Nintendo is no stranger to sales success, with the Wii having sold over 90 million units and the 3DS growing with popularity by the day.

The video game giant’s most recent accolade is having the Wii Balance Board bestowed with the Guinness World Record for “best-selling personal weighing device”. To achieve this honour, the peripheral sold a whopping 32 million units between its launch in December 2007 and November 2010. This impressive total comprises 22.6 million bundled with Wii Fit and 9.4 million bundled with Wii Fit Plus.

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Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has recently become an official world record holder (as recognised by Guinness World Records) for attaining the most successful launch of an entertainment product… ever.

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2009’s excellent action adventure game from Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed II, has today been awarded a Guinness World Record, and will be featured in the next iteration of the ‘Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition’ book for its achievement.

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The Guinness World Record for high score on a single song for Guitar Hero III has been broken.

13 year old Daniel Johnson shattered the record at Blockbusters’ Guitar Hero 24-Hour Marathon. Playing on an Xbox 360, Daniel scored 890 971 on ‘Through the Fire and Flames’ by Dragonforce at Expert level on his first attempt. Previous record holder Chris Chike scored 880 920 in March 2008, meaning that Daniel’s new world record eclipsed the previous record by over 10 000 points.

Daniel commented “I’m glad that I had the opportunity to break the record and help people learn about Education is Freedom.”

The Guitar Hero 24-Hour Marathon was an event benefiting Education is Freedom, a Dallas non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the education achievement of children in Dallas. The top five contestants were awarded prizes from Activision, Blockbuster and Southwest Airlines.