Some supplementary information provided as part of Nintendo’s latest financial results has got something interesting tucked away amidst all the chest-beating: global home console sales data for 2010.
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What’s interesting is that, considering the figures were published by Nintendo, about the only conclusive thing they show is a global and sustained decline in Wii sales. There are a few other patterns – the Xbox 360’s surge in the US, the PS3 picking up in Europe and Nintendo not even bothering to include Microsoft’s console in Japanese figures – but that Wii drop-off is simply the most obvious and important of the lot.