Wii are the champions?

[BoundByHonor]

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The anticipated battle between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 for videogame console supremacy has become a sideshow to the unexpected rise of Nintendo's Wii as the new-generation game console of choice.

Once a dark-horse contender, the Wii has outsold both its competitors in recent months. According to sales data from the NPD Group, the Wii sold 335,000 units in February to the Xbox 360's 228,000 and the PS3's 127,000.

Of the three new-generation game consoles, the Xbox 360 has sold the most at 5 million units in the United States alone, but that's mainly due to the fact that it was released a full year earlier than either the Wii or the PS3. Since they first hit shelves last November, the PS3 has sold 1.1 million units while the Wii has tallied 1.86 million.

What's interesting is that the Wii achieved this feat not by offering a lot of multimedia bells and whistles like its competitors do, but by simply focusing on games.

Full article

Some extra stuff:

Direct quote from Miyamoto: "There are other enhancements to the Wii interface and developments being planned that are going to really make games for hardcore players a lot more fun and interesting... A lot of people have the misunderstanding that Nintendo is not interested in network gaming."

New virtual console games released yesterday: Starfox 64 for N64, TMNT for NES, and Dragon's curse for TG-16.

[Darc]

WOOOHO!HARDCORE GAMES!Game on Nintendo!I'm looking forward to that Wii MMORPG too!Oh man,that's going to be fun...I'll work my ass off to regain my grades and get a Wii now,Miyamoto has inspired me.

[AthlaS]

Getting a Wii on Sunday was well worth the three hours of waiting in line.

[Guato617]

Getting a Wii on Sunday was well worth the three hours of waiting in line.

three hours? well i guess thats not bad, but my friend works at a game stop, so hes reserved one for me