As part of a series of financial reports following the end of the first fiscal quarter, Nintendo has revealed new lifetime sales totals for a few of their most popular games — and the results are quite stunning. The biggest success has, unsurprisingly, been Wii Sports , which now sits at 47.62 million units sold worldwide. Totals for Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit were also announced, with lifetime global sales of 17.39 million and 21.82 million respectively. Wii Sports, of course, has the added ben

Wii Sports nears 50 million sold

We here at TVGB wade through tons of boring financial reports and news releases for the latest ColecoVision game. Thankfully we are not the only ones with this kind of dedication, or else we would have missed the fact that Nintendo has sold almost 50 million copies of Wii Sports since the game’s launch. Released in a supplement to their earnings statement, Nintendo gave us gave us a look at sales numbers for their top-selling games for this past quarter. Between April and June, the compa
Nintendo has revealed the lifetime sales of the DSi and their home console Wii platform. As everyone knows, the Wii has been more profitable than anyone could ever have imagined, and the system has now passed the 50 million units sold milestone. The lifetime worldwide sales for Wii sit at 52.62 million units sold. The DSi meanwhile was released last April and has passed the 6 in a half million mark, sitting at 6.68 million units sold since launch worldwide. That of course is on top of the
In a supplement to Nintendo's earnings statement yesterday, the company released some sales numbers for top-selling games in the last quarter. Four Nintendo products sold over one million copies between April and July, only one of which was a new release anywhere in the world during that time. Pokemon Platinum on DS, which came out in North America in March, right before the quarter started, moved 1.91 million copies in Q1, for a life-to-date total of 5.66 million worldwide. It was an e