Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Wii told you, told you, so.


In the weeks following its launch in November, the Wii console blew away Sony's PS3, thanks in part to Sony's failure to deliver enough new consoles to the all-important U.S. market. Nintendo had sold 1.1 million units of the Wii in the U.S. by late January vs. 687,000 PS3s during roughly the same period. "Nintendo Wii won the launch phase," noted Standard & Poor's equity analyst Clyde Montevirgen at the time. (S&P, like BusinessWeek, is a unit of The McGraw Hill Cos. Well you know what, we knew this was going to happen. And happen.

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