Resort, Fit Plus, NSMB sell 10m each

By Robert Purchese Published 28 January, 2010

Iwata's prophecy is fulfilled.

Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus and New Super Mario Bros. Wii have all sold over 10 million copies in just one financial year - exactly as Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata predicted in August 2009.

As of 31st December, Wii Sports Resort (released summer 2009) had sold 13.58m units, New Super Mario Bros. Wii (released November 2009) had sold 10.55m units and Wii Fit Plus (released October 2009) had sold 10.16m units.

Those magnificent numbers, coupled with a Wii price cut - sadly not evident in the UK - helped Nintendo shift over 17m consoles during the nine months beginning 1st April 2009.

Total software sales for Wii reached 156.65m units.

Nintendo's DS series - DSi, DS Lite, DSi LL - also fared well, shifting 23.35m units worldwide.

In Japan, new DS games dominated the charts. Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver sold 3.74m units, Pokemon Platinum sold 3.1m units and Tomodachi Collection sold 2.74m during those nine months.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (released December 2009) raced to an impressive 2.45m units worldwide.

So far, 121.38m games have been sold on DS during the financial 2009 year. That ends March 2010, remember.

Net income for Nintendo was ¥192.6bn (£1.3bn), down 10 per cent on the same period in fiscal 2008.

Europe made up a diminished 33.9 per cent of Nintendo's business during those nine months, while the US commanded 44.4 per cent.

"Nintendo continues to pursue "Gaming Population Expansion" based on the idea of putting smiles on many people's faces by offering brand new entertainment that anyone can enjoy, regardless of age, gender or gaming experience," the company said in a statement.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Lusterpurge #1 2 years ago

    Good. They should now have enough money to make an Earthbound sequel.

  • metalmike25 #2 2 years ago

    Fair play to them, they're getting more and more people involved in gaming and that can only be a good thing.

    They've also released some absolutely amazing games in the last few years even if some game snobs look down on games where you don't shoot people.

    Still, those Ant and Dec ads make me want to join Al-Quaida so its not all good

  • speedjack #3 2 years ago

    In contrast :-

    http://ne ws.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8484...

  • penhalion #4 2 years ago

    @speedjack

    Nice dose of reality there. I was going to point this out but, it would have come off as simple Wii hate. Glad the BBC picked up on this.

  • MORZTAN #5 2 years ago

    Speedjacks link broken on my computer, can anyone fill me in?

  • KDR_11k #6 2 years ago

    Good. They should now have enough money to make an Earthbound sequel.

    They already did, what people are pestering them about is releasing it outside of Japan.

  • CallousB #7 2 years ago

    "Nintendo need to bring a new console out this year."

    Pffftt. Analysts. A few years back they were claiming the Wii would ship around 30 million in its lifetime...then they claimed 50 million...and Nintendo are currently at 67 million + . I suppose a Wii Lite redesign could happen... but new console talk is nuts. If Nintendo were concerned about sales then cutting the Wii price in half would be smarter than releasing a new console.

  • malexous #8 2 years ago

    I haven't played Wii Sports Resort in multiplayer yet but I'm sure it is fantastic fun as a party type game.

    Nintendo has never claimed that Wii Fit will actually make you fit. What they did claim is that it will make you more aware of your body. In terms of posture, it really helped me.

    NSMBWii... it has 87 on metacritic and both "hardcore" and "casual" love it (with exceptions, of course).

    IMO, they deserve these sales.

  • orakio #9 2 years ago

    Profit is always relative ofcourse. As long as the shareholders are happy and dividents are payed out, it doesn't really matter whether they have 10% more or less.

  • DaDon123456 #10 2 years ago

    'Those magnificent numbers, coupled with a Wii price cut - sadly not evident in the UK - helped Nintendo shift over 17m consoles during the nine months beginning 1st April 2009.'

    Huh? Ive seen the Wii + Wii S.Resort for £140 brand new in many shops.

  • TonyHarrison #11 2 years ago

    A 10% drop on a profit of several billion dollars/pounds/yen is still a profit of several billion dollars/pounds/yen.

    It's like taking a grain of sand off the beach and saying the beach is disappearing...

  • secombe #12 2 years ago

    Do those 156m software sales include bundled games? If not that's an average of 4 of 5 games per Wii (depending on when their Wii was bought) which isn't exactly the horrific attach rate many claim.

  • banjo21 #13 2 years ago

    Success yes bit I'd be interested to see a comparison of average hours used by console in their second six months of ownership. Lots of wiis yes. Lots of well used wiis no. The point is I don't think they'll get away with it again.

  • malloc #14 2 years ago

    Well done Nintendo. Feel free to spend the money increasing the gaming experience for the large fanbase please.