If you ship a million then a million will be sold. Its just a matter of when. Certainly not all of them will have sold a million at retail, but 32 titles that have shipped over a million but not sold it is a bit much.

Definitely some sort of discontinuity here. Interesting to see if there's a follow up.

Would that put it ahead of the 360?

Even if it is shipped.... that's a large percentage of games rotting on shelves.

Like 300k copies of Madden 2009 still on shelves. It is at .71m right now.

Which games are these?

Because if they release sold to stores numbers, we;d cry foul that they weren't sold to consumers numbers. They don't have sold to consumers numbers because no one tracks those and adding tracking would cost money.

According to the article it’s defiantly sold not shipped. Below is from the article

Iwata says they are wrong. Seventy-three titles have sold 1 million copies on the Wii

@ Vectorferret

cool thanks didnt think of it like that.

 It is shipped. It is always shipped. You will never get a number out of Nintendo that is not shipped. They always talk about shipped, and use the term sold because they sell to retailers and already have their cash.

I wonder why the huge difference

 I was hoping to prevent people from coming and saying it was sold to retailers and not shipped by giving a new talking point. I have failed misreably in that goal.

 I think the 49 number was from just before the holiday season right? I seem to recall it comign from their conference in October. A huge holiday rush would account for the massive jump in software sales, and explain why VGChartz might have missed it. I wish the article specified how many were first party just so we can have a better chance at guessing what is under tracked.

does that number also include stuff on the wiiware ?

Either way its pretty impressive stuff ^__^