Nintendo Selling Up to 46,000 Wii Remotes a Day

Whilst Nintendo has stated that Apple are becoming a bigger threat than Microsoft, when it comes to handheld devices, the company can still proudly boast about their success with motion controlled gaming, with the Wii. Sony recently released their motion controller, Move, which Sony claim is more precise than the Wii Remote and Microsoft are also readying the release their camera device, Kinect. Sony and Microsoft will have a lot of catching up to do though, with Nintendo now claiming, on average, they sell up to 46,000 Wii Remotes a day and that’s just in the US.

Overall, Nintendo have sold more than a whooping 65 million of the controllers, since the launch of the system, back in 2006. NPD have provided a detailed breakdown of sales for Wii Remotes for the US only, which reveals smaller sales in the Pink and Blue coloured Wii Remotes, but strong sales elsewhere. The details can be seen below.

• 30.41 million included with the Wii hardware
• 12.92 million sold with Wii Play
• 18.56 million white versions sold separately
• 2.44 million black versions sold separately
• 467,500 pink versions sold separately
• 465,200 blue versions sold separately

NPD also revealed details on the separately sold Nunchuck accessory, with overall sales hitting 52.9 million, in the US.

Nintendo also plans to release its combined MotionPlus Wii Remote next month, which will boost sales even more for the device. The new Wii Remote Plus will launch on November 7th, in the US and European gamers will be able to get their hands on it two days earlier, on November 5th. Colours will come in White, Black, Blue and Pink.