List of best-selling Wii video games
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that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling game on the Wii is ''
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''. First released in North America on November 19, 2006, it was a launch title for the system and was bundled with the Wii console in all regions except Japan and South Korea. The game went on to sell nearly 83 million units worldwide making it the fourth-best-selling video game of all time and is also the best-selling game released on a single console. ''
Mario Kart Wii is a kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is the sixth installment in the ''Mario Kart'' series, and was released in April 2008. Like its previous installments, ''Mario Kart Wii'' incorporates playable characters ...
'' is the second-best-selling game on the platform with sales of 37.32million units, it is the second best-selling iteration in the '' Mario Kart'' series, behind Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The third-best-selling game is ''
Wii Sports Resort ''Wii Sports Resort'' is a 2009 sports simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console, and is a sequel to ''Wii Sports''. It is one of the first titles to require the Wii MotionPlus accessory, which wa ...
'', a sequel to ''Wii Sports'', with sales of 33.13million units. The console's top five is rounded out by '' New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', which sold 30.30million units and ''
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'', which sold just over 28million units worldwide. There are a total of 63 Wii games on this list which are confirmed to have sold or shipped at least one million units. Of these, 21 were developed by internal Nintendo development divisions. Other developers with the most million-selling games include
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with five games and Capcom and
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, with three games each in the list of 63. Of the 63 games on this list, 42 were published in one or more regions by Nintendo. Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include
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with six games and
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and Capcom with three games each. The most popular franchises on Wii include the ''Wii'' video game series (157.3million combined units), '' Super Mario'' (53.75million combined units), ''
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'' (43.8million combined units), '' Mario Kart'' (37.32million combined units), and '' Mario & Sonic'' (16.02million combined units). By March 31, 2021, over 921.85million total copies of games had been sold for the Wii. By December 31, 2007, sales of
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games had reached over 10million copies. As of March 31, 2019, there are a total of 103 Wii games that have sold at least one million units.


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