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Nintendo has announced 43 million copies of Wii Fit and Wii Fit plus sold worldwide, as it announced Wii Fit U.

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Nintendo has announced a Maryland US District judge dismissed a patent infringement suit brought against the company by IA Labs CA, LLC which claimed the Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus products infringed on one its patents.

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Nintendo’s announced this afternoon (via EG) that sales of Wii have hit 30 million in Europe since its December 2006 launch, making it the biggest-selling console this generation. As of last August, PS3 sales were as of 22 million units, while Xbox 360 numbers in Europe are a bit of an unknown so far. Nintendo’s also said that 41.9 million Wii Balance Boards have been sold since 2008. The board came bundled with Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus, with sales at 22.6 million for the former and 19.3 million for the latter.

Nintendo’s announced a Black Wii Fit Plus bundle for the UK, and it’ll be available from October 7.

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The NPD has released a top ten list of the best selling games of 2010 and amazingly, Call of Duty: Black Ops is royally serene at the very head.

Other notable entries include Black Ops’ precursor, Modern Warfare 2, at eighth place; Red Dead Redemption at fifth; and NBA 2K11 sneaking in at tenth.

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MSN News is reporting that 65 year-old actress Helen Mirren received £500,000 to appear in a Wii Fit Plus advert.

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Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver and Wii Sports Resort were Nintendo’s big software earners during the last fiscal year, its latest financial report’s revealed.

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New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus have all moved 10 million units in Lifetime-to-Date numbers released this morning by Nintendo for the period between April 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.

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Just Dance tops the UK charts for the second week in a row, it’s been confirmed.

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ELSPA’s announced that Wii Sports Resort and Professor Layton and the Curious Village were the top-selling Wii and DS games, respectively, last year in the UK.

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Wii Fit Plus has gone to No. 1 in the latest UK charts, having entered it last week at two.

Last week’s No. 1, Football Manager 2010, slipped to four in the charts. The top three is rounded off by FIFA 10 and Wii Sports Resort.

Dragon Age: Origins debuted at five.

Find the full top ten below. Last week’s data is here.

Hidden within a supplement to its quarterly earnings report, Nintendo has revealed that Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box has sold 1.26 million units since its launch outside of Japan.

Also listed as a first party million-seller was the Tomodachi Collection and Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver – each for DS – and Wii Sports Resort has reached 6.97 million units worldwide, and Wii Fit Plus 2.13 million.

Hooray for Layton. Give us more please.

Full thing via Joystiq.

NoA’s Reggie Fils-Aime reckons the recently-announced Wii price cut and the imminent launch of Wii Fit Plus will have a seven-figure impact to the machine’s sales.

“There are literally millions of consumers out there who want a Wii and had been on the sidelines,” he said, talking to the FT.

“They’d been waiting for that little nudge to go out and pick it up – the price decline, the sampling, the launching of key software like Wii Fit Plus – we believe it’s what’s pushing them over the edge to get into the category.”

And what sort of sales increase have we seen from the cut, Reggie?

“The consumer response has been very strong to the price reduction,” he said, adding that it was too early to release precise sales figures.

We’ll know soon enough.

Nintendo’s released a brand new video for Wii Fit Plus.

Catch it after the jump, courtesy of Default Prime.

It’s out tomorrow in the US. It’s out here in the UK at the end of the month.

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Nintendo has announced that Wii Fit Plus will be released in Europe on October 30.

It adds 15 new balance games and six new strength-training and yoga bit, and also allows you to customize your routines, should you feel like mixing things up a bit or targeting specific areas of your body.

There’s also a calorimeter tracking your progress and comes with the Wii balance board.

Nintendo says that the game estimates a 70kg (154lb) person can burn 140kcal just doing the Hula Hoop exercise for half an hour.

Good to know, that. Also, it’s out in the US this coming Monday, October 4.

More through Eurogamer.

IGN’s posted up five movies of Wii Fit Plus, showing bike-riding, “flapping” and riding around on a Segway.

Looks great. Here’s a thing, though. Get a bike, leave the house and ride it somewhere. Who knows? You may see something inspiring and unrelated to the inside of your house, thus reinvigorating your ever-dwindling lust for life.

It’s out on October 4.

Wii Fit Plus will launch in the US on October 4, NoA’s Reggie Fils-Aime said at the 2009 GameStop Manager Conference today.

The exec also announced new US colours for DSi, the Wiimote and Wii MotionPlus. As of September 13, DSi will be available in white and pink: the machine’s currently on sale in blue and black in the States.

The Wiimote and Wii MotionPlus will get new black SKUs.

PR after the break. We’ll check on a Euro date this morning.

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said he sees three titles being released this year – Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros Wii and Wii Fit Plus – to sell over ten million units.

“I believe each of these three software titles have the potential to surpass 10 million copies worldwide in the whole fiscal year,” said the exec, speaking in an investor Q&A released by Nintendo yesterday.

He added: “We recognise this Q1 result is not the strongest and closer to the lower parameters of our expectations, but we expect we can reverse the situation through the full-fiscal year and therefore did not revise out forecast.”

Mario Galaxy 2 to sell a billion units at launch? Bet on it.

Nintendo has said that fitness games are now accepted in the videogame market, and are no longer scoffed at.

“When we first announced the Wii Balance Board, people were skeptical,” said Nintendo’s Denise Kaigler. “But consumers responded quickly and told their friends about it. Now when a new fitness game like Wii Fit Plus is announced, no one bats an eye.

“Fitness games are now an accepted part of the video game landscape.”

Wii Fit has currently sold 18 million copies and Wii Fit Plus is expected later this year.

More over on Kotaku.

Japanese Nintendo news site Rambling Man’s rumoured a bunch of product dates, including one for Wii Fit Plus. Fancy.

Here you go:

• August 6: Color Changing Tingle’s Love Balloon Trip
• September 17: Forever Blue 2: The Call of the Sea
• September 3: Sloan and MacHale’s Mysterious Story 2
• October 1: Inazuma Eleven 2: The Miracle of the Invader
• October 1: Wii Fit Plus

More on Kotaku.