This is without a doubt one of the more peculiar charts you can find in the wild.
Hey, 4 third party titles in the top 5 :x
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[NPD] - List of best selling Wii titles in the US in 2018 (SPOILER)
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This is without a doubt one of the more peculiar charts you can find in the wild.
Hey, 4 third party titles in the top 5 :x
I'm imagining someone who probably isn't a 13-29 year old male.
Big if true.
I think Nintendo shipped 300k of Mario Kart Wii worldwide. If we assume at least 150k to USA, and Mario Kart Wii is not on the list...
Edit: I was wrong, it was 100k ww.
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It was in Amazon UK's November 2018 best seller top 50.
Switch has overtaken it but Wii still seems to be the second best selling platform for Just Dance.
I don't have a better source but VGCZ indicated ~250K for JD 2019 on the Wii.
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Was going by time:
ps2
march 2000(console release) - november 2013(pro evo 2014 release)
wii
november 2006(console release) - november 2019 (current scheduled last release)
If wii got a just dance 2021 releasing in late 2020, it would outdo the ps2 record.
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Can't say for sure, just that it's the only one other than Switch that shows up in UK charts.
Thats a better way since both PES and FIFA started before the PS2 and both were out on launch year while Just Dance actually started on the Wii some years after launch
Damn, then it's even more impressive! 10 year old and still in the top 5.
I know several of them. They were casual players who used to buy consoles but transitioned towards playing games on smartphones. They were never interested in upgrading consoles anymore but still have a Wii lying around to pull out for local multiplayer games now and again, especially at christmas.
Gaming is a lot broader than just the folks who buy the latest console every generation.
This might be the single worst post I have read on here in some time.
Imagine someone that only plays the JD games not needing to buy a new console to play the new ones. Sounds really nice.
Last fiscal year Mario Kart Wii sold 100k WW and is not even on the top 5 list.
For at least some of those years the Wii version was still the best selling (I think even 2017). Switch eventually took over
There's your Just Dance 2020.
This is cool. They're also used in PE classes.
This is cool. They're also used in PE classes.
It's interesting you mention this because I bought Sonic Colors and that Nights into Dreams game to play with my daughter at Gamestop recently. The cashier was incredulous, smirked a bit and asked why I was buying Wii games and kept trying to upsell me on Switch stuff. It was very annoying, not everybody has to play the absolute latest cutting edge stuff.
I own JD2019 on Wii.
I'm a 32 year old male though, so I guess that makes it OK.
Yep. Cutting it real close there though. Almost had to turn in your gamer cred card for purchasing a product you enjoy on a platform you enjoy it on.
To be even more edgy, I might get JD2020 on Wii too. The other option I'm considering is Stadia. It would be cool to be able to play it anywhere, since they added the feature of your phone being a controller/sensor a couple editions ago.
My girlfriend loves Just Dance and not everyone cares to buy move controllers.
interestingly, using the wayback machine, we can see that during FY2019, MKWii outsold NSMBWii worldwide (100k vs 60k). That means that NSMBWii has better legs than MKWii, but only in the US, although the latter still sold more :
Honestly, at that point I would have told him to fuck off and gone to another store.
They have really good prices and are a lot more convenient than waiting days for a game to be shipped and arrive at my house. Usually I have a good experience at Gamestop so don't take this as me bashing the whole store, I've had less than a handful of bad experiences in 20+ years of shopping there. but there is this attitude among some gamers that old games aren't worth playing which is patently ridiculous.
Sure, I get it. And it's just crazy that some gamers and Gamestop employees and such look down on old games and old systems. In particular when talking about games that recent. Fun games don't stop being fun just because the generation changes.
I'm imagining it.
And you're an ass for mocking them, to be honest.
I certainly can imagine three types of people.
1) Someone who is secure in the life choices. Ie I don't need anything else if I can buy Just Dance for my Wii
2) A commercial purchaser like the schools, rehabs, etc.
3) Someone who is poor and gets a lot of life out of their second hand consoles.
None of them are to be mocked.
Who gives a shit? I know people who still have a Wii hooked up. Guess what. They're not bad human beings.
Plus I bet a bunch were sold to collectors thinking they were buying the final Wii release.