Nintendo sold 1.5 million consoles in the Thanksgiving week

Posted on Tuesday, December 01 2009 @ 21:58 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Nintendo unveiled it sold more than 1.5 million Wii, DS and DSi consoles in the US during the Thanksgiving week.

This means that Nintendo sold 150 units every minute during the entire week, or more than 2.5 each second. Furthermore, DS and DSi have broken Nintendo's previous hand-held sales record set by Game Boy Advance also on Thanksgiving but in 2002.

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