Amazon.com on Tues. restocked Nintendo Co.'s Wii and quickly sold out within minutes. The online retailer made available the Wii console at 9 a.m. PST and sold out to eager buyers in about 12 minutes.

The brisk sales allowed Wii to rank No. 5 in the best-selling Computer & Video Games division. Products in the top five products include the Wii Nunchuk controller, Wii Remote, and Wii Play.

Wii was the best-selling video hardware in Jan., outperforming Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 and Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 by a large margin.

Nintendo has shipped 3.19 million Wii units worldwide to date. It expects to ship 6 million units by fiscal Mar. 2007.