Wii Fit, Mario Kart sell a million each

By Robert Purchese Published 28 November, 2008

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Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii have both sold over 1 million copies in the UK.

Both follow trends set by the likes of Grand Theft Auto IV, which has gone double-platinum on both Xbox 360 and PS3.

Of course, those figures on Edge make no mention of Wii Play, which has ridden the UK all-formats top 40 chart here since release.

Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii join other UK best-sellers Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Vice City in the platinum ranks.

You can find a full list of double platinum sellers over on the ELSPA website. There are some quite eye-opening entries.

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Comments (25) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • red_shift #1 3 years ago

    It doesn't stop them both being a load of crap though.

  • Dan234 #2 3 years ago

    I'd like to click on the link to get to Edge's site but I'm asked for the password for admin.eurogamer.net.

    I tried admin/admin but it didn't work, so well done the Eurogamer IT bloke.

  • Nabokov #3 3 years ago

    "It doesn't stop them both being a load of crap though."
    Mario Kart is one of the best games I've played in last 25 years. Totally deserves it, congratulations.

  • DFawkes #4 3 years ago

    Mario Kart is awesome, and anyone who says different is either a moron, or doesn't like Mario Kart. Most are the second one, to be honest.

    More sales means more opponents to destroy online :D

  • Dan234 #5 3 years ago

    Look at the diamond sales.

    It's all Nintendo, apart four games on the PS2 and they don't count because they're last generation.

    Nintendo wins. Flawless victory.

    (That should get the thread going. After all, it's what EG want with these sales figures threads.)

  • Xerx3s #6 3 years ago

    "Mario Kart is one of the best games I've played in last 25 years. Totally deserves it, congratulations. "

    Yes, year after year, after year...

  • HolyJebus #7 3 years ago

    I wouldn't consider any of those entries to be eye-opening. All quite predictable.

  • jamespo #8 3 years ago

    MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES is diamond? That's avs

  • LazyDan #9 3 years ago

    "Yes, year after year, after year... "

    Do you live in leap years? The first Mario Kart was released on the SNES in 1992. In total there have been 6 Mario Kart games released for Nintendo consoles - that includes the two handheld versions. Everyone has their favourite, but overall -all- of them have been critically well received and sold very well - what other metric is there for determining what a good game is?

    We've had 3 Halo games since 2001, 3 God of War games since 2005 (assuming the third arrives soon), NINE Wipeout games since 1995... I think Mario Kart gets labelled with this 'same thing every' year stigma because each one gets so much attention and have all generally very good. Conversely not many people know the difference between Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Fusion - in fact to me, the entire Wipeout series is more guilty of releasing the same game every time.

    But no it's cool to bandwagon rather than think so LOL MARIO KART 8289289 MILK THAT COW DRY NINTENDO LOL

    Edited by 1 at 28/11/08 @ 12:51

  • metalnut #10 3 years ago

    "Mario Kart is one of the best games I've played in last 25 years"

    I'd agree, except that I've already played it already. At least twice.

    Honestly, I'm getting very tired of the constant lazy re-runs from Nintendo. I loved Mario Kart on the SNES. I loved it on the DS. I kind of liked it on the GameCube. On the Wii, well, it's just getting a little old now.

    Edit: and yes, you can say that about every sequence of sequels, except that MK has a habit of re-using *content* too. How many re-runs of the same circuits have we seen? I loved seeing the old SNES circuits in MK DS, honestly, but there's a limit to how many times you can do that.
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/08 @ 12:53

  • EzyRyder #11 3 years ago

    It wouldn't surprise me to see Gears of War 2 in there soon enough either.

  • Zomoniac #12 3 years ago

    Mario Kart Wii was inferior to DS, which was inferior to Super Circuit. It was rubbish. Just because Louise Redknapp is hot doesn't make it any better.

  • Dan234 #13 3 years ago

    Honestly, I'm getting very tired of the constant lazy re-runs from Nintendo. I loved Mario Kart on the SNES. I loved it on the DS. I kind of liked it on the GameCube. On the Wii, well, it's just getting a little old now.

    Mario Kart came out first on the GC and later on the DS.

  • Santino #14 3 years ago

    screw people who couldnt handle the awesomeness of mazza kart on the wii

  • metalnut #15 3 years ago

    "damn trolls... "

    Right, because anyone who doesn't agree with you is a troll. As a long-time Nintendo console owner, I'm clearly not allowed to have an opinion which contradicts the faithful. Noted.

    For the record, MK DS rules by a giant margin.
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/08 @ 14:48

  • sneetch #16 3 years ago

    @Dan234
    "Mario Kart came out first on the GC and later on the DS."

    Uh, no, it was first on the SNES, then the N64, then the GBA, then the GC, then the DS, then the Wii, I'm sure I've missed a handheld implementation or two though. It's always fun, not often all that innovative, although I loved MKDD on the GC, the COOP was great, not a huge fan of the bikes on the Wii version as I think the wheelie boost is broken.

  • LazyDan #17 3 years ago

    "I loved seeing the old SNES circuits in MK DS, honestly, but there's a limit to how many times you can do that. "

    Uh, they've only done classic tracks in Mario Kart DS and Wii - and none of the classic tracks featured in one game feature in another...

    Bit of a weird thing to pick on when they've only done it twice and there's nothing taken away from the games by adding them?

  • ChrisS #18 3 years ago

    Just to further fan the flames, how about this? Wii Fit is actually really fucking good, and equally - if not more so - deserving of high sales.

    Go!

  • smelly #19 3 years ago

    ""Mario Kart is one of the best games I've played in last 25 years. Totally deserves it, congratulations. "

    Yes, year after year, after year... "


    Yes.. you're totally right.. Yet another carbon copy fps game deserves that sort of level of praise. We get about 30 of them a year!

    Something like halo 3...

  • metalnut #20 3 years ago

    "Uh, they've only done classic tracks in Mario Kart DS and Wii - and none of the classic tracks featured in one game feature in another...

    Bit of a weird thing to pick on when they've only done it twice and there's nothing taken away from the games by adding them?"

    MK Wii regurgitated tracks from both of the most recent games (MK DS and Double Dash), as well as picking tracks from the older SNES & N64 versions. The sense of deja-vu on the DS and GC tracks was a little too recent.

    All I'm saying is that playing MK Wii for the first time I actually felt like I'd already played a lot of the content already. I don't look for that in a game. Had the gameplay felt *incredibly* tight I may have forgiven it that, but it didn't - better than Double Dash (a low point anyway) but not up to the refinement of MK DS. YMMV.

  • ph101 #21 3 years ago

    loved this game

  • Dan234 #22 3 years ago

    @sneetch

    Uh, no, it was first on the SNES, then the N64, then the GBA, then the GC, then the DS, then the Wii

    Yes, but the poster I was replying to was implying it came out on the DS before it came out on the GC. I wasn't trying to post the complete list of MKs.

  • Doctor_What #23 3 years ago

    Wasn't there an N64 version in there at some point?

  • electrolite #24 3 years ago

    Both well-deserved IMHO. Mario Kart is maybe lacking a little graphically but it's probably one of my most-played games of the year. Wii Fit I got bored of and sold on but that's because I bought a gym membership instead, it's really well done. I can see why it's sold.

  • canIdoyabombsforya #25 3 years ago

    The Wii should be banned. Clearly only adults are buying it, they should be out working. No wonder the economy is shite.