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March 14, 2008

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Wii Sales Increased

By Jason Widmore

The gaming industry is making quite good business and doesnt`t seem to suffer from any king of recession.

According to Bloomberg the sales of video games, consoles and accessories jumped 34 percent to $1.33 billion from $992.2 million a year earlier.

While console sales increased about 19 percent to $480 million, video-game sales grew by 47 percent to $668.7 million.

The sales of accessories made a progress of 36 percent to $185.3 million.

Especially the Nintendo Wii was the winner compared to the Playstation and the Xbox.

The Wii was sold 29 percent more often from a year earlier and 432,000 Wii units were bought by customers in the last month alone.

Also almost 1.7 million Wii Accessories have been sold in the same time period.

Certainly the Wii sales benefited from the stronger Wii supply and the increased Wii availability after Nintendo stopped to divert shipments to Japan for the japanese holiday season.

Combined with all the new game and accessories that are announced to be released for the Wii in the next months it looks like this year will be even better for the gaming industry and Nintendo in special.

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