My copy is still sealed (never started because of backlogs). Now I almost want to get a "cheap" used copy so I can keep that one copy sealed haha.

IDK if used counts, but I did purchase a used copy of Yoshi’s Woolly World for Wii U on December 24, 2025. Am I that one copy sold? Presumably not, I’d imagine this is referring to previously unsold copies lying around.

No used older games are bought frequently. These are brand new games sold by some retailer somewhere that registered the sale officially. Used only counts to that store.

Someone got tired of waiting for Woolly World to be ported to Switch

I wonder how many units Mario Kart Wii is selling. That one kept selling noteworthy numbers for a ridiculously long time after the Wii… I think until Mario Kart 8 came out on Switch. That game, the Just Dance games, and the Lego games seemed to be available at physical retail locations even in the Switch era.

I'd like to know that too; it sold 100k in FY 2019, 12 years and two generations after its release:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/334701-mario-kart-wii-sold-five-times-the-units-mario-kart-8-did-during

EDIT: Did some digging; as of March 2024, Mario Kart Wii was at 37.38m, so it sold another 280k in the 5 years from March 2019 to then, or an average of 56,000 per year.

What retailers are these actually from? I question why any retailer would still have a new never-sold copy of a 35 year old game.

They're not erroneously tracking the sale of a sealed copy that has previously been sold but someone traded-in/sold it to the store are they?

I've still never played either version of it.

I am hoping the heavily rumored Switch port happens. Nintendo should release it around the time of Mysterious Book and offer a 2 pack with a discounted rate. 

My experience isn't US-based, but I've definitely seen online retailers sell some pretty old games as well - and I mean brand new copies, not used ones. I looked it up quickly and was able to confirm this to really still be the case, so it's probably the same in the US as well. I imagine the retailers have had them sitting in their storage forever but haven't really felt too much pressure to get rid of them, probably precisely because they end up getting sold at some point rather than never.

I also bought some brand new sealed PS2 games last year, which I never thought I would do.

They were all cheaper than a regular used copy, while here in Brazil brand new old games are usually RIDICULOUSLY expensive, and in most cases you just won't find a new copy of many of them at all, so it really surprised me.

Got Persona 3 FES, Persona 4 and Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne from the same seller, which are still sealed, and are actually my only sealed games as I otherwise always open games immediatly to test.

Also got Mega Man Anniversary Collection, which was way cheaper so I opened it.

Saw some copies of Greatest Hits games sealed but I do my best to avoid any of those nowdays.

There in North America it looks like it's decently easy to find a sealed old game for a price around the launch price, at least Playstation games looking at pricecharting, so I think it's still mildly common to buy an old game still sealed here and there?