Targets top 3 selling items during Thanksgiving day sale – Apple iPad, Apple Watch, and Wii U. Wii U is going to win NPD folks!
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) November 27, 2015
US retailer Target has announced that it broke its online sales record on Thanksgiving. The company says this year’s sale has easily outpaced last year’s performance. The three top-selling products this year were the iPad, the Apple Watch and finally the Wii U. Let’s hope this trend continues for other retailers.
The record-breaking sales online were driven by three items: the Apple iPad, the Apple Watch, and the Wii U gaming console, the company said.
Thanks, HugoeMMG
Sickr, that’s a typo. You mean April Fools, not Thanksgiving…
Love it. You good Sir and/ or Madam, win the Internet on this Black Friday!!!
Wow that’s awesome! Keep it up Wii U!
I am one of the new happy Wii U owners!! :D
Congrats I hope you have flippin fun, settle it with friends and stay fresh!!!
(See myself using 3 slogans of popular WiiU games: MAriokart 8, Sm4sh and Splatoon)
One of us. One of us.
Nintendo could’ve won the NPD of November last year had they made a Mario Kart 8/Super Smash Bros bundle for last year’s Black Friday at a discounted price. Nonetheless great job Nintendo. I really hope this is sign of things to come for the most important month of the year for business corporations which is of course December
That’s a pleasant surprise. Can’t wait to see some actual data!
Nintendo likes to use the “we saw a 400 % increase in sales from last year’s holidays” like they always do. They never give numbers since they never are high. Data is going to show a small increase.
An increase is still nice, no matter the size.
Was waiting for some spinning from someone.~
Not spinning but logical thinking. Any person thinking logically knows that percentages don’t mean anything without real numbers to back it up. For all we know, this 400% increase is just an increase of 2 sales to 8 sales. For an online website where billions of people have access to it, 8 sales from 2 sales of last year is a laughing stock. Is that the number of consoles sold? No clue because Amazon & Nintendo didn’t give us real numbers or actual data to back it up, so why get excited over a measly little percentage?
It was a bigger seller than the other two consoles, for Target.
Too much logic in one post! You will be accused of spinning now!
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Great news for Nintendo. Let’s keep the sales up!
Considering it was up there with the likes of the most popular Apple products means that Nintendo must have finally found the perfect price and bundle to sell the Wii U with, during the holidays at least. I obviously hope that the Wii U continues to thrive during the holidays and onward.
Well according to target, they sold an iPad every second during Thanksgiving, so that alone shows you how much the Wii U could’ve potentially sold. Also, Wii U was the most sold item online, so there’s that.
True but real numbers, even an estimate, would have been nice.
Im actually surprised we havent gotten any numbers yet. Its already December, the Damn NPD shouldve released the numbers already.
Keep up the trend! One week from now, Xenoblade Chronicles X is gonna be a huge hit.
That would be a Christmas miracle.
Yeah… if the idiots at NoA even give XCX a huge marketing campaign. From the looks of Latin America’s marketing campaign, or lack there of, my expectations are incredibly low.
so true :/
Well no shit… Two amazing games in 1 bundle!?! They should of done this way earlier!
Unfortunately, the real heavy hitters didn’t release until within the last year and a half… Smash especially.
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I want to say let’s hope it continues this trend… But like every other bump in sales, it’ll probably be short lived & only add around one million more Wii U consoles. :/ Yay! We’ll be one step closer to 13-15 million consoles sold! *sarcasm*
Was wondering how you were going to whine this time.
Ha ha lol
He always finds a way.
LOL! U BEAT ME TO IT XD
Excuse me for wanting my favorite company to do better than what it is doing & sell over 25 million consoles, not a measly 13-15 million.
They need to keep that $250 price on the WiiU
||You think Nintendo is your ally? Nintendo can only spread suffering……
|| They are the enemy of all gaming……
u got nintendo confused with sony :)
You’re both wrong. Nintendo & Sony aren’t the enemy of all gaming: EA is.
oh yes definitely XD
Hey, how is that that Steam OS going?~
LOL! XD
Apparently that bundle is selling out in stores as well as online. I’ve seen multiple people say that it’s sold out at there store. Including OBE1 how could I not give him a shoutout!
haha I just watched his video a couple of minutes ago!
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Presumably Target had a great deal for Wii U on?
that does mean something?
I do not think so.
Then you must not have read the article.
See Nintendo, if you put together great Bundles with 2 great games, you will see sales come in. If I’m not mistaken, there was no Smash Bros Wii U Bundle for it’s launch in North America, right?
Not an official one, I think. Only a Mario Kart 8 bundle. But that was it.
Sm4sh came out literally a week before last year’s BF; there was no time.
Mario Kart 8 had a bundle at launch, same for Super Mario Maker.
Mwahaha. Yes! More Smash fodder! *Makes villager face.*
Yeah I hard the news! This is great for Nintendo and hopefully this will last for the rest of the season! Still don’t get why they didn’t do this last year especially with Smash 4 launching around this time of the year last year.
I was fooled last year. I bought into the hype that the Wii U was selling like hot cakes and sold nearly 1 million units in two weeks. I’m not gonna be fooled again. With the NX on the horizon, I seriously doubt the Wii U sales will be much better than last years. Maybe a slight increase….
Your loss with all the gams coming out next year and the NX NOT coming out next year. *rolls eyes*
It’s not my loss, I have a Wii U. Bought it on day one. I hope the Wii U succeeds, just not gonna hold my breath. The Wii U will be lucky,……. LUCKY to reach 15 million lifetime sales.
Yep. Day one buyer here also. I think Day One buyers are the most realistic. We saw how things really went down.
Yep. We were around when Nintendo let the console sink it’s first year when they could have done something to keep 3rd parties from ditching the Wii U since they have so much money in the bank that they could have afforded to pay some 3rd parties to make some exclusive Wii U titles. It sucks you have to pay to get support but least you’d be providing your customer base something to look forward to besides droughts.
When I was out Black Friday shopping I saw plenty of Ps4 bundles left, but no Wii U or Xbox bundles, so sounds about right. There wasn’t even much of a crowd this year. I suppose it was because you could get the same things online.
I find it funny that Black Friday isn’t freaking World War Z this year. Every time a friend goes shopping, I hear it was pretty calm. Maybe they finally sent the Black Friday shoppers to the sun? 0_o
No, most of the larger retailers put all their Black Friday deals online, so most people just shopped online. IMO the sales weren’t even that good this year.
That & I’m sure the Paris attack & the threats from ISIS have some people too scared to leave their homes. :/
Oops. My bad. I meant ISIL.
ISIL?
It’s an alternate name but seems to be the most widely used name. It stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It should be IFAIL, the Islamic Failing Assholes of Iraq & the Levant, though.
Looks like they’re wising up. Thank God.
At this point, Nintendo is practically giving the system away, but hey, if it can grow the install base, then…
So, we’ll wait for some hard numbers, but the WiiU really needs a shot in the arm. Can’t wait to see some actual data!
Meanwhile, get hyped with articles of percentages & top sellers with no real numbers or actual data! Be proud, ecstatic, & happy that the Wii U is such a huge success with around 12 million consoles sold worldwide when it should be a hell of a lot better! But hey. I’m just spinning shit and whining. It’s not like I actually care about Wii U & want Nintendo to do better!
Damn. Forgot the sarcasm tag. Oh well. You know me well enough to know that’s sarcasm, anyway. >.<
I bleed sarcasm, so I got it! ;D
The Amazon Cyber Week goes only until the 30.11 and their was no WII U Bundle yet. :/
Too bad in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter.
In the grand scheme of things, the profits help Nintendo stay in business, so it does matter
Even if Nintendo weren’t making a profit, they would still go ahead with their plans, since they have over $10 billion cash in reserves. Yeah, it helps that they sell more Wii U consoles, but in not selling Wii U consoles by means would lead to them going out of business, or have a hugely detrimental effect. Now, if for whatever reason the 3DS stopped selling, and if for some even more incredulous reason people stopped buying Amiibo….THEN they’d have an issue. But even then, they’d still fall back on their cash reserves to do something else to get back into a more stable space.
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