Top 3 Nintendo wii Bestselling 2007

Nintendo Wii

First released a year ago, the Wii has quickly risen to the top of the very competitive, multi-billion dollar video game console industry.

The console is the direct successor to the Nintendo GameCube and has sold over 13 million units this year.

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY)’s Wii gaming console was a non-contender — an underdog — this time last year. The gaming console with the funny name was set to launch with little fanfare compared to the Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 3 or Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)’s Xbox 360, launched a year earlier, but the Wii caught eyes because it was priced at only $250, compared to $600 for the PlayStation 3 and $400 for the Xbox 360. But then again, it had inferior graphics and other downgrades. My, my — how customers didn’t care about its competitors’ touted features and other fluff.

Why not, you ask? The Nintendo Wii featured the most innovative and immersive gameplay, regardless of the hi-def video or audio output and inferior graphics. Nintendo figured out that consumers wanted a newer kind of gameplay — not photo-realistic blood and guts. As an aside, they designed the initial games and many others to get game players off those duffs and onto their feet, wildly slinging those Wii-motes through the air — swatting tennis balls, slaying dragons and driving cars. The mass, mainstream consumer loved it, and so the age of Wii was born.
The Wii outsold both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 almost every month this year, much to the surprise (and delight) of Nintendo, and much to the surprise (and chagrin) of both Microsoft and Sony. Sony’s PlayStation 3 was pretty much considered a bomb (probably due to the used-car price) back when Microsoft kept racking up Xbox 360 sales. But nothing could touch the Wii’s sales prowess in 2007.

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