We've already known how successful Apple was on the Amazon best-selling lists over the holidays, but this statistic is crazy: Amazon sold 17 Nintendo Wiis per second that the console was actually available!

Just imagine if they would have had an ample supply how much Nintendo would have trounced both Sony and Microsoft - meaning more than they already did (the Wii was the #5 seller in Video Games, the PS3 the #14, and the Xbox 360 all the way down at #24).

The Wii was obviously one of the huge successes of 2007 - one which I foresaw and had a gut feeling about ever since I first saw the Wii back in May of '06. It's a classic example of the idea that while it pays to keep doing what works (the PS3 and the Xbox 360), it can potentially pay a lot more to take a risk and innovate (the Wii). I hope more companies will take that idea to heart in 2008 and follow the examples of Nintendo and Apple.

Now the question for many is, did the Wii rainchecks sell out as well?