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Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit Dominate eBay Shopping

Submitted by Ryan Spoon on December 8, 2008 – 7:56 amComments

TechCrunch posted this morning about the top tech gadgets as measured by eBay’s top sales (always a good indication of macro-level trending and habits… one reason why I enjoyed working at eBay so much).

Michael Arrington focuses mostly on the remaining popularity of the Nintendo Wii – which is stunning considering how its their second consecutive holiday season and so few games have been released.

Here are my thoughts:

- 83% of the top 15 items are video games. I’ve said it before: video games are a massive business

- 12% is mobile and the Blackberry Curve + Blackberry Pearl are bigger than the iPod 3G (clearly the price point and used market)

- Only two tech items are non-mobile / non-gaming: the iPod Touch (really surprised) and the MacBook Air

- The Wii Fit is amazing. More Wii Fits were sold than Playstation 3s and Guitar Hero IIIs combined.

- The drop off from the Nintendo Wii and Xbox360 is huge. The Wii sold 2mm+ items, the Xbox 1.3m and then next biggest item was 350k. Furthermore, the 15th item only sold 1,650 units

The Top 15 Tech Purchases
Nintendo Wii: 2,056,866 related items sold
Microsoft Xbox360: 1,297,903 related items sold
Sony PSP: 350,591 related items sold
iPod Touch: 281,361 related items sold
Nintendo Wii Fit: 266,584 related items sold
Apple iPhone 3G: 212,837 related items sold
BlackBerry Pearl: 207,688 related items sold
BlackBerry Curve: 193,788 related items sold
Sony Playstation 3: 103,333 related items sold
Guitar Hero III: 98,159 related items sold
Halo 3: 91,067 related items sold
Grand Theft Auto IV: 43,005 related items sold
MacBook Air: 12,423 related items sold
Guitar Hero Aerosmith: 3,749 related items sold
Rock Band 2’s: 1,650 related items sold

Wii Fit Game Nintendo

Popularity: 10% [?]

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  • I saw some cool adverts going viral on Spoke. They were bikini models playing boxing and twisting their butts playing Nintendo Wii.
  • Yep the Wii became pretty popular pretty fast
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  • I saw some cool adverts going viral on Spoke. They were bikini models playing boxing and twisting their butts playing Nintendo Wii.
  • The Wii's Ebay price has really come down. For Christmas 08, it was around 20 to 30 dollars from retail price. Nintendo was finally able to meet demand and ship enough consoles.
  • the Nintendo Wii - which is stunning considering how its their second consecutive holiday season and so few games have been released.
  • I want to play monster hunter on wii.. I'm also planning to buy one myself.......................
  • Well if you can play a video game and exercise at the same time that’s great.Half Price Wii...
    they are really cool games, we can play and in a same times we can take care our healthy with exercise and not playing a games only.
  • Wow thats alot of money people are spending on the wii ...I guess for me the best web browser was still firefox.. google may seem to be a promising web browser but still there are areas that needed to be fixed.....
  • I guess for me the best web browser was still firefox.............Well if you can play a video game and exercise at the same time that’s great.Half Price Wii
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  • I want to play monster hunter on wii.. I'm also planning to buy one myself.
  • I guess for me the best web browser was still firefox.. google may seem to be a promising web browser but still there are areas that needed to be fixed.
  • The Wii's Ebay price has really come down. For Christmas 08, it was around 20 to 30 dollars from retail price. Nintendo was finally able to meet demand and ship enough consoles. Wii Fit had high prices because there was a shortage.
  • they are really cool games, we can play and in a same times we can take care our healthy with exercise and not playing a games only. it's very good to exercise with playing games.
  • RoyWiz
    Well if you can play a video game and exercise at the same time that’s great.Half Price Wii
  • Wow thats alot of money people are spending on the wii
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