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Nintendo: 26 Games Games Break 1m

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By Kris Graft

January 30, 2009

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These days, Nintendo is no stranger to million-plus selling software.

Between the Wii and DS, Nintendo on Friday reported a total of 26 titles that have sold over 1 million units during the current fiscal year; the large majority well over 1 million.

Amongst non-bundled games, 2005’s Nintendogs for DS led the charge with 21.67 million units sold worldwide as of Nintendo’s fiscal Q3 ended in December.

New Super Mario Bros. from 2006 followed with 17.63 million units sold.

Overall, bundled games included, Wii Sports has sold the most with 40.5 million units (the game was not bundled in Japan).

Below are life-to-date sales as of December 2008 for games that sold over 1 million units during the fiscal year.

Spreadsheet by Edge. Updated for clarity.

Top_Dollar's picture
On February 1st Top_Dollar said:

Of the eleven Wii games, only two would be called top drawer: Super Smash Bros.Brawl & Super Mario Galaxy. Those two games could've easily been developed for the NGC.

The rest are mediocre to say the least.

Digital-Hero's picture
On February 1st Digital-Hero said:

Ha, wow. Wii Music is on the list, what a stupid piece of software. It was a waste of time and human energy developing such a fecal matter of a product.

Kenology's picture
On February 1st Kenology said:

Ok guys, this list is only made up of all the games which have sold more than one million units since April 2008. So Twilight Princess, Super Paper Mario, Mario Strikers Charged, Metroid Prime 3, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, etc. are not included.

Here's a direct link to Ninty's financial report which shows this: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2009/090130e.pdf

SOJ's picture
On January 31st SOJ said:

Hmm...there's something wrong with this. Where are both Zelda games, Metroid Prime 3, WarioWare: Smooth Moves etc.?

Kenology's picture
On January 31st Kenology said:

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree and Super Paper Mario are missing too. The latter was confirmed to pass 1 million copies in the US alone back in 2007.

Kris Graft's picture
On February 2nd Kris Graft said:


Thanks Ken, for pointing that out. I've made that clear in the piece.

Weeble's picture
On January 31st Weeble said:

I'm amazed that neither Zelda title, Twilight or Phantom, are on the list.

SCTakara's picture
On January 30th SCTakara said:

While I'm glad to see this success, is this list only of 1st party games? I'd love to see how many 3rd party games passed the 1million mark.

toadwarrior's picture
On January 30th toadwarrior said:

On the Wii I wouldn't be suprised if the number is less 1 million+ sellers from 3rd parties was less than 5, tbh.

Aside form Capcom, I don't think anyone's put any real effort into the Wii yet except perhaps Frontier's Lost Winds. http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/lostwinds/

E. Zachary Knight's picture
On January 30th E. Zachary Knight said:

While not naming names, Nintendo says that there are 30 3rd party Wii titles that have sold over a million as of December 2008

http://www.edge-online.com/news/iwata-third-parties-finding-wii-ds-succe...

SCTakara's picture
On January 30th SCTakara said:

I wish they would name names, though. While I'm glad there's a number of titles, I'd like to know which ones. More curiosity than anything else, I'll admit.

squazzil4's picture
On January 30th squazzil4 said:

Give it 6 months and u have 14.1 million garages with a wii fit in them. Is this really good for the industry?

Ozzman_79's picture
On January 30th Ozzman_79 said:

Then, 2 months from now, the comment will read "Give it 6 months and u have 17 million garages with a wii fit in them"

Then, 6 months from that, the comment will read "Give it 6 months and u have 22 million garages with a wii fit in them"

We've heard this same kind comment time and time again; it's even less clever or likely now as it was a year ago.

toadwarrior's picture
On January 30th toadwarrior said:

Ever since the launch of the Wii the other system's fanboys keep saying it won't be long until the Wii is dead and shove in millions of attics, for sale at garage sales, etc.

Yet this hasn't happened yet. Keep wishing though it will eventually happen.

savagehenry's picture
On January 30th savagehenry said:

In about 10years when the life cycle is up..

SCTakara's picture
On January 30th SCTakara said:

How is that any different than any other game or piece of fitness equipment?

Tycalibre's picture
On January 30th Tycalibre said:

How would it be bad?