In little over 60 weeks, the Wii console has managed to sell over 5 million units in its home territory of Japan. As impressive as this is, it falls short of the DS, which achieved sales figures of this nature in 56 weeks. But, the Wii did manage to beat the PS2, which cracked the 5 million mark after 66 weeks on the market.
A system is only so good as its games though, right? Well, in Japan the games pushing the Wii are Wii Sports (2.6 million copies sold as of now), Wii Play (2.1 million copies sold as of now), Mario Party 8 ( 1.1 million copies sold as of now) and Wii Fit (1.1 million copies sold as of now). Super Mario Galaxy comes in fifth place in the country, only selling a total of 843,961 copies.
Wii serves over 5 million in Japan
Posted Jan 23rd 2008 12:00PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News
Tags: japan, marioparty8, mp8, sales, salesfigures, supermariogalaxy, wiifit, wiiplay, wiisports
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-23-2008 @ 12:07PM
Ken said...
It's 5, not 50
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1-23-2008 @ 12:07PM
Dyson said...
Um.. and I quote:
"In little over 60 weeks, the Wii console has managed to sell over 50 million units in its home territory of Japan. "
You weren't kidding in the headline when you said it sold over 5 million. ;)
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1-23-2008 @ 12:08PM
Justin Glow said...
awesome gif!
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1-23-2008 @ 1:36PM
bransman said...
Agreed...
1-23-2008 @ 12:12PM
David Hinkle said...
Whoops, I have no idea why I had 50 on the brain. Thanks for the correction guys, the typos have been fixed.
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1-23-2008 @ 4:36PM
Perverted said...
Although the sales are impressive all the games are for casual gamers.....So the Wii brung in more gamers and yet proper gamers games don't sell on it?
Well it is a landmark i suppose but i doubt the Wiis stability.
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