Although Wii had a slow and troublesome year in 2009, well down in some months from its record pace in 2008, it sure as hell ended the year with a bang. NPD has reported that 3.81 million units of the Wii were sold in the U.S. in December 2009. This crushes the previous record of 3.03 million units set by DS in December 2008, which DS broke as well this December as it sold 3.31 million units. The previous home console record was that of the PS2 which sold 2.7 million units in December 2003.
This is definitely some record we might hear about for awhile as it took a long time to beat that old PS2 record with the DS and who would have thought the DS one would have been broken the year after. Overall though sales were big in December and we'll see how things play out in 2010.
