Nintendo has just announced that they have sold a whopping 600,000 Wii consoles in the US in the first eight days of it’s release. So far, Sony has only released the statement that they have sold “all that they have shipped.”

From the article:

“The company noted that, when taking into account first-party software and accessory sales, Wii sales have thus far amounted to an impressive $190 million. Nintendo also added that sales of the Wii’s highly anticipated launch title, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, has already has achieved sales of more than 454,000 units in the Americas, a figure which it notes represents in excess of of 75 percent of all hardware purchasers.”

According to this data, an average of at least one Wii unit was sold every single second since its November 19th launch.

15,000 PS3s were sold, and 27,000 Wii’s were sold, off of the eBay, during these past few weeks.

Via.