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Everyone expected The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess to clean up in the Wii sales chart for the launch period, and this has been the case in North America. However, Japanese gamers had other ideas.
According to figures released by Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, the top selling Wii launch title was not Zelda, but Wii Sports with sales of 176,800 over the launch weekend. In Japan the game is not bundled with the console as it is in North America and Europe, but this hasn’t stopped the game reaching 47% of Japanese Wii owners.
Behind Wii Sports comes Wii Play, a collection of nine mini-games designed to highlight the different uses of the Wii remote, and shifted an impressive 171,888 units. Zelda finally makes an appearance in third place with sales of 145,068 units.
Famitsu also reports that hardware sales of the Wii reached 371,936 units, selling out of all launch stock.
Full run-down of Wii software sales for launch weekend:
- Wii Sports: 176,880
- Wii Play: 171,888
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: 145,068
- Odoru Made in Wario: 63,086
- Swing Golf Pangya: 12,673
- Ennichi no Tatsujin: 10,192
- SD Gundam SCAD Hammers: 9,801
- Red Steel: 8,823
- Tamagotchi Pika Pika Daitouryou: 6,994
- Elebits: 6,505
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Platform(s): GameCube, Wii, Wii U
- Genre(s): Action, RPG
