The results were all the more discouraging as they came with an extra sales week included.
"21" has continued its amazing run a year after its initial release, selling 3.69 million copies through the sales week that ended July 1, the mid-year point for tracker Nielsen SoundScan.
That's just part of a 1.2 million hardware sales week that Nintendo's enjoyed across the past seven days -- which include the crucial Black Friday -- where the Wii saw 300K units sold, and portables dominated.
ENGADGET: Nintendo Wii U North American sales top 400K in first week HD
The U.S. reported stronger than expected retail sales last week, proving the country still has signs of life post-QE2.
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At the auctions of burley, growers suspended sales this week to protest at prices that were about 15% lower than last year's.
When October auto sales are released next week, sales of traditional, truck-based SUVs will likely look downright robust compared to sales in October of last year.
Major retailers reported a 2.2% rise in sales last week compared with the same period last year, according to the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and UBS Warburg.
Apple will see a bump in its iPhone 5 sales next week as the popular smart phone finally arrives in Mumbai Friday, Nov. 2, after several delays.
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The top sales last week included Kramont Realty Trust (nyse: KRT - news - people ), a REIT that specializes in neighborhood shopping centers and strip malls on the East Coast.
"The collaboration is about having people come in to see beautiful works of art and objects from jewelry to paintings, in particular for the spring seasons kicking off the spring sales next week with our impressionist and modern evening sale and day sale on the 8th and 9th, " says Ms. Kim.
And speaking of things that go, the U.S. auto industry may in fact offer President Obama the only dependable port in a re-gathering economic storm when car makers post their August sales results early next week: Prognosticators believe the sales snapshot will show an auto industry that is still strongly on track toward its third consecutive year of double-digit sales gains.
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Retail stocks that had benefitted from strong Thanksgiving week sales also reversed their rallies Friday.
Each time a circular was cut, sales for that week dropped up to 10%.
Online sales for the week increased 14 percent versus the same period of the prior year.
The tally is more than four times the first-week sales of its previous album.
How many iPhones do you expect Verizon to sell, either in pre-sales or next week during the full launch?
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Maintaining the price points on gloves and everything else led the company to post strong earnings and sales growth last week which buoyed shares.
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Boeing made significant sales projections last week amid speculation that AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, may be facing bankruptcy and restructuring.
Still, news of the economy made us wonder about all those reports of robust spending on Black Friday and record-setting online sales during last week's Cyber Monday.
Tha Carter III's first-week sales, which were easily pop's strongest since Kanye West's Graduation last September, were spurred by a daring marketing strategy that doubled as a cocky musical challenge.
The most impressive spike came for former Beatle Paul McCartney, whose Back in the U.S. album saw a 542% rise in sales in the week after Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005.
Art writer Lindsay Pollock says giant sales at this week's New York art auctions suggest this is an art market climbing ever higher in price, regardless of that worldwide credit crunch.
The same-store sales reported last week showed strong January numbers, and the longer-term chart shows a solid uptrend (line b) and the breakout in 2011 above the 2007-2008 highs (line a).
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But, according to this weeks Nielsen VideoScan numbers, courtesy of Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray took the lion's share of the HD movie sales again this week with a 71% to 29% split (2.45:1).
ENGADGET: Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending November 4th, 2007
Best Buy may not be touting any big January savings on computers and flat screens (though as with any store that could always come later), but offers.com did find a week-to-week sales plan on videogames right through January.
Clearly, this approach is antithetical to the major studios, who are hugely reluctant to release games before they are at least nearly perfect (or as perfect as they are going to get), since bad initial reviews might push down first-week sales, when the marketing push is intended to crescendo.
Furthermore, those retail figures do not include Apple stores, where droves of customers flock to purchase their iPods, and more importantly, because that's launch week and any new device (especially one so hyped as the Zune) will almost always set its sales records during its week of launch.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says Wii U sales crested 400K units in its first week, according to internal sales data.
ENGADGET: Nintendo Wii U North American sales top 400K in first week HD
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