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Nintendo's Best-Selling Wii Games: Six First-Party Million Sellers

Nintendo revealed six first party-published Wii games that have sold over a million copies worldwide on October 26. IGN reports five out of the six:

1. Wii Sports: 11.1 million
2. Wii Play: 6.3 million
3. Mario Party 8: 2.9 million
4. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree: 1.8 million
5. Mario Strikers Charged: 1.3 million

IGN has apparently made an error and omitted the sixth title. According to user comments at IGN and Wikipedia, the missing title could be either The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (3.61 million), Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (1.82 million), or Super Paper Mario (1.74 million).

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Published: 772 days 15 hours ago | News | Wii

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 772 days 19 hours ago

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Wiisports isn't a real seperate sales number, bundled with Wii's you can't choose for the game.

Furthermore, 6 games that sold more then a million. If I am right, the 360 had 14 games that sold a million or more after a year. It just proves that the Wii doesn't have many good games to sell, although those that sell, sell very well.

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DeckUKold - 772 days 13 hours ago

1.1 - 360 been out a year longer

what a dissapointment

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Bathyj - 772 days 12 hours ago

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Ummm, no ones talking about Xbox you douche.

I swear you could read a toaster review and then say, "But the Xbox has a nicer white finish and you can buy faceplates. Xbox is better than that toaster."

Grow up Mart, your sh*ts so old.

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eclipsegryph - 772 days 11 hours ago

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Actually, MART, Wii Sports isn't bundled ALL over the world. Some people have to purchase it. So it's a valid sales figure.

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ITR - 772 days 3 hours ago

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Wii Sports is not bundled in Japan. It sells for around $40 US over there.

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TruthbeTold - 772 days 15 hours ago

2 - Hate...

For one, Wii Sports isn't packaged with the Wii in Japan. Two, who cares about what the 360 did? This is a Nintendo article. If your chosen system is doing so well, then why act so threatened? Why not just be happy about how great your system is and leave others to enjoy their own choices? There doesn't seem to be a single positive story on this site for any system, where haters visit without leaving an unnecessary pile of crap.

"OMG, Teh suckz Wii had somethin nise sed about it! I shud go an talk crapzorz!"

Pathetic.

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unsunghero28 - 772 days 11 hours ago

2.1 - You know what?

You're absolutely right. Gaming should go back to being about the games.

Everyone who disagreed with you is a douche.

Have a bubble for being one of the rare people around here with a brain.

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Jack Bauer - 772 days 12 hours ago

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take any bad game idea, put mario in it...and whoa!!! it's magically a million seller!!!!

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Ares84 - 772 days 12 hours ago

3.1 - That's true!!

It's 100% correct!! You could sell a steaming pile of cr@p if it had Mario written on it!

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Wii60PS3DSPSP - 772 days 12 hours ago

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Just like you could sell a giant turd with the playstation name on it... Oh snap! lol had to do it.

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unsunghero28 - 772 days 11 hours ago

3.3 - It's funny

Because I like Nintendo and Sony, but I STILL thought Gen16's comment was hilarious!

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forum_crawler - 772 days 5 hours ago

3.4 - What you fail to see is...

That every game with the name Mario in it will most likely have lots of action, and it would be fun to play. Take Strikers, Mario Kart and Party. Those games are super fun to play, and not because they try to be simulators, no, it is because when the name Mario is associated with a game, you know there will be turtles coming at you out of every angle, there will be banana peels, big fire balls, you name it. The Mario universe is extensive enough to offer all kinds of thrills to those who play Mario games.

But if flak cannons, grenades, sniper riffles, and what not is what you consider fun (I do too. UT forever!!!), and only that, do not go on and call Mario games bad games just because they don't offer what you are interested in. There are millions of gamers out there who would disagree with your opinion. I for one am one of them.

Yes, I am a hardcore gamer too, but I use my PC for that. When I want to play fun games, I play wii games. Strikers, Metroid, RE4, and Zelda (Yes I realize that RE4, Metroid, Zelda et.al. are for hardcore gamers too :)).

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DeckUKold - 772 days 12 hours ago

4 - shouldn't ther be a 13 million wiisports?

since Nintendo packed in wii sports in it

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pwnsause - 772 days 12 hours ago

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there are some territories that the wii is not packaged with Wii Sports

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DeckUKold - 772 days 12 hours ago

5.1 - no wii play is not pack in with the wiiconsole

but if it wasn't for the remote i would of never brought it Nintendo has a good marketing scheme and wii sports the guy explain to me is not packed in japan and some other territories

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eclipsegryph - 772 days 11 hours ago

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Regardless of the fact that Wii Play comes with a Wii Remote, people had to actually purchase the game to get the remote. It's simply called good marketing. You'll see the same thing happen with the Wii Zapper, and the included game "Link's Crossbow Training", only in reverse - people will buy the peripheral only to get the game. Nothing wrong with that from a business perspective.

That, and Wii Sports isn't included in the Wii boxed set all over the globe. Some people have to go out and purchase it.

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unsunghero28 - 772 days 11 hours ago

5.3 - 4 million-sellers, eh?

It's almost funny how idiotic people sound if they don't even bother reading the whole intro.

Like, I dunno, the last paragraph?

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djt23 - 772 days ago

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no J ass people have to buy it

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eclipsegryph - 772 days 11 hours ago

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Well then I guess that would technically mean that Nintendo already has 8 first party million selling games. I'm impressed!

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Wii60PS3DSPSP - 772 days 10 hours ago

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Might as well add Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros to that list while your at it.

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calderra - 772 days 10 hours ago

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-They're probably counting pack-in Wii Sports with the rest. That's crap. The number should at least be revised for actual copies sold, and not including pack-in. Does Microsoft get to include all the free copies of Hexic from the original Pro bundle in Hexic's sales?
-And Wii Play is the only source of an extra controller for a lot of people. That's also a very cheap stat.

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360 Wii PS3 Yup - 772 days 9 hours ago

9 - There missing a couple more

I think this is just first party but Red Steel and Rayman RR are also 1 million dollar sellers. Oh and yea go ahead and add Mario Galaxy, Super Smash to that list. Don't count out Zack & Wiki, Resident Evil UC, NiGHTS Journey of Dreams, Metal of Honor Heroes, and Battalion Wars II. All of those games have a chance at maybe getting to a million at some point.

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Rooftrellen - 772 days 8 hours ago

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I don't know about everyone else, but I can't even FIND Zack & Wiki...anywhere; I can't buy or rent it, because its all gone!

I think its a pretty safe bet to break 1 mil.

I wouldn't totally discount MP3 at this point. The first two broke the million point, and there are a lot of yet-to-be-Wii-owners that may well pick it up, if not in the mass numbers we saw the first week.

They are just talking about first party games here, but I do find it interesting that all of the potential million sellers we see comming most are 3rd party.

The question with Brawl and Galaxy, by the way, is not if they will break into the realm of 6 zeros, but if they can break into the realm of 7 zeros. If Brawl or Galaxy were to release 1,000,000 copies at midnight as a promotion, both would be million sellers tomorrow.

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DeckUKold - 772 days 4 hours ago

9.2 - are you sure

come to my area people won't even look at it

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Gahigiddy - 772 days 7 hours ago

10 - These are shipments

Strikers flopped SO hard in Japan, overshipped by 100k I believe.
Wii Sports is bundled almost everywhere, Wii Play is only bought for the Wiimote.

Smooth Moves and Brain Academy and Mario Party 8 are trash, SPM is a made for Gamecube port, and the only third party million sellers are Rayman Raving Rabbids and Red Steel, sending a message out that trash can easily sell, especially to Ubisoft.

That's why Wii will not get good 3rd party software. You bought Wii? Live with spin-offs of our favourite franchises. HAHAHAHA

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MK_Red - 772 days 7 hours ago

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Top Wii sellers: All casual. Hope Metroid Prime 3 and Zack & Wiki both reach sell millions.

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Gahigiddy - 772 days 2 hours ago

12 - Unlikely MK red

Z&W just flopped at Xbox 360 levels in Japan - 6000 first day sales, typically 25% of lifetime sales as Japanese games are frontloaded.
It'll be lucky to reach 18k actually.

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