{"id":2156,"date":"2007-08-29T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2156"},"modified":"2012-12-17T23:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T07:46:46","slug":"wii-fastest-selling-console-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wii-fastest-selling-console-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Fastest-Selling Console in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2287\" title=\"UK_wii-S2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/UK_wii-S2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"305\" \/>AUG. 29, 2007 <em>\u2022 <\/em>According to research firm Chart Track, the Wii has become the fastest-selling video game console in U.K. history, reaching 1 million units sold in 38 weeks. The sales performance was 11 weeks faster than the PlayStation 2 took to reach 1 million units sold, and 22 weeks faster than the Xbox 360. For 2007, Nintendo says total video game hardware and software sales in the U.K. are up more than 40% compared to 2006. The Wii currently boasts a 68% share of the U.K. home console market. Nintendo plans to ship 16.5 million Wii consoles worldwide, plus 72 million Wii software units, by March 31 2008.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: The U.K. is the third-largest game market in the world. In its entire lifespan the GameCube barely broke 1 million units in the U.K. The Wii is clearly in a different league.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 29, 2007 \u2022 According to research firm Chart Track, the Wii has become the fastest-selling video game console in U.K. history, reaching 1 million units sold in 38 weeks. The sales performance was 11 weeks faster than the PlayStation 2 took to reach 1 million units sold, and 22 weeks faster than the Xbox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}