Nintendo Wii: Japanese Wii Sales Slow Down

Recently released hardware sales for June/July show the Wii sitting discontentedly in 3rd place.
Heading the console charts is Sony’s PSP console (56,439) which is closely followed by the Nintendo DS (47,455) and in belated third, the Wii (44,525).
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Nintendo Wii: Nintendo Remains A Dominant Force In America

Eclipsing sales of its rivals, Nintendo’s hardware figures continue to impress and astound.
During the month of May both the Wii and the Ds sat firmly atop of the sales charts selling an astounding 675,089 and 452,608 units respectively. To put these incredible sales records in perspective the Wii held a 63% share of the next-gen [...]

Nintendo Wii: Wii Outsells All Other Systems Combined

Obliterating its so-called ‘competition’, the Nintendo Wii outsold all of its rivals consoles combined during the generally barren month of April.
Holding no prisoners the innovative console successfully shifted 714,000 units last month, in turn destroying the hardware sales amounted for other consoles.
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Nintendo Wii: Has The Popularity Of Grand Theft Auto IV Threatened Wii

Forbes takes an insightful look at the popularity of the recent Grand Theft Auto title and determines whether or not it’ll have any repercussions on Wii hardware sales both now, and in the long run.
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Nintendo Wii: Next Gen Consoles Will Following Wii Pricing Example

 
Billy Pidgeon, IDC analyst has speculated that the next bout of video gaming consoles will learn from Wii.
Pidgeon believes that instead of creating new hardware from the ground up and investing in costly components, hardware manufactures will instead expand on existing hardware much the same as Nintendo did with Wii, in turn leading to much [...]

Nintendo Ds: Japanese Nintendo Ds Hardware Sales Fall

 
Japanese hardware sales figures show a dramatic decline in Nintendo Ds console sales.
During the generally barren month of January sales of the Nintendo Ds plummeted, raising speculation that the Japanese’s obsession with the hand-held could be dwindling.
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Nintendo Wii: Nintendo ‘Wii Hardware Won’t Be Replaced Anytime Soon’

Speaking in an interview with Aussie-Nintendo, Satoru Iwata confidently stated that the lifespan of the Wii won’t be untraditionally short.
Though the console touts an unrivalled control scheme, the hardware within the Wii is drastically underpowered in comparison to its more expensive rivals, leaving numerous naysayers to suspect that the traditional 4 year console lifespan [...]