Just Dance 2: The Top Selling Third Party Game On a Nintendo Platform - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 09 July 2011 / 7,378 Views
Ubisoft's Just Dance 2 launched on Wii last October. In the roughly 9 months since, through the few days of July the game has sold 7.69m units globally. Through the same date, Sega's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has sold 7.73m units. Given that Just Dance 2 is selling around 50,000 per week still on the Wii, compared to the few thousand per week Mario & Sonic is selling, it is likely that as of today, July 9, 2011, Just Dance 2 is the best selling third party game on a Nintendo platform, a period that covers over 25 years of history.
Through the week ending July 9, 2011, the top ten third party games on a Nintendo platform shoud look something like this:
1) Just Dance 2 / Wii / Ubisoft - 7.74m
2) Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games / Wii / Sega - 7.73m
3) Street Fighter II: The World Warrior / SNES / Capcom - 6.30m
4) Just Dance 1 / Wii / Ubisoft - 5.87m
5) Dragon Quest IX / DS / Square-Enix - 5.51m
6) Cooking Mama / DS / Majesco - 5.12m
7) Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games / DS / Sega - 4.92m
*) Professor Layton & The Curious Village / DS / Level-5 - 4.91m
8) Guitar Hero III / Wii / Activision - 4.46m
9) Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga / Wii / Lucas Arts - 4.32m
10) Super Street Fighter II: Turbo / SNES / Capcom - 4.10m
* Developed and published by Level 5 in Japan, published by Nintendo outside Japan.
Going forward the only likely challenger in the near term to Just Dance 2's position as top third party game on a Nintendo system might be its sequel, Just Dance 3, which releases later this year. In theory Zumba Fitness 2 will be bigger than Zumba Fitness 1 (2m in 7 months, selling 100k per week still), but like Just Dance 3, the title will be on other platforms, and so topping Just Dance 2 should be fairly difficult.
If nothing else, we can safely surmise from the list above that the biggest third party games on Nintendo systems are increasingly on Wii - in a couple of years the list could have six to eight titles on Wii amongst the top ten, as Zumba Fitness 1-2, Just Dance 3, Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics, and Dragon Quest X are all fairly likely to top 4.1m units globally by the time they stop selling, which is enough to crack the top ten and push out some non-Wii third party hits.
The real question going forward is how long the Just Dance franchise lasts, as Just Dance 2 will probably have enough of a long-tail to reach over 10m units lifetime. If that ends up happening, the title would be amongst the 50-best selling single platform games of all time, a huge accomplishment for a dancing game that is selling mostly to women. Ubisoft will probably need to give the series a rest at some point to keep figures high though. Even so, my take is Just Dance 3 will perform similarly to two (overall, not necessarily on Wii), and after that no platform will be large enough as a software market to support the series for a while, but we'll have to see.
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10) Super Street Fighter II: Turbo / SNES / Capcom - 4.10m ???? Typo here ... this has to be JUST Super or JUST Turbo ... because Super Turbo was never on the SNES
Very true.
I really don't know why this is so popular...
@hotmoza it would sell less than the other versions
isnt wii like one of nintendos best selling consoles ever?... also all their big games are in house XD
needs moar 3rd party good games.
Now imagine if they got SS4 or the arcade version on Wii...
@are you talking to me?? I didnt even mention woman, hell i wasnt even thinking that. But you were. If your not then ignore my post
JD2 is bought by women ? Do you have proof or is that a cliché ?
shows what kind of games sell on Wii, take it how you want it but good for SF
Amazing DQ IX is here, great game on a great console!
Just dance 2 will sell more copies than L.A. Noire in it's lifetime.
Wasn't DQIX also published by Nintendo outside of Japan? And according to Wikipedia, Mario and Sonic was published by Nintendo in Japan (but unlike Dragon Quest, 90% of its sales are outside of Japan).
Deserved! it's actually the only Wii game I still play... >_>
wow 5 Wii games up there
But... the Wii and DS have no 3rd party games!
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Well, I'm gonna arrogantly throw out the prediction that Just Dance 3 on Wii will outsell Modern Warfare 3 on any single platform in the long run. It's getting to be Wii's Call of Duty.
I think I just cursed its sales...
lol unlikely lol
