In case you weren’t convinced, Nintendo wanted to hammer home the fact that the Wii and Nintendo DS are the two fastest selling game consoles in the history of EVER.

Almost immediately after taking the stage at GDC today, Satoru Iwata tooted this Nintendo horn and confirmed that they had shipped 50 million Wii consoles around the world, nearly all of which have disappeared instantly from store shelves as if they were Beanie Babies and this were 1996. Similarly, the Nintendo DS and its various redesigns have shipped over 100 million units across the globe, four of which are sitting on my desk. Not a bad trend, especially these days.

Press release after the break!

NINTENDO PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES WII STORAGE SOLUTION, NEW ZELDA GAME AND 50 MILLION GLOBAL WII SHIPMENT

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SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, 2009 – Nintendo President Satoru Iwata today revealed surprises for consumers and an expanded palette of video game development opportunities for the industry during his keynote address at the Game Developers Conference. Iwata announced a new storage solution for Nintendo’s Wii™ home console and showed video highlights of a new Nintendo DS™ game from The Legend of Zelda™ franchise.

Video game developers now have expanded opportunities given that worldwide shipments for the Wii system surpassed 50 million units and worldwide shipments for the Nintendo DS franchise are at more than 100 million units. Iwata said, “It is in the power of game developers to invent things that gamers have never seen – or even imagined – before.”

Nintendo also noted several key initiatives that are on the way for consumers, some of which are available at the Nintendo GDC booth.