Wii Fit step, step, steps its way atop Japanese charts

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Dec 13th 2007 2:30PM

Brawn has finally triumphed over its nerdy nemesis brain, with Nintendo's balancercise board bullying Professor Layton away from the top spot in the Japanese software sales chart. In its second week, Wii Fit sold 150,000 units at retail, making for a grand total of approximately 411,000. Less easy to calculate: the amount of damage Japanese exergamers have incurred while knocking things over in their teeny tiny apartments.

Another notable entry in last week's chart is Hironobu Sakaguchi's post-Final Fantasy Xbox 360 epic, Lost Odyssey. It debuted in seventh position with 55,000, a number pointed out by Gamasutra to be over 25,000 less than Blue Dragon's opening week last year. Though the JRPG still fared much better than most Xbox 360 games (what with it actually breaking into the top ten), even Assassin's Creed managed a modest 41,000 units during its first week.

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Tags: Lost-Odyssey, LostOdyssey, Sakaguchi, Wii, Wii-Fit, WiiFit, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (57)

Perhaps because people who bought it already had an XBox 360?

I honestly don't understand what's with all the hatred. It seems that the people who hate it, have never even tried it before. And the people who actually have tried it, like it.

I'm open to any type of gaming as long as it's fun. Because last I checked, that's what gaming is about. Having fun.

I don't feel either way about the game since I don't own a Wii. However, if I did have one, I'd probably pass this one up since it's not really up my alley of gaming. The only activity I've heard of that interests me on it is the ski jump, and I don't think I'd buy the game for one of the 40 activities.

Exergaming just isn't my idea of fun, even though I did like DDR for about a year. :P

It's guitar hero, but instead of pretending to play the guitar, you are pretending to exercise.

2 reason why this isn't released on US.

1.. What's the weight limit for this? If it's 250LB and less, That will limit it to half of Wii owners. ;)

2.. and with US laws, how many seconds will it take for some idiots to fall off this thing and sue Nintendo for millions of dollars?

And I will pass, It's fine to pretend you are playing a game on Wii Sports, but pretending to work-out? That's just stupid.