Top 10 in Sales - Wii - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 July 2012 / 8,380 Views
Welcome to the ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise.
This week we will be looking at the top 10 bestselling games on the Wii, including games before the two companies merged. Last week we looked at the top 10 selling games published by Square Enix and the week before that the top 10 selling games in June 2012. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.
Looking at the top 10 bestselling games for the Wii, it is easy to see that it being a Nintendo platform that the company dominates the top of the charts with nine of the top 10 bestselling games. Five of the games are unique for the platform, as in they are not on any other platform right now. These games are Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Play, Wii Fit, and Wii Fit Plus. Three games have Mario in the title, while four of them feature him as a playable character.
The two Wii Sports games sold a combined 108.93 million units or 54.47 million each on average. This is also 40.5 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The two Wii Fit games sold a combined 43.33 million units or 21.67 million each on average. This is also 16.1 percent of the total games sold in the top 10.
Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling games for the Wii, bundling games have clearly helped. Wii Sports which was a launch title, up until recently has been bundled with every Wii sold. The game has more than doubled the second closest game.
The Wii has had some of the bestselling games of all time. Wii Sports is the bestselling game of all time, due to the fact it was bundled. While of Mario Kart Wii sales were from bundles, the majority of its sales weren’t bundled. The game is the bestselling game where most of its sales weren’t bundled. Five of the top 10 bestselling games of all time are for the Wii.
As a quick note the top nine games sold more than 10 million units. Also the top 19 games sold more than five million units and the top 51 sold more than two million. 138 games sold more than one million units and 273 games sold more than 500,000 units.
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I hope people realize that Wii Sports sold the Wii and not the other way around. Unlike Wii Play, where the additional controller packed in sold the game.
Oni, you're a minority. SMH
Defo, I thumbed you up. I think what he meant to say was that Wii sports wasn't just a bundle sale, but that it pushed many Wiis (mind you not all of 'em).
I think it was a response to Gilga.
Bahaha: Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, Ubisoft. Lol
Doom or Gloom?
And if you go to just about any casual Wii owner's house, this is essentially their entire library, plus maybe Mario Party 8 and Carnival Games or some similar mini/party game collection.
Is that a problem?
No need to be jealous, :P. That said, most casual Wii owners don't buy nearly that many games. Hell, even the attach ratio for the HD consoles ain't as high as 10-12 titles per system. Also, your statement implies that there are only 9.23m casual Wii owners at most and that all of them still own SMG and Brawl, xD.
Right, because every other game on that list aside from Galaxy and Brawl isn't popular with the casual audience. Guess it was all of those core gamers lining up in droves for Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Wii Play, etc. I'm honestly surprised none of the Guitar Hero games made it this high.
You can thank Activision for flooding the market with Guitar Hero games thus killing the franchise.
he's right, not that there really is a problem with that, its just a different kind of machine
There is a problem with that, since that's not tapping into Nintendo's true potential, and neither invigorating the market with Nintendo's untapped talent. But in the end it had a massive entertainment value so that's a consolation prize.
That was a rhetorical question. There's no problem just because a certain market enjoys a different product from you. Nintendo will obviously continue to cater to both markets, since Smash Bros, Mario (which is NOT casual crap, even 2D), even Zelda and the like do sell quite well.
@the dengle pretty much yeah
@happydolphin what potential? The games sell well, these are the games that most people who bought Wii like. THey get games they want and Ninty makes money and if thats not what they want there are three other viable alternatives, again whats the issue
Oh no, I agree Oni. I was talking about the potential in depth and content, not the potential in sales.
When games sell on Wii they sell big time!
No shit sherlock :P
Can we perhaps have a list of the top games of all time, along with worldwide figures for PS3, X360, and Wii?
oh ya I had Zak and Wiki also.
Did you ever try the spinoff "Zak and Wiki make a porno"?
yea, I would say a majority a Wii owners 75% or more of their collection is in there. I have or had had about 2/3 of those, add it Zelda, Metriod, Tales of Symph : DOTNW, Fire Emblem and a couple more.
Nope bundle games can't count here, they never counted in the past of this site, i don't belive there's still someone that want to be evil with Nintendo, this is non-sense. Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Play and Wii Fit are all game that you find only in bundles. Wii Fit Plus there's a version without the bundle so they should count only that sales. But i guess VGChartz is too lazy to do so, old times sales analysis were so detailed.
