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Four million Nintendo Wiis by year’s end — that’s 4,000,000 more Opera browsers

Published November 1st, 2006 3:32 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

BetaNews published an article today that cites Nintendo’s plan to release at least four million Wii consoles between its launch on November 19th and the end of the year.

That’s 4,000,000 more Opera browsers in the market.

Granted not all Wii gamers will use the Opera browser on the Wii to browse the web, but it’s likely that a nice percentage of them will. According to the article most of the 4 million Wii consoles will be shipped to the US.

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  1. 1 santouras Nov 1st, 2006 at 8:24 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Windows Windows XP

    Not technically. People will need to download opera first being as it doesn’t come pre-installed, but I’m sure a fair percentage of people will download, I know I am :D

  2. 2 Daniel Goldman Nov 1st, 2006 at 8:52 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Windows Windows XP

    santouras, you right about that. The download, however, will be free.

  3. 3 Ragu Sivanmalai Nov 2nd, 2006 at 6:24 am
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    For the people interested on a buyers guide from walmart about Nintendo wii console,you can check the following blog posting
    http://ragusivanmalai.blogspot.com/2006/11/nintendo-wii-guide-from-walmart.html

  4. 4 Reb Nov 2nd, 2006 at 6:25 am
    using Opera Opera 9.01 on Windows Windows 2000

    The Opera logo is on the Wii package though……

  5. 5 Tobbi Nov 2nd, 2006 at 9:52 am
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Windows Windows XP

    Fine. I guess, it will be a great deal. ;-)

  6. 6 Stefan Nov 3rd, 2006 at 6:21 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.00 on Linux Linux

    I’m looking forward to a nice Wii-Icon in the “Posted … on” section of the comments… ;)

  7. 7 toimtoim Nov 8th, 2006 at 12:38 am
    using Opera Opera 9.00 on Windows Windows XP

    wow, opera will get more user than firefox in future (maybe)

  8. 8 goohf Nov 13th, 2006 at 1:23 am
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Windows Windows XP

    weird how the Opera logo is on the Wii package yet not pre-installed. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

    Probably to increase sales in Japan? (I heard Opera has built a fairly decent brand image among the tech-savvy in Japan).

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