s year, supposedly. Screen Digest has noted that the general decline in Japanese Wii sales during the past two months means that [...]

We Ski crosses the million mark

I remember checking out the line for Wii Fit at the local Best Buy (I was in the area buying midnight tickets to Kingdom of [...]

DSi sells over one million since Japanese launch

Despite just having launched on November 1st, Nintendo’s brand spanking new DSi handheld has already passed the million mark in sales. Enterbrain figures place the [...]

Wii sells 1 million in US in a single week?

I must say, after the two-million-plus sales of the Wii last month, this little bit of news wouldn’t surprise me if it were true. It’s [...]

Wii surpasses 7 million sales mark in Japan

According to the latest sales data from Enterbrain, the Wii has sold 7,024,239 units from its December 2, 2006 launch through this past Sunday, November [...]

Nintendo responds to October NPD Report

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 [...]

Pokemon Platinum sales near one million, in two days

Since the game was available to Japanese gamers mere days ago, the title has moved 967,675 units. Even though Platinum is the third iteration of the [...]

Okami Wii sees lackluster sales

Capcom released a pile of financial results and sales figures, and hidden somewhere in the back, behind the relish and bottle of v8, were the [...]