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Wii becomes fastest-selling console in UK history

Posted by James | Filed under tech

The Nintendo Wii has become the fastest-selling home games console in the history of the UK with sales in excess of six million since it hit the market three years ago.

MCVUK reports that the console hit the milestone in week 48 this year – two years and 51 weeks after it first appeared on the shelves, citing a report by GfK-ChartTrack.

The Nintendo Wii was launched in December 2006 and had sold 185,000 in just a few weeks before going on to sell 1.81 million units in 2007. Its popularity was even greater in 2008 with 2.73 million units sold, and to date in 2009 it has sold 1.31 million units and is expected to build on that figure on the run up to Christmas. The console was also boosted by the release of the black Wii console in mid-November.

Despite the figures, however, the Wii still has some way to go to become the best-selling console of all time in the UK. While it might be the fastest selling console, it still lags behind Sony’s Playstation 2 which has sold around 10 million consoles to date.

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