Wii pwns Australia with 500,000 sold

Posted Jul 23rd 2008 2:00PM by Phil Larsen
Filed under: News, Sales

Sure, it may be the most neglected continent in the history of video games, but those crazy Australians are going positively mental for Nintendo all the same. According to industry tracker Gfk, the Wii has just passed the 500,000 mark down under, making it the fastest-selling console in history. Well, Australia's history. Does that still count as cool?

The Wii achieved this monumental feat (remember, there's only 20 million people in Australia) in just 84 weeks since launch in December 2006. On top of the "hey, we're awesome!" announcement, a few new release dates for some hot Wii games have been revealed. Wario Land: The Shake Dimension will be hitting consoles on September 25th, and Trauma Center: Second Opinion (yes, that neglected) is coming out August 28th.

Tags: australia, gfk, sales, trauma-center, wario-land

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-23-2008 @ 2:50PM

CJLopez said...

Good to know more people are getting Wii's. Man, i'm really looking forward to challenge this guys on mario kart wii, they are gonna eat my dust

And for those out there, look for my in the world challenges as CJ!!!

7-24-2008 @ 2:35AM

stibbons said...

Seeing as we're buying all those console, you'd think we'd get some half decent release dates every now and then, wouldn't you?

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