The zombie is five steps away, you’re cornered, and you’ve got one last bullet in the chamber. If you were just playing Super Mario Galaxy you might as well turn the gun on yourself. A recent highly scientific study found that when it comes to putting a bullet in a humanoid target’s brain, Super Mario Galaxy doesn’t help.
The NPD Group has compiled fifteen years worth of video game sales in the United States, determining that Nintendo’s 2006 release Wii Play is the industry’s top seller, beating out Grand Theft Autos and Call of Dutys easily.
This is a strange one. Super Smash Bros. Brawl is best played with the classic controller or even a Gamecube controller. So when a retailer bundles it with an extra controller, which one do you think they’d pick?
An analysis by website Gamasutra of first-half sales figures for the three big gaming consoles shows that the Wii’s hits are older hits.
Never mind what’s at the bottom of this barrel, here’s a list of 29 Wii games from Nintendo and the amount of hours people play them, per gamer.
Wii Fit. Well, fastest game to reach half a million copies sold, that is.
The answer to the question “What was 2008′s bestselling game in the U.S.?” is “Wii Play.” Or is it? What about all those multi-platform, multi-SKU releases like Madden and Call of Duty: World at War?
To be honest, we’re still not sure. The NPD Group released data for the “Top Selling Games Annual 2008″ with Wii Play coming in at number one, boasting 5.28 million copies sold.
