Resort sports sells 100,000

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The theory that successful gaming titles will produce successful sequels has proven true once again, with Nintendo Australia announcing that Wii Sports Resort has sold more than 100,000 copies in Australia after only four weeks. Some stores reported selling completely out of the title.

Nintendo of America has also announced that the title had sold more than 1 million copies in the United States, with sales of one million also being recorded Japan and Europe, taking global sales to more than 3 million.

The original Wii Sports is among the highest selling games of all time, which is hardly a shock since it was packaged with the Wii console in most countries.

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19 Comments

notsofat

2 years ago

PALGN wrote

The original Wii Sports is among the highest selling games of all time, which is hardly a shock since it was packaged with the Wii console in most countries.

palgn that is cheating and you know it.

i dont think

PALGN wrote

hich is hardly a shock since it was packaged with the Wii console in most countries.

goes far enough to scream CHEATING.

trixSTAR

2 years ago

Yep, brought it but beware the game does not support the standard wiimote, you need to buy the extra Wii MotionPlus units (1 comes with the game).

The game does become very expensive

The game is lots of fun

FYI, JB have the Wii MotionPlus units for $27 each.

waz79

2 years ago

Well theres no excuses now. Its sold faster than Wiifit, its cheaper and there is also a plastic peripheral (that old chestnut).

waz79

2 years ago

LTD sales of Wii music are 3 million. This game is going to clear 15 i reckon.

Qbert

2 years ago

waz79 wrote

Well theres no excuses now. Its sold faster than Wiifit, its cheaper and there is also a plastic peripheral (that old chestnut).

No excuses for what?

LeonJ

2 years ago

Well I didn't buy it. I don't even look at the Wii release schedule anymore....

Jarrod

2 years ago

Qbert wrote

No excuses for what?

Nintendo were a bit wary of M+ support, pretty much saying it's based on sales. Miyamoto mentioned it a couple of times in reference to the next Zelda, in that they want M+ support but exclusive support will depend on overall M+ sales.

Hence, no excuse now for Nintendo to shaft their own peripheral, one which adds considerable potential to the device.

waz79

2 years ago

EatChildren wrote

Hence, no excuse now for Nintendo to shaft their own peripheral, one which adds considerable potential to the device.

Thanks Eat Children, What i meant was no excuses like "its bundled" or its a gimmick or its because of the plastic wheel, etc.

Wii music failed (with only 3 million in 1 yr) but the brand was not damaged.

JP2daMC

2 years ago

3 million in sales is a failure? That would put it in the company of such failures as Zelda The Wind Walker, Fable and Metal Gear Solid 4.

Gee I hope I fail someday.

LeonJ

2 years ago

I guess that's fail in Nintendo terms maybe next to all the other Wii <insert new age idea here>

waz79

2 years ago

Exactly, Iwata himself said that it was not successful.

Nic_231

2 years ago

It's good that Nintendo were finally able to deliver the motion support they promised at launch...

Skiller

2 years ago

*sigh*
A sad day for real games and gamers

G3ck0

2 years ago

Skiller wrote

*sigh*
A sad day for real games and gamers

Why? These kind of games are great when you have a few friends over, and with the included Wii Motion Plus it's sorta a no brainer to buy.

waz79

2 years ago

Well i guess some of you haven't actually tried sword fighting yet. "real games" lol

Jarrod

2 years ago

Skiller wrote

*sigh*
A sad day for real games and gamers

Go blow yourself. If there's anything wrecking gaming it's the pretentious, ego stroking self-labelled 'hardcore/real' gamers who refuse to let anybody enjoy anything they don't.

Qbert

2 years ago

Gaming hasn't been ruined...just Nintendo.

Zarnoss

2 years ago

Man i played a fair bit of wii resort.
Most of it is prety fun...but petty fun, the most angular translation i saw was in the frisbee,in the bowling no matter how much spin i put on the ball it always had a maximum value,and as far as im concernerned that can suck a blue vein cigar.Motion plus is a farce as far as I have seen so far.
But give them more money, more games will accept the technology to play better (ie: as it should)
Nintendo are the high class whores of this world , they dont give a **** other than the money intake.

**** you nintendo for releasing this biased piece of **** onto the public.

Mush Man

2 years ago

Edit (28/2/2011): This post was stupid. It is now removed.

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Australian Release Date:
  23/07/2009 (Tentative)
Publisher:
  Nintendo
Genre:
  Family
Year Made:
  2008
Players:
  4

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