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A direct comparison between the first 11 weeks of Wii and SNES sales shows that Wii is the fastest selling Nintendo console ever - nearly 1.6 million for Wii compared to 850,000 for SNES. SNES went on to sell 17 million in total - can Wii emulate the success of Nintendo back when they originally dominated the industry?