How much will the Wii franchise sell?

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The Original post from a year ago.

 

 The Numbers have now been corrected, and there have been other changes too. I apologise for having the wrong best selling list. For some reason I was using Wikipedia. If you find any mistakes, post them.  

How much will the Wii franchise sell? The series of Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit is currently the 13th best selling franchise ever. Having sold 26,35 million that is. How far will it go by 2008, 2009 and through the whole lifetime? Will the series beat 56 million and become one of the top 5 best selling franchises ever? Or will it not sell as good, and be unable to beat 43M and break into the top 10?

My predictions are as following:

Wii sports sold about 14,6M last year. Wii Play did 7,8M and Wii fit did 750K. The total numbers are 17.5, 8.7 and 1M.

Wii sports will keep up the pace, and sell 18M through 08. Wii play will also keep selling, since it is a pack in with Wii-mote, and everybody needs a Wiimote. It will not sell as much as last year though and end up at 6M. Wii fit will sell a lot, 10, or at least 9M. So after 08, it will be about 59M sold, being the 4th best selling franchise ever. Beating The Legend of Zelda.

It will drop off later, but for lifetime sales, I predict 120M, being the 3rd best selling franchise ever.

Of course, there will come other "wii games" like Wii chess and Wii music, but I don't know whether they will sell much or anything, so I don't include them. You can of course.

At request, I added the best selling franchises.

1. Mario - 302M - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Mario&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

2. Pokemon - 152M - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Pokemon&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

3. Grand Theft Auto - 61,5M - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?
name=Grand+theft+auto&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

4. Final Fantasy - 57M - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Final+Fantasy&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

5. The legend of Zelda - 55,8M - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=The+legend+of+Zelda&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

6. The Sims - 55,5 M http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=The+sims&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

7. Gran Turismo - 46,9M http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Gran+turismo&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

8. Tetris - 46,5M - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Tetris&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

9. Donkey Kong - 45M - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Donkey+Kong&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

10. Dragon quest 42,4 - http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Dragon+Quest&console=&publisher=&sort=Total

That's all the ones I care to link. For the rest, you will have to search million sellers yourself.

11. Wii Series - 40.53M

12. Sonic 39,6M

13 Madden 36,5M

(Wii Series: 31.3M) as of 13th February 2008

14, Crash Bandicoot 29,3M

15. Resident evil - 27,1M

( Wii series - 26,35M) (as of 13th January 2008)

16. Pro evo soccer - 25,6M  

17. Tekken 24,4M

18. Kirby 22,9M

19. Fifa 22,5M

20. Tomb Raider - 21,8M

21. Halo 21,4M

22. Brain Training - 20,9M

23. Medal of Honour 17,4M

24. Spyro 17,4M

25. Nintendogs 16,7M.

26. Metal Gear 16,1M

27. Warcraft 16,1M

Honourable Mentions:

Mortal Kombat 14,8. Street Fighter 15,1M. NBA live 10,9M. Harry Potter 13,2M.Half Life 12M.