Nintendo sells 6 million Wii, 20 million DS units in Europe

[Shrygue]

via Games Industry


Nintendo Europe has revealed sales of the Wii and DS in the region have reached over six million and 20 million units, respectively.

First-party software sales in the region have also reached impressive figures, with four Wii titles sailing past one million units sold.

Wii Play has sold 2.3 million units, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 1.3 million units, Mario Party 8 one million units and Super Mario Galaxy 1.3 million units.

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training; How Old is Your Brain? has now sold over 5 million units in Europe, while its sequel More Brain Training has clocked up 2.8 million units. However, the top-seller is the Nintendogs series, which has sold over 8 million units in the region.

New titles for Europe in 2008 include Wii Fit, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii, and Professor Kageyama's Maths Training: The Hundred Cell Calculation Method for the DS.

Earlier today, Nintendo announced nine month profits to December 31 of JPY 258.93 billion (USD 2.43bn/EUR 1.66bn), almost double that of the year previously.

[wiggy fuzz]

bloody hell... nintendo can do no wrong, it seems. great news, but what'll happen in the future? will their next console ever be as popular?

[sappo]

Wii for the Wiin!

[ICE]

They're success is largly based on sales to "non-gamers". These sales gave them success that caused more and more games to be made as well as 3rd party publishers to jump over. Sorta like a domino effect.

Now that Ninty has established itself among people who werent gamers I find it hard to believe they're success wont continue. These new gamers arent going to shy away from the comfortable and reliable Ninty easily. As long as the new base of gamers they have found remains, and I believe it will, the same domino effect will keep rolling and Ninty will keep roling... In the money..