Wii games dominate decade's top-five sellers

by Stevie Smith - Oct 14 2009, 16:00

Having already secured a healthy market lead both at home and on the go with its Wii and DS videogame consoles, it would appear Nintendo’s hardware dominance has bled over into the software scene.

Moreover, new figures offered up by the number-crunching experts NPD Group show that Nintendo can confidently lay claim to having created no less than three of the top five best-selling videogames released over the last 10 years.

Leading the software pack since the turn of the millennium is Wii Play, which is a collection of fun mini-games that has sold in excess of 11 million units across the United States and comes bundled with its own Wii Remote controller.

Following not far behind is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a multi-platform sandbox adventure on the PlayStation 2, original Xbox and Games for Windows that’s sold around 8.25 million copies since first being released in 2004.

Further disproving that the Wii and its motion-based software is far from a fad is 2008’s Wii Fit gaming exercise package, which sits in third and is fast catching the competition thanks to sales of 7.9 million and sustained consumer interest.

The top five big sellers are rounded out by Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which has amassed some 6.9 million sales in the United States, while Mario Kart Wii is keeping its engine revving in fifth thanks to sales of 6.7 million units.

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