Wii sales still top of charts

It's a Wii blog - of course it's going to be talking up the Wii, right?

Well, no. Not really. If it's bad Wii news or a bad review, we're going to print that as well. But with that in mind, it's all good news for Wii owners at the moment. But not just Wii owners, Nintendo are pretty happy with their sales figures.

PlayStation 3 worries are not easing up, as the Wii continues its performance in the gaming charts through March. In the US, sales of video games, hardware and accessories rose 33% year over year to $1.1 billion. Who is on top? Nintendo's Wii.

Wii has notched more than 1 million systems sold in the US this year, while Nintendo's DS stands just under 1.25 million. The Wii remains the fastest-selling console in more than a decade (based on NPD sellthrough information). So far this year, Nintendo has sold more video game systems than all other manufacturers combined. Sony sold 280,000 PS2s and 130,000 PS3s in March, Nintendo sold 259,000 Wii systems, and Microsoft sold 199,000 Xbox 360s.

However, Wii sales were down 23 per cent on the previous month. One could say that it's certainly not over yet. At the end of the day, the on-going gaming support for the machines, as well as their price tags, advertising approaches and technological uses will attract gamers to one or more machines. In an age where many gamers can and will afford to purchase more than one games console, it's never over. The Wii is in a very strong position but must remain open to modern technologies that will advance gaming and not lay on the laurels of the past in the form of Virtual Console success.