Didn't see this posted.

Australia, July 22, 2008 - According to a press release through the intertubes this morning, Nintendo Australia is claiming 500,000 sales of their Wii console in the territory, officiaklly making the Wii the fastest selling home console to sell through 500,000 units in Australia.

The figures were supplied by independent market research company GfK Australia, confirming that 84 weeks since it launched, Wii has sold more than 500,000 units, making it the fastest selling home console to reach this milestone. Previously, the console that held this record reached it in 107 weeks, which makes Wii 23 weeks faster.

Wii launched in December 2006 in Australia.

The week commencing 6 July was the highest individual week of sell through for Nintendo DS hardware in Australia, with more than 49,000 units sold. This is the largest single week sell through ever, for any console in Australia.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/892/892899p1.html

GFK is consumers right? Looks like a 50K or so difference. Right within the 10% parameters.

Further proof the site is doing a great job.

it wont last

The site doing a good job or the sales record?

Cause I mean if it's doing good now nothing should really change formula wise to screw it up...

and another console this generation couldn't beat the record since the time has already passed.

Sure it probably will get beat my some future console... as most records do as "records are made to be broken" but even then it's no gurantee.

Wii is doomed.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEEEDDDDD!

Ahhh It's allways fun to joke like that....

With school holidays here, and an advertising blitz (plus "stock") I'm not surprised the last few weeks have been "huge".

Interestingly DS is only at 8.3K for that week though. Huh. 49K vs 8.5K not at the same 10% ratio... wonder if it was a typo or Ioi needs to look into it... makes me wonder what DS normally sells weekly if it wasn't a typo.

Seems like a lot of DS's for a week in Australia.

So............ rockon2008 was banned?

What gave you that clue? :P

nice find

btw, you got a typo, you mean 50k instead of 500k.