Soundwave on 25 April 2013
I think it still would probably qualify as the most profitable game console ever made (home console anyway)?
Nintendo was making bank on it, it's the definition of catching lightning in a bottle.
I remember the biggest radio station in town asking people to call in whenever they spotted a store that had any Wii in stock so listeners could go rush the store and get one, they had traffic updates and Wii updates, lol. And this was like several months after it launched.
