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]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-26-2007 @ 3:54PM
worm said...
In what way is 2.89 million "over half as much" as 6.32 million?
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10-26-2007 @ 3:56PM
David Hinkle said...
Whoops, had a brain fart. Thanks for the correction worm!
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10-26-2007 @ 6:54PM
Algernon said...
what about metroid?
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10-26-2007 @ 7:01PM
Eddie said...
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)!
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10-28-2007 @ 12:32PM
troy said...
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.
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