SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL SMASHES NINTENDO SALES RECORDS
Wii Game Sells at a Rate of More than 120 per Minute
REDMOND, Wash., March 17, 2008 – After just one week on store shelves, Super Smash Bros.® Brawl for Wii has become the fastest-selling video game in Nintendo of America’s history. Since its launch on March 9, the feature-packed fighting action game has sold more than 1.4 million units in the United States, including more than 874,000 on March 9 alone. It has sold at a rate of more than 120 units per minute between launch and March 16.
“Super Smash Bros. Brawl has made the leap from video game to cultural phenomenon,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Game reviewers and the public alike praise its fun game play and extensive, inventive content.”
Super Smash Bros. Brawl features a nearly limitless variety of options for players. Dozens of classic Nintendo characters like Mario™ and Pikachu® are joined by industry icons like Sonic The Hedgehog™ and Metal Gear’s Solid Snake for all-out four-player battles. The endless customization keeps players coming back for more. The previous game in the series, Super Smash Bros.® Melee, became the best-selling Nintendo GameCube™ game of all time with more than 7 million copies sold worldwide, so it’s no surprise to see this latest installment racking up record numbers.
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TOTAL SOFTWARE BY LABEL (units)
Nintendo – 14.1% EA Games – 10.1% Sega – 9.6% THQ – 4.9% Activision – 4.5% Ubisoft – 4.2% Microsoft – 3.5% Capcom – 3.4% …
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Famitsu is the leading gaming magazine/news publisher in Japan. The scores are out of 40.
1. Phantom Hourglass – 39
2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360 version) – 38
3. Super Mario Galaxy – 38
4. GTA San Andreas (PS2) – 38
5. Call of Duty 4 (360) – 37
6. Call of Duty 4 (PS3) – 37
7. Minna no Golf Portable 2 (PSP) – 37
8. God of War 2 (PS2) – 37
9. Halo 3 – 37
10. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (PS3) 36
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This game actually looks pretty good.
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March 17, 2008
Are you afraid of the dark? If so, this is a great week to face your fears with a pair of eerie new game offerings on Nintendo’s Virtual Console™. One will plunge you deep underground to navigate perilous caves, while the other puts you on the front lines of a darkly sinister space war. In either case, your frights will give way to serious fun.
Nintendo adds new games to the Wii™ Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are: