NPD: Wii Fit sells record 777,000 in January

so many wii's sold but yet only one game worthy of being called exclusive is on there "mario kart wii" why cant all those millions of people buy super mario galaxy and zelda instead to support nintendos first party exclusives instead of the wii "enter name here" games? :( cuz that just makes nintendo wanna make more casual stuff >_

wii again? sheesh .... what is the world coming to ?

It´s incredible how this generation divided gamers in two very different factions: "hardcore" gamers, and "casual" gamers. I think the WII has only 5 or 6 good games, and yet thet rule. That worries me. Because if 90% of WII games suck, but they sell, the average quality of games will decrease (whos going to do a great game and have a lot of risk, if you can do a random game for two bucks and sell it really well?). That´s bad for everyone in the long term. It was really a bad idea to remove the "nintendo quality seal", and, please, consumers: do not expend your money on crappy games! I think Nintendo should be expending some of the money they are earning in doing more quality games. In 2008, Nintendo did nothing except collect millions.

It's funny how, despite the OVERWHELMING PROOF that Wii software overall lacks in quality and hardly any good games are coming out for it these days, fanboys defend Wii till the end. ONE great game's been released in the past YEAR (SSBB--almost a year agp). I'm not even hating--I'm stating facts. I usually like Nintendo, and own a DS. But look at the BEST reviewed games to come out for EACH system for the last SIX months (not including download games): Top 3 Wii: Guitar Hero: WT @ 86.5% avg (a game that's as good or better on PS3 and 360), de Blob (81.5%), and Shaun White (78.6%) Just SOME of the top PS3 and 360 games to come out in that time: Little Big Planet (94.4%), Gears of War 2 (93.2%), Fallout 3 (92.5%, Left 4 Dead (89.3%), NHL 09 (89.4%), (a superior) Rock Band 2 (92%)... and other blockbusters like Street Fighter 4 and Killzone 2 are just around the corner. Seriously, look at REALITY. But hey, have fun "waggling" your controller and playing such "highly anticipated" games as "Deadly Creatures." As a true fan of gaming, this makes me sick.

holy crap. mario kart ds after over 3 years, still making top selling software charts. nsmb is also nearing 3 years old as well.

Once again why do they continue to call Wii play a softwaresale seeing it comes packed with a remote. That would mean that solitare and minesweep should be the top selling game considering it gets sold with every pc/laptop that comes with a MS operating system.... Go Solitare!!!

I gave my gf wii fit for valentines day. NOT LIKE THAT U MORONS!

Wow, what is sony doing? From what I can see, nothing.

My local community fitness center gives out free "aerobic and cardiovascular exercises". And it is taught my professional's. Unfortunately, it is just me and 2 other people in it. But hey, I've lost 15 pounds steadily. And learned how to play badminton at the same time. :D

To Sony I hope you are watching this . Every month it is the same scenario the Wii and DS selling like hot cakes and the X360( both the consoles and software sales) beating the PS3. Please go for an agressive tough marketing campaign, lower your price for the PS3. Even if you have great games like MGS 4 and Killzone 2 it wont change the fact that you are last in this console race.

where the hell are all the ps3 games at lol.

@LindBergh2007 I respect Nintendo, doesn't mean I hate on the other consoles. I actually want a Ps3, if only the price drops. I'm interested in SC4, MGS, PoP, RE5 and probably Resistance 2. As for Wii upcoming Wii titles, I don't need 30 upcoming games that are worth owning.I never really looked that far into it, but I see Overkill,madworld,condult, deadrising,boomblox 2, dead space and maybe others that I can't think of at the moment. I even want games that I missed, No more heroes, Call of duty, Skate it, shaun white, and rock band 2. This is enough to last me a year, and I'm sure good games are still the horizon. This isn't about me alone, since casual gamers will also get their fair share of games worth owning. It's a matter of taste.

This is not really surprising lol...People are always trying to find that easy way to get "Fit" I guess they thought why not give this a try? Kinda like all those dumb people that buy those products that air on late night TV and they never work...

@Pices Don't confuse the kiddies with facts, they might have an aneurysm. :-) I picked up: Deadly Creatures and Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers today. Great fun. Looking forward to Mad World on Mar 10th.

Uh oh, new NDP numbers, here comes the Kindergarden crowd to throw a temper tantrum again. @admiral_picard "I bashed it before owning one. I own one and I STILL think it sucks." I love the reading confessions of enlightened gamers that say the Wii sucked, but then bought one anyway. Too funny.

As long as Nintendo is out saling its competitors there will be fanboys trying to down play its success.

@ LindBergh, no upcoming 30 Wii titles? Zelda - TBA Deadly Creatures - End 2008 Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars - End 2008 Another Code R/Trace Memory R - 2009 Arc Rise Fantasia - 2009 Bleach Versus Crusade - 2009 Boom Blox 2 - 2009 Calling - 2009 The Conduit - 2009 Cosmic Walker - 2009 Cursed Mountain - 2009 Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop - 2009 Dynamic Zan - 2009 Endless Ocean 2: Beautiful Ocean - 2009 Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse - 2009 Final Fantasy CC: The Crystal Bearers - 2009 Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon - 2009 The House of the Dead: Overkill - 2009 Kizuna: Golden Bonds - 2009 Klonoa: Door to Phantomile - 2009 The Kore Gang - 2009 Line Attack Heroes - 2009 Little King's Story - 2009 MadWorld - 2009 Marble Saga: Kororinpa - 2009 Monster Hunter 3 tri~ - 2009 Muramasa: The Demon Blade - 2009 Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers - 2009 Overlord: Dark Legend - 2009 Pikmin 3 - 2009 Punch-Out!! - 2009 Red Steel 2 - 2009 Rune Factory Frontier - 2009 Rygar: The Battle of Argus - 2009 Sadness - 2009 Sherlock Holmes - 2009 Sin and Punishment 2 - 2009 The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces - 2009 Sonic and the Black Knight - 2009 Spawn Smasher - 2009 Spyborgz - 2009 Tact of Magic - 2009 Mothership Tales of... - 2009 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes - 2009 Tenchu IV: Shadow Assassin - 2009 Toshinden - 2009 Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga - 2009 WiiSports Resort - 2009 No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle - 2010 Dracula: Son of the Dragon - 2010 Mario - TBA Dead Space - TBA Mario and Sonic At the Olympic Winter Games - TBA Call Of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 - TBA So....research before you post. Total of 54 games. 6 are casual and 48 are hardcore. 5 games of this list are released (Tenchu 4, Deadly Creatures, Rygar : Battle Of Argus, Mushroom Men and House Of The Dead Overkill).

wow. there r some good games up there. ill admit that im not a fan of wii fit though.

@ taylormadederek that is certainly a fanboy comment..tell you what...the reason why console wars begin one of the reasons is because you fanboys' comment

Who is this admiral picard? He simply doesn't know ANYTHING about the Wii. Fanboys just keep coming

get a ball kick around with friends for half an hour. there you go a free fun exercise.

Wii Fit: The art of paying for free exercises

@dotWithShoes It may be THAT simple but I know what is.........an actual workout ;). It's pretty straight-forward, all you is squat down....and back up.....down.....up. Now that you know how to do squats go to your bedroom and pratice, also be glad your 90 dollars richer hearing it from me instead of Wii Fit ;).

Jfisch, you've never played Wii Fit or used it before have you? If you think its THAT simple.

Just goes to show you should never underestimate the power of value whether real or perceived.

@moose_knuckler Let's get one thing straight pal: people are paying NINETY dollars to "learn aerobics and all the other crap!": :D But no, really, I think the picture is a little more complex than that. First, yeah, it's basically just teaching you exercises, but it's also kind of an exercise video (which have always been money makers) only better since it can tell you if you're doing well or not, can help you breathe properly while attempting them (via the sound of waves rolling in and out), and give you some (vague) advice on how to correct it. It scores you too, and while it may seem silly to chase after a meaningless score, that hasn't stopped people from accumulating XBox gamer points. :D Also, it does have some minigames to show off the balance board (like how Wii Sports and Wii Play show off the Wiimote) while giving a slight workout. Finally, don't forget that some of those sales were more for the hardware than he software, since games are coming out that can use the Balance Board.

It amazes me the way gaming is going. People don't give a hoot about graphics or anything new. they just want cheap. Nintendo gave them cheap and they will continue to do so. Seriously? 70 bucks to learn how to squat? Who doesn't know how to do that? WTF Nintendo, I applaud you. That's a LOT of people who don't know how to exercise. I'm movin' to Australia.

@Sam3231 I had the same thoughts running through my head. I guess the "soft spot" in consumers is to work-out while playing a video game lol. I personally think it's ridiculous how some game telling you how to work out (maybe there's some mini-games, not exactly sure) would sell so well. If you ask me I say it's degrading, since when do you need to pay $69 (I think that's how much it is) to learn aerobics and all the other crap you do on there?

Wii-fit a lame exercise sim that has horrible graphics and that people only buy for novelty purposes. Yes of course that's all people are buying and the fanboys keep hoping for Nintendo to convince 3rd party publishers to put better titles on the Wii then the crap that's already on it. But keep getting dissapointed and watching the casual gaming market destroy the software industry. Sony now in serious trouble and now watching SEGA very carefully with dismal console sales. Mircosoft faring well, but waiting for more titles. On top of that no NEW games are selling, it's still the same old Wii novelty games and it's periphrels The same old Wii-Play and Mario Kart Wii. That it and it's still hard to believe that fanboys are getting excited over this when they have nothing new to play.

thetravman. You're a hypocrite and so are the other Nintendo fanboys. It's also too bad you can't even list 30 upcoming Wii titles worth owning.

wow wii and ds combined is more then ps3 psp ps2 and 360 combined sales , 360 and wii and ds are doing very impressively good, compared to sony wii will be at 60 million by end of the year if this continues, which it will, oh and ya stop hating, i will always play nintendo no matter what, its who ive \known since i started gaming and if any ones gonna go and say stop , then you know what you can do right lo,l, their games library runs circles around sonys any day, i like microsofts to , awsome, when you combine gears halo mario zelda pd0 banjo kazooie dead rising metroid mariokart mario party red steel etc you got one heck of a line up to work through, what can sony offer besides hm lets see , clones resistance =gear with new characters , motorstorm=excite truck with fancier graphics , socom and rACHET IS ALL I SEE ORIGINAL, BESIDES GT WHICH IVE GOT bored of over the years,

Ridiculous. I know when nintendo announced wii fit I was like "lol what a piece of crap, how is that supposed to sell?" but I guess they really hit a soft spot for consumers.

@admiral_picard Sorry to bring you down from your Kool-Aid induced, paranoid delusions, but the things you were saying the Wii and the GameCube just made me laugh out loud. Seriously the PS2 was better than the GameCube? I’m just wondering how you came to that conclusion? The GameCube’s graphics were far better than anything that the PS2 was capable of producing. Just a little technical note for you, all the cut scenes in RE4 for the PS2 were all pre-rendered video because the PS2 couldn’t render the graphics on the fly like the GameCube could. This is why if you had a different outfit on in the PS2 version it wasn’t reflected in the cut scenes. And as for you rant about no real games for the Wii, you know I get so tired of listing off all the great games that are out there for the system and those coming in the months ahead. Bottom-line, if you can’t find any good games for the Wii then you just aren’t looking. The controls gimmicky? Not if they are done right. Playing a FPS on the Wii is the best way to play that kind of game. Anyone who has ever played Metal of Honor 2 or COD: World at War knows exactly what I’m talking about. Hell even Sonic Unleashed plays better on the Wii than any other version. Yeah, yeah we all get it; you hate the Wii for X number of reasons. We’ve all heard it before and you know something, no matter how many times you and your fellow Wii-haters out there post your same tried old comments every month, still doesn’t change the facts as they are now does it?

Funny how it was always the PS3/360 being forecasted as the generation winner, yet the Wii completely put that to silence. It's combating increasing obesity in the US, making brain games actually cool to play, & even has a butt board for the dang thing! I want a buttboard for my PS3!!

Guess this explains why I've heard Wii Fit can't be found anywhere. Good thing I already have it.

wow what happened to sony ? 2 hundred thousand ,, thats like what ps2 was doing when ps3 was released lol not that impressive also psp and ps2 fell to the 1 hundred mark , hm, shows whos on top, and software is all nintendo ds wii and 360 lol, no psp ps2 ps3 odd,

Wonder what the report of obese people says? So 777,000 people SHOULD be losing weight. That's good for them and also good for Nintendo.

stop hating on nintendo. so what if their games "are for kids"? let the kids have their fun, too. if i remember right, we were all once kids and we used to, at least i used to, play nintendo games, had hours and hours of fun playing mario and zelda and all the other cool games. well, i'm not a kid anymore and i don't own, nor am i planning to get a Wii. some of you "grown ups" really need to grow up.

Good to see that things are still selling

Sales are looking good for Nintendo. More money to invest in their future generation consoles. Well done Nintendo.

Ahhh yes, another flame war begins anew.

@kejigoto FACT: The "great games" you cite are just plain BAD. Wii's drought of quality software is continuing (not that it seems to matter obviously). But Tenchu? 70.7% aggregate rating on Gamerankings.com. Deadly Creatures? Barely cracked 70%. House of the Dead is at a respectable 80.7%, but it's far from a blockbuster (despite that it's the highest rated game in the past 3 months! --second highest is Shaun White at 78%). So, seriously, how can you say that new, quality games are coming out "one after the other"? Please. I've looked at the aggregate ratings of all the games on each system. The best overall, according to the site, are 360, then PS3, then Wii is a distant 3rd--even when you only look at, say, the top-rated 30 games for each system. Don't believe me? See the unbias reviews for yourself at Gamerankings.com or Metacritic.com.

" mikemaj82 Posted Feb 12, 2009 9:43 pm MT Wii fit is a joke...it's for typical lazy americans who don't wanna go outside and enjoy the world." Says the person sitting at their computer.

How the hell is Wii Fit and Wii Play ahead of Mario Kart Wii!!! Those games are BORING!!!! And CoD5 behind!!! That's stupid!!!

um who cares?

@teknicz Actually it's not even a matter of agreeing or disagreeing. If someone says "These games (such as the new FF) could possibly help increase their sales," that's a fact--they potentially could. It's not about being right or wrong. But instead you have stupid, immature fan boy haters who, just by hearing the name of a competing system, say/think something like "screw that, Sony and MS totally suxxxx Wii rullezzz 4 life yeah woo-hoo!" And I'm just expressing my disappointment in how stupid/immature those people are. I'm all about banter, but at least have a valid argument/point to what you're saying.

Nobody seems to understand that the Wii is a gimmick. It's cheap, and has good word of mouth. It won't be around much longer. Wii fit is a joke...it's for typical lazy americans who don't wanna go outside and enjoy the world.

This fricken site is filled with hardcore gamers and I see alot of bashing on Nintendo, even though they dominate in software and hardware sales. Talk is cheap. My uncle and his family recently bought Wii fit, and it's great to see that they all enjoy it. They never used to play video games. I think it's great what Nintendo is doing, and yet I'm satisfied with its library of hardcore games. The ps3 and 360 looks good, but I'm seeing alot of FPS games.

Wii Fit isn't an exercise in itself. It's just a series of movements, without stressing your body that much at all. Anyway, impressive sale numbers. Besides the Wii (which hasn't received an awesome game in almost a year), the 360 moves the software. That's the difference between the 360 and ps3 right now, the software. Sorry Sony, but Killzone isn't that big of a franchise to pull millions of ps3 off of store shelves. Even GTA (a once in a time PS exclusive) got more sales on the 360. Not being a fanboy over here, I'm just analyzing the facts. And a price drop sure would be nice on the ps3, but, in a slumping economy can anyone see that happening without people losing their jobs? Looks like 2009 isn't going to be the huge comeback of the ps3 after all. Maybe 2010...

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA no PS3 games in the top 10