78,000 Wii Consoles Sold Every Day

[wraggster]

Via retrothinking

Do you like big numbers? Do you? Do you really, sir? You'll like this, then. Nintendo's Wii, the little games console that comes with a free stick for waving around, has become the fastest selling next-generation video games console, selling over a million units in just 2 weeks. That's a hell of a lot of units.

It's selling around 78,000 units a day, considerably more than the PlayStation 3's 22,000 units a day and the Xbox 360's 20,000 units a day.
Dead-on-the-money numbers are still flying higher than the R's Stannah stairlift can go, but numbers here are aggregates compiled from retailers in North America, Japan, Europe and that place Australia is, and are as accurate as you're gonna get.

The Nintendo DS is still sales king overall, selling around a billion units a minute. Way to go, daddy-o.

[juggaleaux]

That DS figure can't be right. I think it's closer to 1.5 billion. :P