news.com - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software jumped 73 percent in October, with Nintendo’s Wii console regaining its spot as the top-selling console, industry data showed on Thursday.
Total sales were $1.1 billion, compared with $643 million a year earlier, according to market research firm NPD.
Nintendo sold 519,000 Wiis while Microsoft sold 366,000 Xbox 360 consoles, and Sony Corp sold 121,000 of its PlayStation 3 machines.
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How times change. When the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and ‘Revolution’ were first announced nearly two years ago it was Sony who got the biggest plaudits, Microsoft a close second and what attention Nintendo did garner was mainly shrugs and giggles. Fast forward to June 2007 and the entire picture has reversed (which, ironically, means the Xbox 360 stays the same).
It took a while, but someone has finally discovered the perfect way in which to capitalize on that string of Wii-related tragedies that we reported on, a few months back. Sure, there are plenty of more rational options for protecting your beloved flat screen from a flying Wiimote, such as stronger straps, or even, you know, restraint, but why employee those boring methods, when you can simply slip a big, plastic guard over your bigscreen LCD?
Linsey Fryatt is based in London and writes for stuff.tv - the website of the magazine of the gadget. Not many UK folks have a Wii, what with all 50,000 selling out on day one (last Friday). But I guess if you work for one of the leading game console review publications, you’ll have a few of these kicking around. And so it is that Linsey got in touch. In her own words:
