The Nintendo Wii is more popular with Joe Public than rain made of Maltesers, that much we knew. But Nintendo’s just hit us with its latest sales stats and they’re astounding. The Japanese gaming giant has now sold 6 million little white boxes in the UK alone. That means as many as one in every four households across the land now owns one.
The Nintendo Wii went on sale in the UK back on the 8th of December 2006 and in a shade under three years 6 million of the motion sensing consoles have been snapped up, Nintendo revealed today. That’s an astonishing stat on its own, but even more revealing with a bit of number crunching.
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The most recent government statistics put the number of UK households at 24.7 million, meaning that one in every 4.1 homes on average now has a Wii. That number is likely a bit high, as the number of households will have increased since 2004 and some greedy so and sos might have more than one Wii.
But even so it’s an astonishing figure and one that’s testament to how mainstream Nintendo’s home console has become, with it not only being accepted but embraced by parents and partners across the country. At this rate, there’ll soon be as many Wiis as pointless types of controller peripherals…
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