Wii and DSDo you know what the top two best selling video game consoles in America are? It's not the Xbox360 or the PS3 (or the PS2 for hat matter!) Nope, it is the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS!

Despite widespread shortages for both systems, more than half a million buyers snapped up the portable Nintendo DSâ„¢, and the Wiiâ„¢ was once again the top-selling new home video game console! Wii remains the fastest-selling new console in more than a decade, based on NPD sell-through information over the first five months of availability. So far this year, Nintendo has sold more video game systems than all other manufacturers combined. - source NPD Group.

"The message delivered by both Wii and Nintendo DS is the same one," says Reggie Fils-Aime, president, Nintendo of America. "Innovation is compelling both current gamers and new gamers to experience a new way to play. Nintendo is bringing gaming back to the masses."

With the first quarter of 2007 now over the Wii has sold over 1 million units in America and the DS stands just shy of 1.25 million units. Wait a minute, a portable game console that came out several years ago is number one??? Not only that but a new console that all of the big players in the video game world were telling us was old tech with gimmicky controllers is number two?

I see a dawning of a new age in the video game world. A world were fun games win out over shoot-em up games. A world where the whole family can sit down together and play video games as a family, not some world where a lonely kid sits in his room with a headset on playing FPS games with a bunch of other lonely kids the world over.

Nintendo may have changed their consoles name from Revolution to Wii but all I can say is that Wii are seeing a Revolution going on right now!