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Monday January 21, 2008 11:12 am

It Was a Great Holiday for Gaming Companies




WiiThe statistics are in and apparently it was a Nintendo Christmas. Approximately 1.4 million of the Wii console systems found their way down chimneys in December, according to a report by the NPD Group. About 2.5 million DS also were purchased. The accomplishment allowed the entire video gaming industry to over $17.9 billion in sales, 43% higher than last year. Microsoft sold nearly 1.3 million Xbox 360s and Sony managed to sell about 800,000 PS3s. As for games statistics, “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock” and “Call of Duty 4” each sold over 2 million copies in December alone.


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well i guess all those X boxes where sold some place else other than the us because i work at toys R us and we hardly sold any of them, now the Wii, we had people sleeping outside the store to grab them in the morning when we reopen


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