Wii Hottest Retail Product Online, Amazon.com Most-Visited Site
The Nintendo Wii remained the most popular retail product viewed at leading online retail sites during the week of Nov. 9, according to Compete Inc., which also reported that Amazon.com was by far the most-visited “department store” site during the same week.
The top 5 most viewed products across Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, CircuitCity.com, Target.com, Toysrus.com and Walmart.com during the week were the Wii, Wii Fit, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS Lite and iPod Nano.
Nearly all of the top 10 products were also in the top 10 the previous week. Playstation 3 dropped three places to No. 11, while Mario Kart moved up one place to No. 10:
Amazon’s unique traffic was up 30% from the year-earlier period. Its 30 million weekly visitors outstripped those of second-place Walmart.com 2 to 1:
Walmart’s unique-visitor traffic for the week was up 13% from the year-earlier period, while third-place Target.com’s was up 11%.