Nintendo Has Sold More than 65 Million Wii Remotes in US
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Since the launch of the Wii in late 2006, Nintendo has sold more than 65.3 million Wiimotes in the US alone. That’s more than the population of the United Kingdom, Italy, and South Korea. That number breaks down to around 46,000 Wiimotes sold a day since the console’s release.
That’s a gentle reminder from the folks at Nintendo about just how well its console is doing. The reminder, of course, comes in the wake of new motion controllers from Sony and Microsoft–the Move and Kinect for Xbox 360, respectively.
The numbers themselves are courtesy of NPD. 30.41 of those controllers have been sold bundled with the Wii itself. 18.56 million white Wiimotes, 2.44 million black versions, 467,500 pink versions, and 465,200 blue versions have been sold by themselves. 12.92 million have been sold with copies of Wii Play.
Nintendo has also moved 52.9 million Wii Nunchuks.
A new version of the Wii Remote–the Wii Remote Plus–begins shipping on November 7th. The device has built-in Wii MotionPlus and promises more precise control.
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