Well, isn’t this something. Most of us already know that the 360 outsold the PS3 3-to-1 this past Thanksgiving holiday, but this is a whole other story. Today, Reuters has reported that the Nintendo Wii has meet the demand for this past Thanksgiving week and the sale have increased since last year.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Reuters in an interview that more than 800,000 Wii systems were sold in the US during the week of the Thanksgiving holiday, more than double the 350,000 units it sold in the same period a year earlier.

“When the economy is strong, people tend to buy three things from the top of their wish list. But when things are bad, people often buy only the first thing on their list,” Iwata said. “Fortunately for us a lot of shoppers put our products at the top of their list.”

Iwata also said sales of its DS handheld were up about 20 percent during the Thanksgiving holiday week in the U.S. compared with a year earlier.

Unlike some company’s we know, Square-Enix!, Atlus knows how to cater to their fans, by the way I was just kidding about that statement. While checking out a demo for “Persona 4″ last week, MTV’s Multiplayer Blog noticed that “Persona 4″ was shipping on December 9, which is a date before Christmas but after the Thanksgiving sales rush, Black Friday. So why not just wait until January or February, when people might have gift cards, etc.?

“The one problem is from a retail standpoint, retailers are very averse, across the board, to bringing anything in after Thanksgiving,” said Atlus’ manage of public relations and sales Aram Jabbari. “If they can avoid any product in December, they will.”

Until February, Jabbari explained, retailers want to move their excess stock. They don’t want new products. Atlus recently received word “Persona 4″ is approved for release and will hit its release date. If that hadn’t happened…

“What that means is, if a game [like 'Persona'] is to slip and it was set for the first week of December, it’s essentially the kiss of death,” said Jabbari.“Every retailer would cancel orders. That’s why you don’t see many games coming out December through February.”

[‘Persona 4′ Must Release On December 9 Or Receive The ‘Kiss Of Death’ From Retail via MTV]