Wii Sports Resort sales burst the fad bubble

by Stevie Smith - Aug 7 2009, 16:00

While Wii Sports detractors may point to the game being bundled with the hugely popular Wii home console as a core reason for its prolonged success, initial sales of freestanding sequel Wii Sports Resort suggest gamers are genuinely keen on the simple style and fun interaction of Nintendo’s latest software profit machine.

Moreover, recent Chart Track figures have placed Wii Sports Resort as the best-selling software title in the UK for the past two weeks, while Nintendo has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that the game has managed to amass more than 600,000 unit sales across the pond since it hit retail on July 24.

A strong showing in the UK market follows on from a similarly impressive opening performance in the U.S., where Wii Sports Resort was able to rack up in excess of 500,000 sales in just eight days and was, according to Nintendo, selling a copy every 1.5 seconds continuously during that period.

Meanwhile, in Nintendo’s home territory of Japan, the family friendly motion-sensing package has already become the country’s third fastest-selling Wii release ever, managing to shift almost 360,000 copies in its first four days at retail.

The original Wii Sports was released as a launch game with the Nintendo Wii in November of 2006 and has gone on to sell almost 46 million copies worldwide (as of March 2009), making it the best-selling videogame of all time.

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