Wii Fit hits 1 million in Japan
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 10:38pm by Jake
Breaking news straight from Nikkei (An official Japanese business news source) confirmed through Nintendo that Wii Fit has hit the one million sales mark as of January 6th, 2008. Having only launched a little over a month ago, (Dec. 1st) this stands as quite an accomplishment. Who knew the Japanese were so into gaming fitness. This number is even more impressive when compared to Wii Sports (sold separate from Wii in Japan) which took a whole year to sell two million copies). These figures really show the evolving Japanese gaming market which has shifted farther away from “hard core” titles in favor of puzzlers, and fitness games.
This also gives hope to the upcoming Wii Fit launch for North America and Europe which should be a hit. Speaking of the NA launch, 1up.com has sneaked a bit of news into their Wii Fit article that only spells out an exciting summer.
“…Wii Fit is expected to be one of the year’s biggest sellers both in Japan and abroad. North Americans can expect to see the game on May 20th…”
Nintendo still has Wii Fit listed as TBA, but we’ll keep a close eye on this rumor. Meanwhile, lets sit back and behold another revolution in the way we game.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Screw the Wii Board, that Jogging game on the Wii Fitness game looked a barrel of fun. And you can use two Wiimotes for 2-player.
The missus said that the jogging game would be much more fun then actually jogging as you can do it in your home, not have to combat the weather and it looks amusing having all your Mii characters over the park – as well as having races.
Although by time it comes out over here in Europe I may be living near a beach so the whole jogging thing may have to be taken out there. I’ll just have to cut out paper figures of Nintendo characters to put on the beach when I run past them.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Hope this kicks ass in NA!