According to a report over on MCV, sales of Wii consoles have jumped a whopping 60 per cent last week, most likely due to the black version of the console helping to stimulate new interest in time for Christmas.

Nintendo says the Black Wii helped the console become the best performing home system of the week, resulting in increased demands for the Wii.

“Of course it would be wrong to attribute all of this to Black Wii as we’re all starting to see a natural peak season uplift on all hardware,” said senior Nintendo product manager Rob Lowe. No not that Rob Lowe. “But we have been really pleased with Wii’s performance over the last couple of weeks and the new Black Wii has certainly contributed to that. In fact Black hardware sales have doubled week-on-week.”

Will this lead to another bout of Wii shortages around the world? Nintendo is trying their best to avoid any stock trouble, but only time will tell.