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The Wii shortage continues, but still the gamers don’t seem to be frustrated enough to boycott the console. They are currently buying every single Wii that they can get a hold of, and this Wii-lust probably contributed heavily in online retailer Amazon’s holiday windfall. Amazon has recognized the 2007 holiday season as the most profitable in its history. It acknowledged the Wii’s role in making this holiday season its best in terms of sales.

Amazon noted that it sold 17 Wiis per second when they were in stock. The significance of this figure is best realized when one calculates the number of Wiis sold in a single day using this rate (presuming that they were available). The number comes out to be roughly 1.4 million Wii sold everyday (it is obviously hypothetical). This also drives home the point that Nintendo might have lost out due to their shortage over the holidays by missing out on an even greater sales opportunity. As for game titles, the best-selling titles at Amazon, during the holiday season, were Super Mario Galaxy and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

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Nothing signifies Christmas better than that a tree, whether artificial or real. But for the gamers at heart, here’s one located in downtown Madrid, Spain, to brighten up anyone’s holiday—the Pac-Man-themed Christmas tree.

The video peeked my interest when I first came across it on YouTube because I don’t often associate video games with Christmas trees unless its wrapped in a box underneath it. Then I couldn’t help but wonder where in the world this tree really is until the reporter of Clipset starts speaking:

“We learned that in the area of Azca have a Christmas tree that is rather curious and geek, it might even make frighten our Christmas ball (ornaments),” she said. “So we went up there to see a tree whose lights imitate the famous Pac-Man video game.”

The tree is made of thousands of LED lights to animate Pac-Man in his traditional mazes. From what I can see in the video, Pac-Man doesn’t move, which is a bummer but still a very cool tree.

It inspires me to go buy that Mario Santa Hat and ornament and brush off all my little plastic Halo click-set characters and trick out my tree Halo- style this year.

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