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List of best-selling Wii video games

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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 82.90 million units worldwide making it the Third-best-selling video game of all time and is also the best-selling game released on a single console. 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 33.14million units. The console's top five is rounded out by New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which sold 30.32million units and Wii Play, which sold just over 28million units worldwide.

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 on the list. Of the 64 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 best selling franchises on the Wii include the Wii video game series (157.53million combined units), Super Mario (53.77 million combined units), and The Legend of Zelda (16.96 million combined units).

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

List

†Game was bundled with Wii consoles during its lifetime
GameCopies soldRelease dateGenre(s)Developer(s)Publisher(s)
Wii Sports †millionSportsNintendo EAD (Group 2)Nintendo
Mario Kart Wii †millionRacingNintendo EAD (Group 1)
Wii Sports Resort †millionSportsNintendo EAD (Group 2)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii †millionPlatformNintendo EAD (Group 4)
Wii PlaymillionPartyNintendo EAD (Group 2)
Wii FitmillionExergamingNintendo EAD (Group 5)
Wii Fit Plusmillion
Super Smash Bros. BrawlmillionFighting
Super Mario GalaxymillionPlatformNintendo EAD (Group 1)
Just Dance 3millionRhythmUbisoft ParisUbisoft
Wii Party †millionPartyNintendo
Mario Party 8millionHudson Soft
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessmillionAction-adventureNintendo EAD (Group 3)
Super Mario Galaxy 2millionPlatformNintendo EAD (Group 1)Nintendo
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic GamesmillionSportsSega Sports R&D
Donkey Kong Country ReturnsmillionPlatformRetro StudiosNintendo
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter GamesmillionSportsSega Sports R&D
Link's Crossbow TrainingmillionShooterNintendo EAD (Group 3)Nintendo
Lego Star Wars: The Complete SagamillionAction-adventureTraveller's TalesLucasArts
Just Dance 2millionRhythmUbisoft ParisUbisoft
Animal Crossing: City FolkmillionLife simulationNintendo EAD (Group 2)Nintendo
Just DancemillionRhythmUbisoft ParisUbisoft
Super Paper MariomillionIntelligent SystemsNintendo
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward SwordmillionAction-adventureNintendo EAD (Group 3)
Big Brain Academy: Wii DegreemillionNintendo EAD (Group 4)
Mario Party 9millionPartyNd CubeNintendo
Wii MusicmillionMusicNintendo EAD (Group 2)
Mario Strikers ChargedmillionSportsNext Level Games
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic GamesmillionSega Sports R&D
WarioWare: Smooth MovesmillionNintendo
Mario Super SluggersmillionSports
Super Mario All-Stars: 25th Anniversary EditionmillionPlatformNintendo EADNintendo
Guitar Hero III: Legends of RockmillionrhythmVicarious VisionsActivision
Michael Jackson: The ExperiencemillionUbisoft ParisUbisoft
Resident Evil 4: Wii EditionmillionSurvival horrorCapcom
Deca SportsmillionSportsHudson Soft
Epic MickeymillionPlatformJunction Point StudiosDisney Interactive Studios
Game PartymillionPartyFarSight StudiosMidway Games
Mario Sports MixmillionSportsNintendo
Pokémon Battle RevolutionmillionFightingGenius Sonority
Kirby's Return to Dream LandmillionPlatformHAL Laboratory
Monster Hunter TrimillionAction role-playingCapcom Production Studio 1Capcom
Kirby's Epic YarnmillionPlatformNintendo
EA Sports ActivemillionFitnessEA CanadaElectronic Arts
New Play Control! Mario Power TennismillionSportsCamelot Software PlanningNintendo
Wii Play: MotionmillionPartyVariousNintendo
Carnival GamesmillionPartyCat Daddy GamesGlobal Star Software
Metroid Prime 3: CorruptionmillionFirst-person action-adventureNintendo
Guitar Hero World TourmillionVicarious VisionsActivision
Resident Evil: The Umbrella ChroniclesmillionRail shooter
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's AdventuremillionAction-adventureCreatures Inc.
Sonic and the Secret RingsmillionPlatformSonic TeamSega
Rayman Raving RabbidsmillionPartyUbisoft MontpellierUbisoft
We SkimillionSkiingBandai Namco GamesBandai Namco Games
Big Beach SportsmillionSportsHB StudiosTHQ
Punch-Out!!millionSportsNext Level GamesNintendo
Wario Land: Shake It!millionPlatformGood-FeelNintendo
Active Life: Outdoor ChallengemillionExergamingh.a.n.d.Bandai Namco Games
Call of Duty: World at WarmillionFirst-person shooterTreyarchActivision
Red SteelmillionUbisoft ParisUbisoft
Rock BandmillionRhythmPi StudiosMTV Games
Zumba FitnessmillionFitnessPipeworks Software
Super Mario Bros. 3millionPlatformNintendo EADNintendo
Game Party 2millionPartyFarSight StudiosMidway Games

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