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45.7 million Wii Sports, 22.9 million Wii Plays sold

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted May 8, 2009 12:36 pm PT

Nintendo reveals new stats for 27 first-party platinum sellers; Nintendogs hits 22.2 million, New Super Mario Bros. 18.4 million, Wii Fit 18.2 million, Mario Kart Wii 15.4 million.

Nintendo may be facing weakening demand in its home market, but its products continue to enjoy substantial demand in other regions across the globe. Yesterday, that demand came into focus when the publisher reported a 9.9 percent rise in its fiscal year earnings, to ¥1.83 trillion ($18.5 billion). A resounding clamor for software on both of Nintendo's best-selling platforms helped fuel that growth, with 197 million DS and 204 million Wii games sold during the period.

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Today, Nintendo provided an update on sales figures for its first-party-published games, revealing that it now has 27 games that have broached the million-unit mark during its fiscal year. First among those best-sellers remains Wii Sports, which is sold as a stand-alone game in Japan but comes packed in with Nintendo's console in North America. The sports minigame compilation has now sold 45.7 million units since its November 2006 launch, easily outpacing Wii Remote pack-in Wii Play's 22.9 million units.

DS software sales offer a bit of a closer race in the best-selling game category. Nintendogs remains ahead of the pack, having now sold 22.2 million units through the publisher's fiscal year. However, New Super Mario Bros. and the original Brain Age aren't far off the animal-training simulator's heals, with the former having sold 18.4 million units and the latter at 17.4 million units. All three games have previously been the subject of hardware bundles.

A full list of Nintendo's million-unit sellers during the period can be found below.

Nintendo Wii
Wii Sports - 45.7 million
Wii Play - 22.9 million
Wii Fit - 18.2 million
Mario Kart Wii - 15.4 million
Smash Bros. Brawl - 8.4 million
Super Mario Galaxy - 8 million
Mario Party 8 - 6.7 million
Link's Crossbow Training - 3.8 million
Animal Crossing: City Folk - 3.4 million
Wii Music - 2.6 million
Mario Super Sluggers - 1.3 million

Nintendo DS
Nintendogs - 22.2 million
New Super Mario Bros. - 18.4 million
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day - 17.4 million
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - 16.8 million
Mario Kart DS - 14.6 million
Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day - 13.7 million
Animal Crossing: Wild World - 10 million
Super Mario 64 DS - 7.5 million
Mario Party DS - 5.8 million
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness - 4.5 million
Pokemon Platinum - 3.7 million
Kirby Super Star Ultra - 2.3 million
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia - 2 million
Rhythm Heaven - 1.9 million
Personal Trainer: Cooking - 1.8 million
Professor Layton and the Curious Village - 1.6 million*

*Nintendo notes that this figure does not include Japanese sales, given that it published the game only outside of Japan.

325 Comments

  • RobboElRobbo

    Posted Jul 10, 2009 12:08 pm PT

    And Wii Fit is just pathetic like how the hell do people fall for buying such crap?

  • RobboElRobbo

    Posted Jul 10, 2009 12:08 pm PT

    Mario Kart Wii is like the best game for Wii

  • gggamezzz

    Posted May 14, 2009 12:12 pm PT

    ....oh and Brawl is better than MK. Just thought I'd throw that in there too.

  • gggamezzz

    Posted May 14, 2009 12:11 pm PT

    Have you noticed that only the older Wii and DS games are on this list with the exception of Rhythm Heaven and Pokemon Platinum? It's sad that they release so many games and none of them sell as well as their older products (Not saying that they're bad games). Seriously, Nintendogs is the top selling DS game? Nintendo needs to step up their game. They can't sit on the sales of old products forever.

  • sneakysnake128

    Posted May 13, 2009 2:32 pm PT

    Just owning a Wii doesn't make you a gamer.

  • sgfreak37

    Posted May 12, 2009 10:30 pm PT

    @nappan

    I totally agree with you nappan, MK is better then SSB. The thing for me is that MK is fun With or without friends. Wile SSB really isn't that fun by yourself after you have played through it a few times. I don't have much time to play with friends anymore, and I always seem to pull out MK over SSB most of the time. At least when I want to play something different from what I've been playing for hours and hours on end..

  • nappan

    Posted May 12, 2009 5:29 pm PT

    Oh, I'll jump in here... I don't even own a Wii anymore, but I'll say it: MK owns Brawl. It came first, and it is still probably the BEST combat racing game. Granted, that is also a commentary on combat racing as a genre, but the MK titles have consistantly pleased both old and young... the gameplay is VERY solid. SSB is pretty good, and definitely innovative, but it just wasn't as FUN in my opinion. I still play MarioKart on my GC ... never fails to make me smile, and it is still great to play splitscreen.

  • El_Conrado

    Posted May 12, 2009 1:07 pm PT

    @Flint247:

    Mario Kart has always being more popular than Super Smash Bros. Remember MK started on the SNES and there have been six games in the series, whereas Brawl is the 3rd.

  • Flint247

    Posted May 12, 2009 1:01 pm PT

    How is MK wii higher than Brawl?

  • El_Conrado

    Posted May 12, 2009 12:59 pm PT

    Rottenwood:
    "And some consumers are probably still recovering from a bad case of 'Sunshine Burn' from Mario's subpar GameCube adventure."

    You know, people keep saying that, but I don't see it anymore.

    I must admit that when the game (Sunshine) first came out, I was extremelly dissapointed, so I finished it and put it away, not even bothering to find the 120 shines.

    But then, a couple of years later, I pulled it back out and gave it another shot, and you know what? It's not half bad. It's actually pretty good.

    I suppose that since the initial shock of "this is not Mario/FLUDD is a gimmick" washed away, I could finally see this game for itself, and it is a very well made game, with a lot of fun challenges.

    I still rank it as the worst of the propper Mario platformers, but being the worst, it is still better than 95% of the platformers out there, and that's a testament to the series as a whole.

    brendanhunt1:
    "atleast wii wont get anywhere near ps2 sales"

    Dude, the Wii reached 50 million units a full year earlier than the ps2 did, and it hasn't had a single price drop yet. It's already the second fastest selling gaming system ever made (the fastest is the DS).

    Do you want to reconsider that statement?

  • Rottenwood

    Posted May 12, 2009 12:32 pm PT

    @nappan

    And some consumers are probably still recovering from a bad case of 'Sunshine Burn' from Mario's subpar GameCube adventure.

  • brendanhunt1

    Posted May 12, 2009 11:49 am PT

    atleast wii wont get anywhere near ps2 sales

  • nappan

    Posted May 12, 2009 11:48 am PT

    @Rottenwood: I'd count on sales of some of those games steadily rising. Personally, I didn't even BUY a GameCube until the next gen was out... and then I bought the games I wanted that had been published over the life of the console. I may well do the same with the Wii, and who knows how many others will as well?

  • Rottenwood

    Posted May 12, 2009 9:48 am PT

    Say what you will about Wii Sports: it still gets dug out for the occasional romp, while the blockbusters of last year collect dust.

    A little disappointed at Galaxy's sales, though. Eight million is a lot, but for a Game of the Year in a legendary franchise, I thought it'd be higher. It'll probably get packed in with the Wii down the road and get those numbers inflated. Glad the New Super Mario Bros. was a monster for the DS... keep 2D alive!

  • DiscGuru101

    Posted May 12, 2009 5:52 am PT

    I still play Wii Sports, and, more than any other game for the Wii. It goes down in history along side of all the other greatest games ever. Simple. Pure. Genius. Anyone can be good at it.

    Almost everyone I pushed Wii Play onto in California were revolted though. For me it's fun in very small doses. Although constant use of the light pointer for anything other than shooting or clicking is annoying.

  • Mr_Fujiv1

    Posted May 12, 2009 3:54 am PT

    i find that nintendo have in a sense gone down hill as in coming up with the idea of all this motion control stuff i just wished they did something with the 64 but they have done better with their sales which isnt a bad thing

  • -Squirrel-

    Posted May 11, 2009 10:20 pm PT

    Go Big N, nice job. Now just get me Super Mario Galaxy 2, LoZ Spirit Tracks, and Pikmin 3. E3 is gunna be pretty huge for Nintendo this year, so don't count them out of good software yet.

    Nintendo has more pressure put on them than any other developer, so everyone needs to cut them a lil' slack, at least until E3. Squenix, Bethesda, or Bungie can go a long time without putting out a smash hit and people just wait and anticipate, but if Nintendo doesn't pop out 5+ hits a year than people demonize them. The games are coming and Nintendo has promised a big E3; Iwata can barely keep his mouth shut.

  • Dark_sageX

    Posted May 11, 2009 5:13 pm PT

    those numbers mean absolutely nothing to me anymore.

  • LindBergh2007

    Posted May 11, 2009 4:52 pm PT

    Guess what? New rumors now suggest that SEGA may be getting in the casual gaming business as well with it's RingEdge.

    http://fgnonline.webs.com/

    "With the Nintendo Wii hitting retail and gaining worldwide superstardom of the likes never witnessed SEGA SAMMY once again immediately got to work on another system with orders from the boss himself Satomi-san. This system shall be a HD casual console and is designed to compete with the successor to the Wii. The design of the system FGN can officaly confirm was finalised in late 2008, it's arcade variant goes by the name "RINGEDGE" the specifications of the system are as follows."

    If there's a Wii HD. RingEdge may be competing against it.

  • gatsbythepig

    Posted May 11, 2009 4:50 pm PT

    N is a monster.

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