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List of best-selling Wii video games

List of best-selling Wii video games

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This is a list of video games for the Wii video game console that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling game on the Wii is Wii Sports. First released in North America on November 19, 2006, it was a launch title for the system and was bundled with the Wii console in all regions except Japan and South Korea. The game went on to sell nearly 83 million units worldwide making it the fourth-best-selling video game of all time and is also the best-selling game released on a single console.[1] Mario Kart Wii is the second-best-selling game on the platform with sales of 37.38 million units, it is the second-best-selling iteration in the Mario Kart series, behind Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The third-best-selling game is Wii Sports Resort, a sequel to Wii Sports, with sales of 33.14 million units. The console's top five is rounded out by New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which sold 30.32 million units and Wii Play, which sold just over 28 million units worldwide.

For a complete list of Wii video games, see List of Wii games.
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There are a total of 64 Wii games on this list which are confirmed to have sold or shipped at least one million units. Of these, 21 were developed by internal Nintendo development divisions. Other developers with the most million-selling games include Ubisoft Paris with five games and Capcom and Sega Sports R&D, with three games each in the list of 63. Of the 63 games on this list, 42 were published in one or more regions by Nintendo. Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include Ubisoft with six games and Activision and Capcom with three games each. The most popular franchises on Wii include the Wii video game series (157.53 million combined units), Super Mario (53.77 million combined units), Wii Fit (43.8 million combined units), Mario Kart (37.38 million combined units), and Mario & Sonic (16.02 million combined units).

By March 31, 2021, over 921.85 million total copies of games had been sold for the Wii.[2] By December 31, 2007, sales of Virtual Console games had reached over 10 million copies.[3] As of March 31, 2019, there are a total of 103 Wii games that have sold at least one million units.[1]

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Notes

  1. Only the initial release date on this platform is listed.
  2. Bundled with a popular accessory such as an additional Wii Remote, Wii MotionPlus, Wii Zapper, or Wii Wheel.
  3. Development co-operation from Game Arts, Monolith Soft, Paon, Imageepoch, Intelligent Systems, and others.
  4. Wii Play: Motion's twelve minigames were developed by several different developers alongside Nintendo: Arzest, Chunsoft, Good-Feel, Mitchell Corporation, NDcube, Nintendo, Prope, Skip Ltd., and Vanpool.
  5. Virtual Console game

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