Wii first console to hit 5 million in Japan since 1990

[Joshawott 7]

On January 20th, 2007 according to IGN reporting on Famitsu data and our own Vgchartz Japan Weekly Preview data Wii hardware sales passed 5.0 million units in sixty weeks of sales - which makes Wii the quickest console to reach 5.0 million units in Japan since at least 1990.

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That is an average of just over 80,000 Wii sold per week in Japan. To understand the magnitude of that accomplishment, I have assembled historical lifetime sales numbers for Japanese platforms at week sixty.

By reaching over 5 million on January 20th, 2008

[Jesus 0]

First of all, FIRST POST. YES. Second of all, that's amazing. xD

[Sentri 1]

ha ha, wii is better

[Adr990 2]

Wii rocks! Wii will rock!

[Gingerlink 2]

Correction, first *NINTENDO* *HOME* console to hit 5 million in Japan since 1990.

In fact, the DS even reached 5 million in a shorter time than the wii...think it was something like 56 weeks.

[The Minish Link 1]

SWEEEET.

May I ask just WHAT WAS IT that was the other console that sold 5 million or whatever the number was in Japan in 1990?

[Gingerlink 2]

SNES, as sirJoshizzle says, sold roughly 17 million in Japan.

well, that wouldn't have been the SNES actually, that doesn't even exist in Japan, it would've been the super Famicom