Nintendo Sells more than 1.5 million hardware units during Thanksgiving Week

See that guy to the left, he approves of Nintendo’s sales this week, so you must too.

Anyhow, internal tracking numbers from Nintendo are telling us that sold more than 1.5 million Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi video game systems combined in the United States during Thanksgiving Week. That works out to more than 150 Nintendo systems sold every minute continuously for the week – or more than 2.5 every second.

Nintendo estimates that during the week:

• more than 550,000 Wii home consoles sold, demonstrating that consumers nationwide have responded to the new suggested retail price of $199.99.
• more than 1 million Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi portable systems sold. This number surpasses the all-time hand-held hardware sales record set by Game Boy™ Advance during Thanksgiving Week 2002.

“Holiday shoppers are finding value in our products’ prices, and through a game-play experience that is unique to Nintendo,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.

Pretty impressive Nintendo. I think that all of the companies did extremely well during the holidays and I think that during the Christmas is going to be even crazier.