DS, Wii reach new milestones Down Under

Nintendo Australia has today announced (finally) its latest sales figures for the Wii and Nintendo DS in Australia and were glad to report its all good. According to the GfK Australia figures, the Nintendo DS has now more than one million units sold within the 153 weeks since its launch. The Wii similarly has passed a record of 300,000 units sold in 58 weeks since launch. For comparisons sake, the last reported figure for the Xbox 360 was also 300,000. This makes both Nintendo DS and Wii officially the fastest selling consoles to reach these milestones. More inside The sales figures for the year and December were also released also. The Nintendo DS was the biggest selling console for 2007, selling 509,869 units. 133,691 of those Nintendo DS units were sold in December. In the process of becoming the fastest console to 300,000 units, Wii sold 73,318 units in December. The Nintendo DS and Wii took out positions 1 and 2 respectively