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US: Wii boasts record Black Friday

Ben Parfitt

by Ben Parfitt
Tuesday, December 9th 2008 at 1:54PM GMT

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that sales of his firm’s Wii console this Black Friday were double that enjoyed by the machine in the same period in 2007.

Though he was not exact about the timeframe, he did state that the sales were measured over a week-long period that included Thanksgiving and national shopping day Black Friday.

CasualGaming.biz has the stats – click here to take a look.

Tags: sales , wii , us , america , iwata , usa , friday , black , north , saturo

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