The Nintendo Wii seems unfazed by the economic recession, as the console is dominating the holidays for the third year in a row. The Japanese game company racked up an impressive 2.04 million Wii unit sales in November, more than double the same time last year (when it sold 981,000).

Wedbush Morgan Securities predicted earlier this week that the Wii would sell roughly 1.4 million units, but it outdid even this more than generous estimate. It even beat the same company’s former chart-topped the Nintendo DS, which sold a respectable 1.57 million units.

November saw a second wind to the industry, inflating revenue by 10 points opposed to last year, a ‘blistering’ performance, in NPD analyst Anita Frazier’s own words. NPD kept proposing $22 billion as the overall record-breaking number for 2008, and the data for November confirms this figure.

According to Frazier, one of the reasons the “recession proof” industry of gaming stands strong when other media falter is the expanded audience gaming has due to the wider array of appealing content. In short, gaming has something for everyone.

Here’s a look at sales figures for November, according to PC World.

Hardware

2.04m - Wii

1.57m - Nintendo DS

836k - Xbox 360

421k - PSP

378k - PlayStation 3

206k - PlayStation 2

Looks like Nintendo finally got around to fixing its ‘supply issues’ for the US (which some cynical authors purport to mean it decided the American dollar was good enough for them), but what’s even more jarring is that the Wii outsold the DS, despite the latter costing only about half as much as the former.

Microsoft says that the Xbox 360 decked Sony flat in consoles sales by 3-to-1 during the Black Friday weekend, and had a trump of 2-to-1 over its competitor by the end of November. Internal data cited by Redmond shows that its console has the fastest growth in Europe during November, with sales going up 124% over last year, as opposed to 43% for Wii and 3% for the PS3. Let’s take a look at software now.

 Software

1.56m - Gears of War 2 (360)

1.41m - Call of Duty: World at War (360)

796k - Wii Play (Wii)

697k - Wii Fit (Wii)

637k - Mario Kart (Wii)

597k - Call of Duty: World at War (PS3)

475k - Guitar Hero: World Tour (Wii)

410k - Left 4 Dead (360)

385k - Resistance 2 (PS3)

297k - Wii Music (Wii)

 Game sales went up 11 points year-over-year, and were up 31% over last year. Microsoft stayed ahead in per-unit sales, and held three top-10 positions, while Nintendo moved its own flagship titles. A newcomer is Wii Music, which was launched in October.

With all this talk of console games, we haven’t mentioned the equally impressive achievement of the top-10 PC sellers. We’ll mention only World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, which sold 1.4 million copies in November according to NPD figures.

Well the economy might be in the dumps, but it looks like gaming doesn’t care.