Wii seems to have lost a ton of steam, but I think those initial sales must've kept it ahead....

No matter how bad things get for the Wii, or how good they get for the Xbox 360

, Nintendo's (NTDOY) console will hold on to win the generation, Jesse Divnich, an analyst with EEDAR, projects.

Via Joystiq, the report considers a...

...

http://www.businessinsider.com/nintendos-wii-cant-lose-says-analyst-2009-12

holy crap.

70 million+ sold worldwide.

i'm getting an xbox or ps3 if i ever get a video game system

...

 

In a sign that computer geeks no longer rule the Earth, Nintendo’s Wii, the console that it couldn’t even keep in stores for most of its life, has sold 30 million units. Still not impressed? That figure is for the US only. Worldwide sales to the end of March this year were 71 million.

The Wii is 45 months, or almost four years, old, making it the fastest-selling console of all time, and something of a money-spinner for Nintendo.

...

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/wii-sells-30-million-in-us-signals-the-end-of-the-geek/