After what was a pretty terrible June for the video game industry, Nintendo looked to July’s highly anticipated Wii Sports Resort release to revitalize casual gamers — and their wallets — and reverse the steep slide the company saw at the start of summer. Fast forward: It did. Nintendo announced this past week that the sequel to its ever-popular Wii Sports title sold over 500,000 titles during its first week of availability beginning July 26th. For those keeping score, that’s about one copy sold every 1.5 seconds. At $50 a pop, it’s also about $25 million in gross revenue. Wii Sports Resort packages 12 mini games onto one disc and includes a MotionPlus accessory, which “brings unmatched accuracy to games that have been specially designed for it.” In other words, it improves upon the revolutionary concept popularized by the standard Wii controller and makes it much more accurate. So, did anyone pick up a copy of Sports Resort this past week or are you all still too busy drooling over preview videos of Project Natal?

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Nintendo just can’t seem to make an announcement regarding numbers without wowing us these days, and its recent financial call is no exception. Forgetting about the dollars and cents for the purposes of this post, Nintendo released a list of 26 games for the Wii and DS that have sold at least one million copies since April 2008, along with total sales for each title. Let’s have a look at the full list:

Wii

• Wii Sports – 40.5 million
• Wii Play – 20.91 million
• Wii Fit – 14.01 million
• Mario Kart Wii – 13.67 million
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl – 8.1 million
• Super Mario Galaxy – 7.66 million
• Mario Party 8 – 6.28 million
• Animal Crossing: City Folk – 3.22 million
• Wii Music – 2.50 million
• Link’s Crossbow Training – 2.44 million
• Mario Super Sluggers – 1.21 million

Nintendo DS

• Nintendogs – 21.67 million
• New Super Mario Bros. – 17.63 million
• Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day – 16.82 million
• Pokemon Diamond/Pearl – 16.48 million
• Mario Kart DS – 13.79 million
• Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day – 13.27 million
• Animal Crossing: Wild World: 10.57 million
• Super Mario 64 DS – 7.16 million
• Mario Party DS – 5.49 million
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness – 4.4 million
• Pokemon Platinum Version – 2.4 million
• Kirby Super Star Ultra – 2.19 million
• Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia – 1.80 million
• Rhythm Heaven – 1.71 million
• Personal Trainer: Cooking – 1.68 million

Did you catch that first one? “Wii Sports – 40.5 million.” Damn! Of course this includes game sales bundled with consoles, but this new figure pushes Wii Sports into the number one spot on the all-time best selling games list. Falling to number two is the title that many thought could sit atop the list forever: Super Mario Brothers – with 40.24 million copies sold. Propelled by ridiculous console sales rates, it took Wii Sports only 110 weeks to pass Mario, its seventh cousin four times removed, and 40mm will become 50mm before we know it. To be honest Wii Sports is probably still our favorite Wii game to date, though Resident Evil 4 certainly gave it a run for its money.

[Via DailyTech]

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