Top 10 Best-Selling Wii U Games

The Wii U may lacked the success that Nintendo’s previous home console had, but Nintendo still managed to put out high quality games for the system. Moreover, the lack of hardware sales didn’t stop the company of selling millions of their games – many games on the Wii U hold attach rates of higher than 30%, and some as high as 50%.

Thanks to Nintendo’s latest financial briefing, we now have the updated worldwide sales numbers for the top-selling games available on the Wii U. Head below to see what they are!

[Stealth20k]

Really great sales.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

Mostly good games, and very good sales (all things considered), but its kind of amusing that pretty much all of these games have Mario in the title. We always get told that other kinds of gamers only buy shooters (and apparently, they're chavs), but Nintendo gamers buy a variety and are somehow different.. Xenoblade Chronicles X, Bayonetta, Pokken tournament, Fatal Frame, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Hyrule warriors, etc couldn't outsell Mario Party 10, or break into the top 10..

[deafdani]

Yes, it's true that Mario games are the best selling games for Nintendo... but that doesn't automatically means Nintendo gamers don't play anything else. It's just that Mario games, generally speaking, are insanely popular.

Hyrule Warriors is actually one of the best selling Wii U games, it broke the 1 million mark a while ago. Bayonetta 2 broke that million mark pretty recently, too. It wouldn't surprise me if Pokken Tournament manages to do that eventually, as well.

That leaves us with Fatal Frame and Monster Hunter 3. The first is extremely niche, it will never be a top seller, and the other is just a port of a Wii game, that was also available on the 3DS. Also, Japan (where Monster Hunter sells the most) is more about portable gaming (especially when it comes to Monster Hunter), and it shows. Monster Hunter Tri on the 3DS sold almost 3 million copies.

[Stealth20k]

Wii U software sales, especially for the top games are something else. I mean, Splatoon is the highest selling console exclusive in years for a new IP.

[RPGrinder]

Nintendo continues to sell a boat load of software.

[superchiller]

They really don't sell a "boatload", the company is in very poor shape in the gaming industry and community.

[iplay1up2]

Yes they do sell a "boatload" 1st Party Nintendo games have outsold some big 3rd party big games that release on 360/XB1/PS3/and PS4 ! You are just an idiot. I have never bashed another person by name calling on this site, but man you REALLY are an idiot! TROLL!

[deafdani]

Dude, there's not a single PS4 game that comes anywhere close in sales to the best selling Wii U games, despite the fact that the PS4 has more than 3X the install base.

- Best selling Wii U game > Mario Kart 8 (7.5 million)
- Best selling PS4 game > Uncharted 4 (2.7 million)

It's astonishing that you're so blinded by your Nintendo hate, that you can't even accept the F.A.C.T that Nintendo games sell like hotcakes. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that hotcakes sell like Nintendo games.

Try and get some facts straight every once in a while, ffs.