Nintendo ships 50 million Wii consoles, which still isn't enough

Earlier this month, both AMD and IBM announced that they had shipped the 50 millionth Wii GPU and CPU, respectively, so it was only a matter of time before Nintendo came forward to say what everyone was already thinking: the Big N has shipped 50 million Wii consoles worldwide. Today at the outfit's Game Developers Conference keynote, Satoru Iwata confirmed that it had moved "more than 50 million" units, making it "the fastest selling video game hardware in history." Interestingly enough, the company also announced its 100 millionth DS shipment just under a fortnight ago, so it's pretty safe to say things are going well in the Mushroom Kingdom. Now, if only it could get through a Christmas without ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids with procrastinating parents, we'd be able to hand over a "kudos" with a straight face.

[Ozzman79 Posted Mar 26th 2009 4:08PM]

Wow, you mean a bunch of internet nerds on a Gadget site with, in most cases, multiple consoles, and higher expectations then most when it comes to gaming, don't play their Wiis anymore and collect dust? Wow, hold the phone. Who'd have thunk it? Well, then I guess everyone, everywhere should think and behave the same way then, right? We don't like it, so no one should.

Here's a crazy idea. If it's sitting around collecting dust , why don't you sell it and make some money to go buy whatever "revolutionary" new FPS is coming out again this week? If they can sell 50 million new ones, maybe you can sell yours and then they won't be selling as many "new" ones to people and you can help slow their gains?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2009 6:52PM]

haha, true. so much wii hate on here. That evil N company goes and makes a machine where graphics are not life-like so they should be put out of business!! Relax a little bit people, or u are going to have a heart attack before u are 21

[erasure25 Posted Mar 27th 2009 8:00PM]

Good idea! You should definitely sell yours if it's collecting dust. I would, but i don't own one. I just keep thinking about all these hundreds of millions of Wiis ending up in landfills. I guess Wall-e can make use of them...