Almost 60,000 a day since its launch
AMD has announced it has shipped the 50 millionth ATI Holywood
GPU for Nintendo's Wii console. This makes Hollywood the best selling
AMD console GPU, significantly surpassing previous console GPU
shipments.
Nintendo has used ATI chips on a number of its products over the past
decade, but the Wii's success has surpassed them all. Since its
introduction in Nobember 2006, close to 50 million units have been
shipped worldwide, with 44.96 million units shipped by December 31 2008.
On average, almost 60,000 Wii consoles were sold each day over the past
two and a half years, which is truly a mind boggling figure.