Nintendo reveals its top selling Wii, DS games

by Blake Snow, GamePro

Nintendo on Monday announced its platinum-selling first-party games, those with more than 1 million copies sold.

In their latest financial report, the company disclosed the following worldwide best-sellers in total units sold (including bundles):

Wii

-- Wii Sports - 17,850,000

-- Wii Play - 9,230,000

-- Super Mario Galaxy - 5,190,000

-- Mario Party 8 - 4,350,000

-- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 4,300,000

-- Super Paper Mario - 2,160,000

-- Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - 2,000,000

-- Mario Strikers Charged - 1,650,000

-- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 1,140,000

-- Link's Crossbow Training - 1,070,000

-- Wii Fit - 1,050,000

Nintendo DS

-- Nintendogs - 17,790,000

-- Pokemon Diamond & Pearl - 14,170,000

-- New Super Mario Bros. - 13,140,000

-- Brain Age - 11,710,000

-- Brain Age 2 - 9,840,000

-- Mario Kart DS - 9,670,000

-- Animal Crossing Wild World - 9,200,000

-- Super Mario 64 DS - 5,780,000

-- Big Brain Academy - 4,610,000

-- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 3,820,000

-- Pokemon Ranger - 2,610,000

-- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - 1,540,000

The report also quietly confirmed a 2008 release for Kirby and Animal Crossing on Wii. As always, Nintendo's first-party sales are impressive. The same cannot be said of third-party sales, however.

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