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Behold what the Wii can do when it's actually available to shoppers. During last year's Thanksgiving holiday week, the console shifted 350,000 units in the U.S., even though shortages were pretty major at the time. With more Wiis in stores this year, that number jumped to 800,000. In a single freakin' week. To put that in perspective, Nintendo sold 803,000 Wiis in the whole of October. Italics. Yikes.

Satoru Iwata broke the happy news in an interview with Reuters, adding that "When the economy is strong, people tend to buy three things from the top of their wishlist. But when things are bad, people often buy only the first thing on their list. Fortunately for us a lot of shoppers put our products at the top of their list." That's a pretty sizeable "nyah!" to the competition.

[Via Joystiq]

Wii serious business during Thanksgiving week originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Even though the Wii reigned supreme on eBay, other retailer sites saw crazy demand for Nintendo's fitness package, Wii Fit. For major retail site Amazon.com, the Wii and Wii Fit were the top-selling video game items throughout the day on Friday. On eBay-owned Shopping.com, the top searches were for Wii Fit and the Nintendo Wii. And during a season that is expected to generate $29 billion, that's a lot of green for Nintendo.

Any of you snag a Wii or Wii Fit to gift someone this holiday season?


[Via Gamasutra]

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If you're looking to get something for that Wii gamer this year, there's plenty of deals going down right now as part of Cyber Monday, the online equivalent to Black Friday. Notable sales around the net include Okami for only $20 at Amazon, Tomb Raider: Underworld for $30 and $10 off Shaun White Snowboarding at Gamestop, Umbrella Chronicles for $25 at Toys R Us (along with a bunch of other discounted titles) and some specific Wii bundles at Buy.com.

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Best of Cyber Monday deals: Wii originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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eBay issued a press release touting the rush of activity on their online auction site last Friday, in which they celebrated the success of consumer electronics auctions. The press release noted the items for which more people searched eBay than any other, and our favorite console topped the list. The Wii was the most-searched item across all of eBay on Black Friday, and 3,171 of those searchers paid too much for it (an average price of $349) by buying on eBay.

The second most-searched item was probably picked up by most of the same people -- Wii Fit sold 1,059 units at an average $140 price. Congratulations to everyone who "won" one of these items, we guess! Although it's kind of sad to think of all those people either getting rid of their Wiis or grabbing them from stores for the express purpose of eBay markup.

[Via GamesIndustry.biz]

Wii was most desired eBay item on Black Friday originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. My jeans might not fit today, but all the turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, stuffing I engulfed was well worth the pounds. Of course, the big story in the world of video games isn’t about Thanksgiving but the day after.

All kinds of retail stores had insane electronics sales for the day known as ‘Black Friday’. The deals being exceptionally good this year because of items being overstocked. Mostly due to our tough economic times. This of course leads to massive crowds, and people creating herds running through stores (I like to think of the Wildabeast scene from Lion King), trying to be the first to grab that special item they’ve been salivating over.

This year the idea of Black Friday craziness was taken to a whole new level. One Wal-Mart worker was killed after being trampled by a mob of shoppers looking to get into the retail store when it opened. There was a shooting that occured at a Toys-R-Us, though according to reports it wasn’t over anything consumer related. But still, does that even matter?

My Black Friday favorite this year comes in video form though. This video is taken of shoppers trying to grab at the Guitar Hero/Xbox 360 bundle. Something about actually being able to see it, takes it to a whole new level. I like the guy towards the end with the hat on, running towards the camera looking like he will forearm anyone that gets in his way.

So, did anyone go out and join in on the Black Friday craziness this year? If so, please share any and all stories. Even if you were the one doing the pushing and shoving.