 In Japan the Wii surpassed the number of GameCube units sold by January 2008 ; it sold 7 @,@ 526 @,@ 821 units by December 2008 , according to Enterbrain . According to the NPD Group the Wii surpassed the Xbox 360 to become the best @-@ selling " next @-@ generation " home video @-@ game console in Canada ( with 813 @,@ 000 units sold by April 1 , 2008 ) , and was the best @-@ selling home console for 13 of the previous 17 months . According to the NPD Group the Wii had sold a total of 1 @,@ 060 @,@ 000 units in Canada by August 2008 , making it the first current @-@ generation home console to surpass the million @-@ unit mark in that country . In the United Kingdom the Wii leads in current @-@ generation home @-@ console sales with 4 @.@ 9 million units sold as of January 3 , 2009 , according to GfK Chart @-@ Track . On March 25 , 2009 at the Game Developers Conference , Satoru Iwata said that worldwide shipments of Wii had reached 50 million . 
