{"id":5635,"date":"2009-04-28T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5635"},"modified":"2014-10-26T22:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T05:24:03","slug":"korean-dealers-sell-500k-wiis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/korean-dealers-sell-500k-wiis\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Dealers Sell 500K Wiis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12370\" alt=\"S Korea Wii-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/S-Korea-Wii-S.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"205\" \/>APRIL 28, 2009 \u2022 In the year since the Wii was released in South Korea, retailers there have sold 500,000 units. Wii software has not sold so well, however. The best selling game, Wii Sports, which isn&#8217;t bundled with the console in Korea and Japan, has sold 210,000 units in South Korea since April 26.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Comparatively speaking, the Wii is not a blowout success in Korea.\u00a0While it took the PlayStation 2 almost three years to break the one million unit mark in Korea, the Wii is selling into a market that is significantly more mature.\u00a0South Korea also has the issue of currency devaluation.\u00a0The South Korean Won has historically hovered at around 1,000 Won per U.S dollar or 9 Won per Japanese yen.\u00a0However, starting in October 2008, the value of Won began a steep decline.\u00a0In late February\/early March 2009 the valuation was over 1,500 Won per USD or over 15 Won per Yen.\u00a0These type of fluctuations are making it difficult for foreign companies releasing products in Korea.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 28, 2009 \u2022 In the year since the Wii was released in South Korea, retailers there have sold 500,000 units. Wii software has not sold so well, however. The best selling game, Wii Sports, which isn&#8217;t bundled with the console in Korea and Japan, has sold 210,000 units in South Korea since April 26. [&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\/5635"}],"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=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12373,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/12373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}