Wii Play, released as Your First Step to Wii in Japan, is a party video game for the Wii console. It is a counterpart to the games Wii Sports, Wii Music and Wii Fit. It features minigames that use characters from the Mii Channel. Several of the games featured are from E3 2006 demos such as the Duck Hunt-styled shooting demo and Table Tennis, as well as all-new minigames. Wii Play can be purchased as a standalone game or usually bundled with a Wii Remote, and is the third best-selling game on the Wii , with 27.38 million copies sold worldwide as of March 31, 2010. A sequel for Wii Play called... Wii Play: Motion was released on June 13, 2011 in North America and later on June 24 in Europe. Wii Play consists of nine games. All games are designed for 2 players, but can also be played by a single player, with a computer-controlled second player in games where it is necessary. No Nunchuks are required for any of the games; however, players can use a Nunchuk as a substitute for the D-Pad for the Tanks! game if they wish. After playing each game another game is unlocked, until all nine games are available.
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