Wii Sports is best-selling game ever

Jock blockbuster topples Mario.

By Ben Silverman

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Well, that didn't take long.

According to game-tracking website VGChartz, sales of Nintendo's pop-culture phenom Wii Sports have surpassed those of legendary platformer Super Mario Bros., making the breakout Wii title the best-selling video game of all time. And it only took two years and two months to do it.

The data is based on cumulative worldwide sales figures ending the week of December 27, 2008, which indicate that lifetime sales of Wii Sports have exceeded Mario's staggering 40.24 million units.

Shocked? Don't be. Unlike most video games that can be bought at retail, Wii Sports comes bundled with the Wii hardware in every territory other than Japan and Korea. In other words, if you bought a Wii, you bought Wii Sports whether you liked it or not (chances are, you liked it). With over 45 million Wiis sold worldwide to date, it's only logical that Wii Sports would start smashing records sooner or later.

WII SPORTS: RESORT SCREENS

And before you brand Wii Sports a false champion due to being bundled with hardware, consider that Super Mario Bros. was also sold as a bundle with the original Nintendo Entertainment System during its mid-80's heyday. Plus, Wii Sports has been a major hit even in non-bundled form, topping Wii sales charts in Japan at over 3.2 million copies sold in 2008 alone.

A new version of the game, Wii Sports: Resort, is due out later this year.

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This story has been on quite a few major news sites

Sweet article! The only minor fault is the fact that 3.2 million is not the figure for 2008 sales but lifetime sales of Wii Sports in Japan.

Brett should be proud! And the best part is that they posted a link. We should be getting a huge traffic influx.

Everyone put on your Sunday's best!

This is good news.

Maybe news will spread and more people can come to the site now and then the site devs can switch it back to the old format where there was more than 10 posts on one page. I know that advertising revenue is necessary but now there is more ads than posts when you open a topic.

*Looks at your avatar*

"Well, using two strategies is bound to attract some people..."

That VGC article is really getting around.

You can change the number of posts per page in your profile. Problem fixed!

 I get 50 posts per page.  Go to your profile and change the options!  And quit using that Saturn pad online!!!

Or you could change it over to having more posts/page manually..?