Jan 23
Wii Sells 5 Million in Japan. Buy No More Heroes.
IGN is reporting via Famitsu that Enterbrain, the publisher of Famitsu, has released numbers that have the Wii selling 5,019,337 units in Japan from its launch on December 2, 2006 to January 20, 2008. Clearly the system is beyond popular in its home country (as well as the rest of the world) as it only took 60 weeks to reach this mark. This makes the Wii the second fastest selling system ever, beating out the PS2 which took sixty-six weeks to sell as many. What is number one, you ask, already knowing the answer? It is of course everyone’s favorite money printing machine the DS which only took fifty-six weeks to reach the 5 million mark.
The Wii has 4 games over the one million mark. The best selling Wii game so far is Wii Sports with, according to the latest numbers issued by Enterbrain, 2,663,938 units. Trailing behind it are Wii Play (2,139,084 units), Mario Party 8 (1,153,648) and the hard-to-find Wii Fit (1,113,626). While it is great that the system is selling so well I wish there were more non-casual games above that one million mark. What would be even greater was if there was an actual third party game selling that well on the Wii. As it stands all these numbers prove, especially with Super Mario Galaxy in fifth at 843,961, is that more serious games and third party games don’t stand a chance. Yet another reason for everyone to go out and buy No More Heroes today. I’ve already got my copy.
Categories: Epic, Gaming Industry, Nintendo, Sales, Wii4 Comments so far
Leave a comment
It’s good to see Nintendo springing back from it’s GameCube days. For a while there I was worried this would be the last generation we’d see Ninty making consoles. Of course, I have no idea what they’ll do to follow up the Wii eventually.
Without a doubt No More Heroes is one of the best Wii games yet.
You want 3rd party games to sell on a Nintendo console? Sorry buddy, 1996 has long since passed. The only people who support 3rd party Nintendo games anymore are communists; are you a communist?
Put up a review of it, and maybe I’ll buy it.