Wii sales hit 80k in Australia

The Xbox 360 may still have the largest installed base of all the next-gen consoles in Australia, but the Wii is catching up - with 80,000 consoles sold since December.

The figure comes from News.com, which is also reporting that 160,000 Xbox 360 units have now been sold in the region. Microsoft's console has been on sale for just over a year, while the Wii launched five months ago.

PlayStation 3 hit Australian shops on March 23, and since then 36,000 units have reportedly been sold.

The Xbox 360 became Australia's fastest-selling console when it launched exactly a year earlier - but that record was later broken by the Wii, with 32,000 units shifted in four days.

Sony failed to take the title with PlayStation 3, as the launch weekend figure stood at 20,000 consoles. However, according to data tracker GfK, the PS3 launch caused "a spike in retail spending not previously witnessed at the launch of any other console in Australia".