When the Wii’s were in stock this past holiday season Amazon.com sold them at a rate of 17 Wii’s per second. The Wii one of the best selling items this past holiday season, this obviously was no surprise to anyone who tried to purchase one but WOW 17 Wii’s per second.. Thats amazing…
A new report from England shows that Nintendo Wii burned 51 % more calories then using a Xbox game, which is good news. Unfortunately after playing the Wii for an hour a gamer can expect to burn 60 calories; which as the report states amounts to a quarter Mars bar or for you McDonald fan’s only 9 hours to burn off a 540 calorie Big Mac.
Well I guess my future career as a Wii Personal Workout trainer is just never going to pan out. So video games is not more beneficial then working out or doing some sort of out door activity but it’s still better than nothing. I wonder if the Wii Fit will cause people to burn even more calories? Just have to wait till that study is completed.
MDB Capital a company that monitors web activity has stated that Nintendo could have sold over $1.3 billion worth of Nintendo Wii’s had they had enough Wii’s in supply… Ouch! That’ll burn ya! Some of these sales have gone to the other game systems such as the Playstation 2, Playstation 3 and X box 360, many of those sales may never turn into Wii sales.
Although there are many conspiracy theorists out there who believe that Nintendo did this purposely but I find it hard to believe that they would risk losing $1.3 billion dollars.
So this mistake really hurt Nintendo as well as consumers who really wanted to purchase a Wii.
Its not impossible to find a Wii, it just might take a lot of effort. In England people are having such a hard time finding a NIntendo Wii that they are taking the Chunnel over to France to purchase their Wii’s. Apparently there are many in stock there.. So if you live out that way take a little drive or see if one of your buddies are going out that way.
Now in the US its become increasingly harder to find them anywhere, but (more…)
A recently released report showed that December 6th was the heaviest online spending day ever! Online sales are up 28% from a year ago which is a trend that I’m sure we will see for the next few years as people become even more comfortable shopping online. What I found interesting was that there were (more…)
