Yesterday, a weird report surfaced over at
GAF showing some sales data that seemed to support the word that Nintendo sold 13.17 million Wii consoles worldwide. We danced here at the Wii Fanboy offices, but we couldn't understand the rest of the report. It was in language so ancient and beautiful that our lowly little retinas could not decipher the information it held within.
Then, a hero emerged, silent and mysterious, to translate the script for all of us lowly mortals. What was within the report was both equal parts shocking and exciting. Well, maybe more of the latter, but you get the idea. It's good news!
The report shows that
Wii Play has sold over 6.32 million worldwide, with
Mario Party 8 selling
over almost half as much with 2.89 million worldwide. Other notable titles include
Super Paper Mario (1.74 million),
Mario Strikers Charged (1.33 million) and
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (1.38 million). Of course, the top seller is
Wii Sports, which has sold 11.86 million (930,000 units sold in Japan), which isn't surprising considering it comes bundled with the system here in the United States.
Update: It's
almost ... not
over. Silly me.
[Via
GoNintendo]
{ Oct 26th 2007 at 2:15PM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
worm @ Oct 26th 2007 3:54PM
In what way is 2.89 million "over half as much" as 6.32 million?
David Hinkle @ Oct 26th 2007 3:56PM
Whoops, had a brain fart. Thanks for the correction worm!
Algernon @ Oct 26th 2007 6:54PM
what about metroid?
Eddie @ Oct 26th 2007 7:01PM
I picked a fine time to quit on Nintendo, I still remember defending poor gamecube while salivating over my friends playing GTA and SOCOM on their Ps2s.
I still bought a Wii, but don't play (or own) anything but Sports.
I have to say, those are ATROCIOUS attach rates. It's a good thing Wii is profitable out of the box (no pun intended)!
troy @ Oct 28th 2007 12:32PM
Attach rates? People only have these six first party games to choose from? There's a lot of software in most players' libraries at this point. At least all the ones I know.