Nintendo today announced that Wii Play has sold over 10 million units in the U.S. according to statistics gathered about the title since its release in February 2007.

"Wii Play mini-games are fun and they get people playing together," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "Even if you believe people are buying Wii Play solely for the controller, that indicates that there are now more than 10 million people who have an extra Wii Remote controller in their homes. When added to the 12.7 million Wii Remote controllers that have sold separately, this reinforces the growing 'social gaming' trend we have been seeing where friends and family use their Wii games as a social hub – both in person and online."

On the hardware side of things, Nintendo notes that sales of the Wii system are up roughly 74 percent over February 2008 with 753,000, bringing lifetime U.S. sales to nearly 19 million. The Nintendo DS sold nearly 588,000 in February for a U.S. lifetime total of nearly 29 million.