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Last Updated: Thursday March 26 2009 09:13 GMT

Wii is fastest selling console

Nintendo Wii

The Nintendo Wii is the fastest selling games console of all time, with more than 50 million of them now sold.

It took Nintendo 28 months to sell 50m Wiis, beating the old record set by Sony's PlayStation 2 by eight months.

The news was revealed at a big event in America for the people who make video games. And Nintendo announced some new features for the Wii at the same time.

One of the key developments will let Wii gamers use much bigger memory cards to store their saved games on.

The boss of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, also said that the company has sold more than 100m of its DS consoles.