Europeans bought more than 8 million Wii for a year.

The company Nintendo has sold over the past year, 8.3 million Wii consoles in Europe, reports MCV. That is 58 percent higher than the company was able to realize in 2007. Previously, no one manufacturer of home consoles have been able to achieve similar results in just 12 months.
Portable console Nintendo DS was also able to set the record, reached the mark in the 11.2 million sold gaming systems. Total to date Europeans bought 14.2 million Wii. Total sales of DS in the region amounted to 31 million consoles. Add that the Wii launch in Europe at the end of 2006, and DS was introduced in March 2005.
Earlier this month, Microsoft representatives said that in the EMEA-region (which includes Europe, Africa and the Middle East), the company was able to realize more than 8 million Xbox 360 prefixes. According to them, this is more than a million consoles more than the sale of PlayStation 3.
At the moment, Wii is the most successful console of this generation. According to a rough estimate, Nintendo has sold worldwide over 45 million prefixes. Second place is the Xbox 360 game system. As Microsoft argued that to date sold more than 28 million consoles. Precise data on the sales going to the last PlayStation 3 yet. An estimated Microsoft, Sony sold the company about 20 million prefixes.