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[Beyond3D News] Wii reaches 5 million units threshold in Japan: Just barely over one year after its launch on December 2 2006 in Nintendo's home market the Wii has been passed over the Japanese counters more than 5 million times. Among the offerings of the current console generation Wii so far has been the solid market leader in Japan, considerably outpacing its main rival in that market, the PlayStation 3 by Sony, despite the strong brand awareness of its predecessors.

 [Hyrule.net News] Wii first console to hit 5 million in Japan since 1990: By reaching over 5 million on January 20th, 2008 – only 60 weeks after launch, Wii has reversed the trend of falling sales for successive Nintendo consoles in Japan. Sixty weeks into their respective launches, Gamecube had sold 1.68 million units, while Nintendo 64 had sold 2.31 million units – neither console ever hit 6.0 million units sold in Japan.

 [GamesIndustry.biz] Nintendo sells 5 million Wii units in Japan: Two software titles have topped the two million sales mark so far – Wii Sports (2,663,938) and Wii Play (2,139,626), while Mario Party 8 (1,153,648) and Wii Fit (1,113,626) have both sold over a million copies.

 [MaxConsole.net News] Wii breaks 5 million console sales in Japan: Research company Enterbain has announced that the Wii has sold an estimated 5019337 units in Japan in just over a year. The top 5 Wii games were Wii Sports (2663938), Wii Play (2139084), Mario Party 8 (1153648), Wii Fit (1113626) and .

[Wii] Enterbrain: Nintendo sold five million Wiis in Japan: Nintendo's latest console is really getting bigger and bigger, well, that is if you're in Japan. And we're not talking about physical aspect mind you but rather the sales.

 [GAMER.BLORGE.com] Wii Sells 5 Million in Japan, outselling the SNES and GameCube: The Nintendo 64, even with a strong launch title and the release of the first of two Legend of Zelda titles for the console, only managed to sell 2.31 million units, while the GameCube, which even Nintendo of America’s President Reggie Fils-Aime considers to be a lackluster effort, sold 1.68 million units in 60 weeks. That averages out to 28,000 consoles sold per week, which means that the Nintendo GameCube was a bigger success than either the Xbox or Xbox 360.

[Next Generation] Wii Hits 5 Million in Japan: The report also contained the life-to-date sales numbers for the system’s top five titles, all of which are Nintendo developed. Launch titles Wii Sports and Wii Play topped the list, shifting 2,663,938 and 2,139,084 copies respectively.

 [Digg / upcoming] Wii Tops 5 Million in Japan; Super Mario Places Only 5th: Nintendo's Wii console has now passed the five million sold mark in its native Japan. Curiously, Super Mario Galaxy sold just 843,961 units, easily outsold by the likes of Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit.

 [Online Games] NPD Analysis: Game|Life's Finest Fights It Out - SendMeRSS: Matt Cassamassina over at IGN has access to the full set of NPD data, not just the top tens, and he said something very interesting on their last podcast: Wii software actually outsold Xbox 360 software this month. I've contacted NPD for confirmation, but so far all they've told me is that on the list of Top 100 software titles for December, 20 Wii games charted, versus 18 Xbox 360 games.

 [Wii Blog: Nintendo Wii News and Views] Another Developer Down on the Wii: This is exactly the attitude that I am afraid will become more and more contagious with other developers leading to no one wanting to put out games for the Wii other than Nintendo itself.

[Silicon Republic] Sony plays catch-up with European PS3 sales: Although Sony’s sales level goal of 11m for its PlayStation 3 games console may not be met by the end of March, the holiday season was a catch-up period with the company selling over 1.2m units in Europe alone in the five-week period ended 31 December 2007.

 [The Liquid Architecture blog] “We don’t need to stick to a narrow definition of games”: More than a year after its release, the Wii’s still not sticking to shelves. While the delay on Smash Brothers Brawl was a big disappointment to more hardcore gamers, this year’s new entries in the Zelda, Mario and Metroid franchises kept everyone satisfied, provided they could get their hands on a Wii.

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[Nintendo Wii Reviews Blog] A Comprehensive Look At The Japanese Console Wars In 2007: Pretty charts and graphs illustrate how Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony fared in 2007 overseas. A statistical bloodbath between the PS3, Wii, DS, PSP and Xbox 360.

 [Hacking the PSP Blog] Japanese Sales Trends In 2007: Line Riding And Analyzing: The Nintendo DS saw its largest weekly period sales alongside a few high-profile software releases and in time with holidays, but was less dependent on individual software releases to pull in big numbers. Media Create software sales charts were regularly heavy on DS software, and it wasn't uncommon to see weekly charts feature nothing but DS and Wii software in the top ten””see Dragon Quest Swords and Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings launch weeks and this past week for examples.

[Blog Surfer] Japanese Sales Trends In 2007: Line Riding And Analyzing [Feature]: Like the Nintendo DS, Wii sales were less bumpy, as heavily marketed and franchise releases seemed to have less of an impact than the desire to play Wii Sports. One interesting trend that seemed to affect Wii sales were strong post-release weeks, with Mario games (Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Party 8) doing more good in their second week of release.

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