NPD sales data shows top 10 best selling exclusive games since 1995, all are Nintendo games

SkittleDash · Nov 20, 2018

Xzi said:
Sony's massive lead this generation can also likely be attributed to the amount of exclusives on PS4. If people cared more about cross-platform games, XB1 wouldn't be way behind Switch in month-to-month sales already.

They don't have that many exclusives. From what I've seen, most normally get ported to PC sooner or later.

comput3rus3r · Nov 20, 2018

It's what makes Nintendo the best complimentary system to a PC. I could care less about xbox/playstation.

Axmand · Nov 20, 2018

pedro702 said:
its pretty easy for nintendo to win, Microsoft and sony don't have that many sales on their exclusive at all.

Agreed, Nintendo GameCube and Wii got a lot of "unique" titles, but sometimes that can be interpreted as the main reason as the why those consoles didnt success greatly...

pedro702 · Nov 20, 2018

SkittleDash said:
Not even one Zelda game. I would've thought there would be at least one on there.

zelda is never a ver sold game, heck pokemon would have a much higher chance to be there is handhelds were included, zelda sales are always okaish at best.

bodefuceta · Nov 20, 2018

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/wii.html
Wii fit(#1 here) sold only 22m, while brawl (#9) sold 13m. Are they counting the pokémons as separate games? Surely they should be up there.

EDIT: this is NPD though so probably only north america, OP should have mentioned it.

pedro702 said:
heck pokemon would have a much higher chance to be there is handhelds were included.

Mario kart DS is there though.

pedro702 · Nov 20, 2018

bodefuceta said:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/wii.html
Wii fit(#1 here) sold only 22m, while brawl (#9) sold 13m. Are they counting the pokémons as separate games? Surely they should be up there.

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Mario kart DS is there though.

probably splitted versions sales then.

MaxiBash · Nov 20, 2018

"Wii Fit"...
I'm sure that all these copies were bought by parents wanting their child to move.

Tizm · Nov 20, 2018

Hey Nintendo, your welcome that I bought your games

MikaDubbz · Nov 20, 2018

Scarlet said:
"Exclusive Games"

What part of that is misleading?

Anyway, it's not really a surprise. People only buy Nintendo systems for the exclusive stuff lol

These days that's not so true. Many people now buy the Switch to play fantastic games on the go that they couldn't play portably before, but still existed in the past on non-Nintendo systems. But yeah, for the bulk of when these numbers are applicable, that was mostly true.

FAST6191 · Nov 20, 2018

How bundled is bundled?

Wii Sports is a given to want to exclude, as might be tetris on the original GB. Other bundles are trickier to quantify -- Halo CE for the original xbox for instance.

I would also have to wonder if eventual PC ports factor into this. That drops most non Japanese games from the running.

As for games on that list. I think I have played all of them or essentially all of them. Most I would not miss, would not really look down on someone claiming to really like games for not having played, and most were massively surpassed on their platforms (yes I would rate any of the rare platformers ahead of Mario 64).

Either way a curious factoid I would not have thought obvious.

Xzi said:
Sony's massive lead this generation can also likely be attributed to the amount of exclusives on PS4. If people cared more about cross-platform games, XB1 wouldn't be way behind Switch in month-to-month sales already.

I don't know if I would go there entirely. MS seemed to massively misread the market and what it would take at the start of the generation. I would probably say that hobbled them in the eyes of consumers and devs and they never quite recovered. Depending upon how we want to view the Wii then last gen was the 360's, though Sony managed to catch up admirably as it went on, and for them to lose that kind of lead and good will was not just a quirk of the market.
All that said I still reckon this generation is exceptionally weak. I don't know if it was just last one being so strong or if something got lost but memorable titles this time around is so low it is not funny.

Xzi · Nov 20, 2018

SkittleDash said:
They don't have that many exclusives. From what I've seen, most normally get ported to PC sooner or later.

"Not that many" is still a lot more than the zero that XB1 has. Though Switch probably will overtake PS4's number of exclusives relatively quickly.

kuwanger · Nov 20, 2018

Chary said:
We finally found out that Wii Fit is the best video game ever.

Exclusive to a single system. I'm almost certain there are non-exclusive games that sold more on one system than the Wii Fit sold total.

SonyUSA · Nov 20, 2018

comput3rus3r said:
It's what makes Nintendo the best complimentary system to a PC. I could care less about xbox/playstation.

How much less?

Sakitoshi · Nov 20, 2018

comput3rus3r said:
It's what makes Nintendo the best complimentary system to a PC. I could care less about xbox/playstation.

except they aren't??
you can emulate all the nintendo systems.

Deleted User · Nov 20, 2018

I'm less surprised about Wii Fit than I am that Wii Play actually took off at all.

comput3rus3r · Nov 20, 2018

Sakitoshi said:
except they aren't??
you can emulate all the nintendo systems.

Right. Like I want to play skyward sword with a keyboard or a controller. Wiimote kicks their ass. I'm not into overly complicated setups to get motion controls on pc either.

Kioku · Nov 20, 2018

comput3rus3r said:
Right. Like I want to play skyward sword with a keyboard or a controller. Wiimote kicks their ass. I'm not into overly complicated setups to get motion controls on pc either.

Bluetooth... Ir sensor... Dolphin... Not anymore complicated than syncing it to a Wii...

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Sakitoshi said:
except they aren't??
you can emulate all the nintendo systems.

Not a valid response... "I can emulate it" is the laziest retort to so much in this forum. It's disgusting.

Kubas_inko · Nov 20, 2018

So the golden combination would be dual screen Wii. Wait, that's Wii U and that did not work out. Weird...

Kioku · Nov 20, 2018

Kubas_inko said:
So the golden combination would be dual screen Wii. Wait, that's Wii U and that did not work out. Weird...

Marketing can be such a pain, huh?

saulopp · Nov 20, 2018

Greetings!

May I introduce myself: I am the inventor of the game "Menu Guesser DX EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP" that came shipped with every WII sold. You randomly press buttons on the controller without looking on the screen, then you guess what menu is shown. You might say its garbage but thats the most sold game ever since it even shipped with the WIIs that were not bundled with WII fit. Yes and Nintendo used my clever design without paying royalties. Thats how they deal with indie devolopers... So all I have is fame.

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