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FINALLY! At long last! People living in the North American continent have the opportunity to join the treehouse that is Club Nintendo (maybe I should have used a nightclub reference instead). Club Nintendo, that customer loyalty service where fans who show their support get rewarded with limited edition merchandise and sweet prizes. It was always the envy of Nintendo players in Canada, the U.S.A., and Mexico to see their Japanese and later European counterparts get to revel in a mass of unique Nintendo collectables. You could assume that since North America was the region with the most spend-ready customer base that the Club was reserved for the hometown folks in Japan as a default and for Europe as a compensation since they notoriously used to (and sometimes still do) get ignored for timely hot-ticket releases. But now that the world of Nintendo is better coming together (South Africa's and Australia's Club Nintendos have been going on for most of the year now) at least we in the former "New World" finally get a chance to participate.
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When those Japanese door-to-door salesmen solicited citizens across the U.S.A. with the offer "Wii would like to play," it looks like many of them invited the duo in. The NPD Group, Inc. has recently released interesting stats about Wii Play along with some other sobering Nintendo information. Wanna know how many Wii Plays people in the United States have bought? Try the number 7.9 million on for a good fit. To put that into perspective, according to the NPD 15.4 million Wii consoles have been purchased by U.S. customers since its debut so Wii Play has been bought by over half of all U.S. Wii console owners.
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Want a preview of holiday season madness? Then check out Nintendo. The home of Hyrule managed to produce enough Wiis for the stores that 800,000 of them were sold during the week of Thanksgiving! AMAZING! This record was definitely a result of Nintendo making sure to have enough stock for that infamous Friday after the holiday. And by the way, this figure is over DOUBLE last year's amount of Wiis during same time span (350,000). Oh, not to forget, DS sales went up about 20% during that Thanksgiving week. Figures brought to you by Nintendo President and Chief Executive Officer, Satoru Iwata.
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