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Nintendo Reveals 76 Million-Unit Sellers On Wii
by Leigh Alexander [PC, Console/PC]
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February 25, 2010
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The Wii has 76 titles that have sold a million units or more worldwide, says Nintendo -- and more than half of them are third-party games.
22 first-party titles and 54 third-party titles have hit the milestone, Nintendo business development head Dan Adelman said yesterday at the company's Media Summit, as reported by consumer site VG247. Nintendo recently revealed, for example, that its fastest-selling Wii title to date is New Super Mario Bros, which topped 10 million units last month.
Adelman also revealed stats for the DS, which has 45 first-party and 63 third party titles that have topped a million worldwide units. He also revealed the sizes of the libraries for Nintendo's downloadable platforms, Virtual Console, WiiWare and DSiWare -- they're up to 347, 189 and 127 titles, respectively.
As part of its event yesterday, Nintendo confirmed launch dates for its DSi XL in North America, its plans to publish Square Enix's Dragon Quest, and the rest of its first-half lineup, which includes Metroid: Other M and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Gamasutra also spoke to Nintendo of America's Cammie Dunaway, who said Nintendo's strong first-party titles were driving sales of its platforms, and that it would work closely with third parties who "make particularly good use for our hardware, represent great innovation, and are going to have appeal to the right audiences."
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I too want to see the list. I am curious to see which titles make up the 54 third party titles.
AS for the pack ins, there is less than ten that I know of that are only first party. So all the 54 third party titles are pure game.
But if they sold over 1 million units that is roughly 50 million in sales revenue per game. I think that is pretty successful. Of course, I think those are worldwide sales and not just the US.
I remember reading some articles here on Gamasutra in the last year, that showed, that the software sales numbers on VGChartz were often bad guesses, instead of precise numbers. Does anybody know, if this changed in the last 12 months?
About the 3rd party success on the Wii, it mirrors roughly the software sales, that Pachter compiled earlier this year, he also came up with around 2/3 third party unit sales.
Thanks for the link. If that is truly the list that Nintendo is going by it is impressive.
I think the takeaway from that list is a lesson in how to target the Wii consumer. Looking at the list I see a number of titles that have good multiplayer, good use of the Wii Remote and direct targeting of new audiences that the Wii brought in.
It is also interesting to see a number of M rated games on there.
Surprising, the VGChartz list you posted includes exact 76 titles over 1 million, coincidence, or has the data basis of VGChartz improved this much?
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or maybe it's the other way round with Nintendo reps basing their statement on VGChartz ;)