Skyward Sword is Wii's 45th Million Seller in U.S.

Good to hear. It's a shame if anyone who has a Wii misses out on this game.

I'm up to the Song of Heroes trial in Skyloft (about 50 hours of gameplay in) and I have to say it's been worth it and it deserved to sell a million copies. Is there a link to the other 44 games? I'm curious as to how many I've played. I know we played the obvious ones, Brawl, Galaxy, Kart, basically anything by Nintendo, but that's probably only about 20 or 30 games.

Any game with Groose in it will sell well.

@ 1 that would be me

I really enjoy The Legend of Groose, glad to see I'm not alone in this. Well back to the harder difficulty

Very cool! I am sure it doesn't have the same sales figures in Japan, odd how different games sell differently in different places.

Best game ever

Just finished the first dungeon. (got the game a couple days ago)

Good that it's selling because it really showcases some good solid motion controls. Great entry for the 25th anniversary for various reasons, too. Loving the game so far with a couple of minor gripes:

Too much text! Seriously, the dialogue writers need to learn about brevity. It's not badly written it's just needlessly verbose. That's one thing voice acting would probably take care of. However, the "acting" is fantastic. There's a huge amount of attention to the expressions and motions of the characters during the cinematics. So, even though the reading is laborous, the cutscenes are emotionally moving which is the important part!

Another gripe is that the rolling motion requires a little too much motion in my opinion compared to the other techniques and there is a narrow range of speed to distinguish between a slash and a feint to another side before slashing. Overall, there is a bit of delay to get accustomed to with everything gyroscope. For instance, when responding to menu choices if you are too fast to select, it reads your pointing to the right as center and then it gets awkward.

Beyond those gripes, I'm finding it engrossing and fun. I love that every encounter with a new creature is a mystery to be unraveled and really dangerous as there aren't as many hearts laying around and you can't just hack away.

And this is turning into an ironically verbose review, so, erm... GO ZELDA!

Nice to see the Legend is doing good here. Is definitely going to leave the wii on a good note going into the wii u.

A wonderful addition to the Zelda series. I like it.

good to see skyward sword doing ever so well. i wonder what the other 41 wii games that reached a million copies being sold are. super mario galaxy 2, twilight princess, smash bros brawl, just dance are 4 i could name already.

It's one of Nintendo's greatest ever game franchises and Skyward Sword may well be the best Zelda game period. So its no surprise its a million selling game.

I, too, would love a link to the other 44 million-sellers. Might just go out and pick up Skyward Sword today in celebration...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Wii_video_games

Incomplete and possibly unreliable but it's something.

@Swiket How so?

Great news. Not only sold a million but it sold it fast.

Thankfully it was not a case of "There are no games on Wii so let's buy anything", since it is one of Nintendo's best games. As was Super Mario Galaxy 2 a year ago.

And judging by the amount of Iwata Asks articles written, Nintendo themselves are pretty proud of it.

hands down one of the best games ever (one of the best games)

I think it's funny how my list of best games ever is all Nintendo

Well deserved, it's not my favorite Zelda game but great none the less.

Don't you mean 1 million copies in UNDER two months? It'll be two months on the twentieth of Jan. Even more of an impressive achievement. Great game by the way, my gf and I are about 8 or 10 hours in. Although embarrassingly she's better at the swordplay than me!

300 million people in the united states. if you said 3 people per household. thats a copy of SS per 100 households, thats incredible really for a game in less than 2 months.
cue rapturous applause.