“Nintendo sold 350,000 last week, when many stores were closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, compared to 300,000 the previous week. The only time with higher sales was an eight-day period in late November 2006, when the Wii debuted and more than 600,000 units sold.

The company is on track to sell 17.5 million Wii’s in the fiscal year ending March 31. Last fall, Nintendo executives predicted they would sell 14.5 million Wiis. “

Link: The Associated Press

The Nintendo Wii is selling far beyond my expectations. Since launch; the Wii is out selling the competition nearly 4:1. Keep in mind the PS3 sold roughly 4.6 Million since launch. The 360 sold 10.7 Million roughly since launch and was nearing 7 Million since the Wii’s launch last November; leaving only an  approximate of an 3 Million increase in 360 sales since last November. 

These sales are unbelievebly amazing.

So you’re video gamer and you’re getting tired of not finding the right content in your searches? Well look no further. TrashHalo (what a descriptive name he has) has created on his site MindJunk.org a customized Google search engine tailored for Nintendo gamers. So if you got a blog site or know of some special Nintendo site that you may want to him to index in the search engine, give him a holla. Or if you just want to search for video game content in general, give it a try here.

Everyone’s Nintendo is officially Live in Japan, and with out warning. This trailer channel allows you to not only download to your Wii, but to your DS as well. We can obviously tell Super Mario Galaxy is one of the videos, I wouldn’t doubt on Metroid Prime 3, and many many more. For DS I’m guessing the Brain Age games and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. My only complaint is, bring this to North America soon and don’t let the Euros suffer ethier. Come on Nintendo we know its coming. After all, IT IS called Everyone’s Nintendo and I am Nintendo. Are YOU Nintendo?

Jump to this Link for the official Nintendo site for Everyone’s Nintendo. Remember its in Japanese.

A 14-year-old boy from Scituate, Mass. died at a minor league hockey game Friday night while he was heading to pick up his Nintendo Wii that he had won in a raffle. It was “Revival Night,” an annual promotion held by the hockey teams to attract church congregants to the arena. The boy, being a member of the Word of Life Fellowship Christian outreach program, decided to stay after the game for the activities. That is when tragedy struck…

Here is an excerpt from the article:

The boy - who did not participate in the after-game competitions - won the raffle’s grand prize, a Nintendo Wii game console, according to [arena general manager Lawrence] Lepore. “He came down from the stands to get his prize and he either tripped or fell or collapsed,” Lepore said yesterday. The boy was taken by New England Ambulance to Hasbro Children’s Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.  

In a way, this sounds familiar to the story last year where the woman died trying to “hold her wee or a Wii”.  Who would have guessed a year ago that two people would die trying to get their hands on a Wii. My prayers go out to all the familes effected by both of these stories. May both of them rest in peace.

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Nintendo Wii
1. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
3. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles(Capcom)
4. Trauma Center: New Blood(Atlus)
5. Rayman Raving Rabbids 2(Ubisoft)
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Nintendo DS
1. Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
2. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo)
3. Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings(Square Enix)
4. Contra 4(Konami)
5. Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends(Majesco)
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Xbox 360
1. Assassin’s Creed(Ubisoft)
2. Mass Effect (Microsoft)
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare(Activision)
4. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men(Eidos)
5. Blacksite: Area 51 (Midway)
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PlayStation 3
1. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Sony)
2. Assassin’s Creed(Ubisoft)
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare(Activision)
4. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men(Eidos)
5. Timeshift(Vivendi Universal)
First of I would like to ask if you would all like the inclusions of competitor consoles as well. If you may, please respond in the comments as it will greatly benefit us here at thewiieffect.com.
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Wii: While Super Mario Galaxy is self-explanatory, the success of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games and Umbrella chronicles is showing good signs for third partys. As much as I love the Resident Evil series myself I am quite surprised a light gun spin off is selling like hot cakes. Maybe there is hope for the future of Resident Evil on the Wii. As RE4 sold more on the Wii than on the ps2 and Game Cube.
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DS: Mario Party hits the top charts, though honestly this is like Mario Party what? 12 now, jokes aside its another addition too the DS. Following up is Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and believe me this game is by far one of the greatest on the DS and for those who don’t own it…. your missing out a great adventure. A new Final Fantasy, that yes again sells faster than ice cream truck could ever dream of. Then we got Contra 4, finally a true sequel that actually lives up to the legendary original games. ****************************************
360/PS3:These are our the competitors summed up. The Xbox 360 has Assassins Creed at the top of the list and believe me that is one game that is worth the mention, a must try for gamers everywhere. Mass Effect and Call of Duty 4. In Sony’s empty pockets we got Uncharted for PS3 as well as some other games that is multi-platformed with the 360.

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UPDATE: I apologize for all the stars, word-press for some strange reason is not spacing things correctly. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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