| Wii Party | |
|---|---|
 North American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | NDcube Nintendo SPD |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Shuichiro Nishiya |
| Producer(s) | Atsushi Ikeda Hiroshi Sato |
| Series | Wii |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Party |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Wii Party[a] is a party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console.[4] The game heavily borrows game play elements from the Mario Party series, another Nintendo franchise. It is also the first game in the Wii series that Shigeru Miyamoto did not produce.[5] The game was released in Japan on July 8, 2010,[2] in North America on October 3, 2010, in Australia on October 7, 2010, and in Europe on October 8, 2010. Wii Party was revealed by Satoru Iwata in a Financial Results Briefing on May 7, 2010.[6] It received mixed to positive reviews from critics and sold 9.35 million copies worldwide as of September 2021. A sequel, Wii Party U, was released for the Wii U on October 25, 2013.
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