Famitsu figures reveal that the Wii has broken the five million sales mark in Japan - in just sixty weeks since its laun🐎ch.

This not only makes Iwata's wallet 🌄fatter than Santa Claus, but it also makes the Wii the fastest-selling home console in Nintendo histor🔯y so far.

In comparison, the GameCube only managed 1.68 million units in the same time frame. N64 did 2.31 million, and the Super NES hit a respectable 3.59 million sales, according to the report. While no firm NES figures are apparently available, its eventual success followed what is said to be♕ a fairly weak launch.

1.69 million u♒nits is where the PS3 stood after sixty weeks of shelf time, and we won't even bother with 360 (which has only sold 330,000 units since its 2005 𒉰launch).

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Jan 23, 2008