While the rest of the world copes with widespread recession and economic turmoil, thick-skinned Nintendo set a new United States sales record in November, with more than 3.6 million Wii and DS systems sold.
According to NPD Group, Nintendo’s November Wii sales of 2 million exceed what the system has ever sold in a non-December month, even outshining last year’s performance in a decidedly cheerier economy, and its November launch back in 2006. The new numbers bring total Nintendo Wiis sold up to 15.4 million in the U.S.
Meanwhile, Sony’s more-expensive PlayStation 3 has seen the opposite performance in the face of economic decline, seeing sales fall from 466,000 last year to just 378,000 this year during the month of November, marking a 17 percent decline.
For its part, Microsoft managed to forge ahead like Nintendo, selling 836,000 units, up from 777,000 last year.
