Wii blasts Amazon pre-order records!

Just seven minutes! Thats how long it took before the Wii pre-orders were full at Amazon UK. Making Wii the fastest selling product in the site's history.

"The response was phenomenal", James Schall, Amazon games manager, told gamesindustry.biz. "It's the fastest-selling pre-order item we have ever encountered - even eclipsing Harry Potter and Coldplay." If you managed to get your pre-order in on time give yourself a pat on the back.

Amazon UK chose to take pre-orders for Wii only after receiving allocation figures from Nintendo, to ensure being able to meet all orders placed. The number of pre-orders was not revelead by Amazon but the expect to get more wii'w around the 8th of december.