According to a report by the NPD group, a market research firm that tracks sales in America, the Nintendo Wii is the clear leader among new-generation video games.
NPD says that for the month of April, Nintendo sold around 360 thousand Wii units, leaping ahead of the ever popular Sony PlayStation 2. Microsoft Xbox 360 was the runner up with sales of 174 thousand game units. As for Sony? It sold 82 thousand game machine of PlayStation 3 and 194 thousand PlayStation 2 game consoles.
I remember around Christmas time this past year when there was so much hype around the new Wii. I know friends who waited hours on long lines and called in every favor in the book to get a Wii to put under the Christmas tree. Wiis were being promised on Craigs List for unbelievable prices, and it seemed that many were willing to pay almost anything to bring home their very own Wii. Some succeeded, while others were very disappointed. I wondered at the time, when the hype would die down, as it inevitably does.
But at least for Spring, that Wii fever still seems to be going strong. In fact, for a fundraiser at my child’s school spring fair, a Wii was being raffled off at $5 a ticket. We did in fact buy three tickets but came home Wii-less, much to the disappointment of my oldest son. The mom in charge of that particular raffle told me that they had to go ahead and make up a second box to store tickets, after the first box filled to the brim by early afternoon. It seems that the Wii is still playing hard to get in the stores, so securing a Wii for the raffle was a real coup for the school and one of its best money-makers that day.
Do you own a Wii?
Mary Ann Romans writes about her family’s money saving secrets in the Frugal Living Blog here at Families.com
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