Wii sales surpass 5 million in Japan

Japanese publication Famitsu (via MCV) is reporting that the Nintendo Wii has surpassed the 5 million mark for hardware sales. As of January 20, Nintendo sold 5,019,337 units in just less than 14 months since the console's launch. Total sales for the Wii in the United States were 7.38 million as of the end of 2007, according to NPD data released last week.

The top five best-selling games in Japan are, perhaps unsurprisingly, all from Nintendo -- two Mario games and three titles geared towards the casual market. If the list is accurate, then the Wii only has four platinum-selling titles and Mario Galaxy hasn't yet passed the 900,000 threshold. Check out the list after the break.

[Via GameDaily]

Top five best-selling Wii games in Japan:

• Wii Sports* - 2,663,938
• Wii Play - 2,139,084
• Mario Party 8 - 1,153,648
• Wii Fit - 1,113,626
• Super Mario Galaxy - 843,961

* Wii Sports is not packaged with the console in Japan.