Nintendo has announced that life-to-date sales of the Wii have now passed 20 million units worldwide, totalling 20.13 million as of December 31, 2007. This means that in just over one year the motion-controlled console has almost caught up lifetime sales of the GameCube (21.72 million units). This also means that, when broken down, three Wii’s were sold every four seconds worldwide in 2007. Amazon alone sold a Wii every 17 seconds last year – pretty amazing!
The Wii’s 20 million units break down to 8.85 million in the Americas, 4.99 million in Japan and 6.3 million across other territories including Europe.
The Wii has overcome all the shortcomings of the GameCube and truly made Nintendo a competitor again.
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