Nintendo sells 7.8 mil Virtual Console downloads, shrugs
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The Wii’s Virtual Console has sold 7.8 million downloads so far, totaling 3.5 billion yen, which is about $33 million, according to a post by IGN quoting Nintendo executive Shinji Hatano. With 175 games available, according to that most trusted of sources Wikipedia, that comes out to about $188,500 per game and about 44,500 downloads per game.
Apparently, Nintendo doesn’t know whether that’s good or not.
“We’re currently unsure if this is a lot or low,” Hatano said. “They’re not bad figures.”
The costs for maintaining the Virtual Console service can’t be very high, so I would guess that they’re at least making a tidy amount. Then again, when you’ve sold over 1 million consoles and grossed $172 million in one week, $33 million in about a year can’t be terribly exciting.
Tags: nintendo, sales, Virtual-Console, wii
