So 65 Million Wii Remotes Walk Into A Bar...

Worst joke opening ever

Oct 26 2010, 11:20am CDT | by Jordan Cressman

So 65 Million Wii Remotes Walk Into A Bar...

Nintendo has sent out a press release gloating about the number of Wii Remotes it's sold in the US, and let's just say it's kind of impressive. Just a little...

With only around 30.4 million Wii units actually sold at retail, gamers are buying an average of more than two controllers for every console. That's a ratio that most systems never attain. In total, 65.3 million Wii Remotes have been sold, including those packaged in with the system.

Nintendo had its own number crunchers come up with a fun statistic about the number of Wii Remotes that were sold: "That’s enough for every man, woman and child living in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit and San Francisco, and enough still remains for every resident of Florida, Ohio, Virginia and North Dakota," it said in the press release.

Of course, for over a year we saw the game Wii Play top the video game sales charts. It wasn't a stellar game by any stretch, but it included a Wii Remote, a move some saw as a cheesy way to inflate Nintendo's game sales numbers. And now we know exactly how big of a factor that was. Of the 34.85 million Wii Remotes that were sold, 12.92 million of them came from Wii Play. That's more than a third. In other words, it was a genius move by Nintendo.

However, even though it wasn't packed in with any huge games, the Nunchuk controller attachment has sold very well too. More than 52.9 million Nunchuks have flown off store shelves (including the 30.41 million that were included in Wii console sales). We don't have any statistics on Wii-related injuries, but it is true that there are 65 million blunt-force weapons being flung around homes at every waking hour. Yep, we turned this into a fear mongering story. Hell yeah.

The impressive-sounding numbers were also a way for Nintendo to kick off its Wii Remote Plus campaign. The new version of the Wii controller, which was Wii Motion Plus built directly into it, will be available starting November 7 for around $40.

Updates

GTA V Coming Q1 2013 According to Analyst

Source: Got Game News

Analyst Arvind Bhatia, from Sterne Agee predicts that Grand Theft Auto V will be out early next year. While talking to GameSpot, Bhatia said that the game should be out in the first quarter of 2013. In addition, he expects that the ga ...
Full article at: Got Game News More like this 1 hour ago, 6:35pm CDT

'At the Edge' special programs

Source: The Morning Call

•"Monsters, Aliens and Bizarre Creatures," with Jordu Schell, world renowned creature and character designer for the film, gaming and collecibles industry. 2 p.m. June 3 •"Roger Dean: Pathways and Bridges," with the British artist, who elevated the albu ...
Full article at: The Morning Call More like this 1 hour ago, 6:33pm CDT

Allentown Art Museum kicks off summer with 'Art of the Fantastic'

Source: The Morning Call

Everyone had seen them: captivating scenes of barbarians slicing their way through misty primordial lands, wizards meeting on distant planets, ghostly specters threatening scantily clad damsels in distre ...
Full article at: The Morning Call More like this 1 hour ago, 6:33pm CDT