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- Japanese retailers have begin to accept reservation of the Nintendo Wii console, while an official price hasn't been announced, some Japanese retailers are expecting the price of Wii to be 18,000 yen (US$160).

- Famitsu reported that Nintendo's senior management director Yoshihiro Mori has confirmed the price of Wii, the console will cost 25000 yen (US$222) in Japan. The price is about 1/3 of PS3 and less than half of Xbox 360.

- Nintendo plans to ship 6 million units of Nintendo Wii worldwide by the end of financial year of 2006, and they expect to ship 17 million units of software.

- Nintendo revealed its worldwide shipment of the various systems in 2005 financial year (Apr 05 - Mar 06):

GameBoy Advance - 8.33 million units
GameBoy Advance SP - 6.44 million units
GameBoy Micro - 1.83 million units
Nintendo DS - 11.46 million units
Nintendo DS Lite - 0.58 million unit
GameCube - 2.35 million units
- Here are the worldwide shipment of Nintendo software in 2005:

GameBoy Advance - 59.36 million units
Nintendo DS - 49.95 million units
GameCube - 32.79 million units
- Here are the forecasts for the 2006 financial year:

GameBoy Advance - 2.5 million units hardware / 30 million units software
Nintendo DS - 16 million units hardware / 70 million units software
GameCube - hardware forecast not available / 15 million units software
Wii - 6 million units hardware / 17 million units software