DS 249,000 Wii 168,000 PSP 158,000 PS3 53,000 PS2 21,000 360 8,700
mario party DS 160K (763K) Wii Fit 120k GT5P 108K DQ4 78K (854K) PL2 73K (482K) Super Mario …
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MCV asked a few people form the Gameing industry what they wanted for Christmas. These are their answers:
Doug Bone, Square Enix
1) Gamers to inherit the Earth back (from Nicole Kidman, Patrick Stewart, Julie Walters and their chums).
2) A publisher merger/acquisition to take place, but without all of their rivals instantly pretending to “welcome the challenge”, whilst secretly running to the toilet every ten minutes.
3) Larry Sparks to get through a meeting without reminding me how successful Tomb Raider was.
Andy Payne, Mastertronic/ELSPA
1) For Garry Williams to stop quoting the Treaty of Rome, referring to ‘Long Tails’, ‘slicing of the salami’, ‘pocket money prices’, ‘delaystation’ and other meaningless jargon in our new office.
2) For Garry Williams to read his incoming emails and actually understand them before jumping to conclusions, and to cease and desist from providing a Les Dawson-style version of assorted Pussy Cat Dolls tracks every time a female member of staff walks into the office.
3) Thus leading to Garry Williams reading his outward bound emails and ensuring that they are focused, to the point and free of double line spacing, rants and quadruple dots. Oh yes, and for said mails to refer to the sender’s subject matter as opposed to resembling the ramblings of James Joyce on a bad day with piles. If Jesus and/or Mohammed can deliver these, then I will convert to their religions toute suite!
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01. Super Mario Galaxy—Nintendo (Wii) 02. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day—Nintendo (DS) 03. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare—Activision (Xbox 360) 04. Assassin’s Creed—Ubisoft …
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Nintendo Wii
1. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) 2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) 3. NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (Sega) 4. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Capcom) 5. Metroid …
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UK
01 (01) [WII] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega) 02 (02) [NDS] Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo) 03 (05) [NDS] More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima …
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Nintendo Wii
North America: 1. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) 2. Wii Play (Nintendo) 3. Carnival Games (Global Star) 4. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) 5. Guitar Hero …
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– Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo): 451,845 units sold Release: 11/01/07
– Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo): 2,152,373 units sold Release: 12/02/06
– Biohazard Umbrella Chronicles (Wii, Capcom): 146,925 units sold …
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Voice chat/Virtual Console
– Reggie talked about how Nintendo is still considering voicechat, and how he wouldn’t be surprised to see it on Wii in the future.
– Both expect it to happen (when Nintendo say stuff like this, it basically means it is happening) but are dumbfounded by how long it is taking.
– Both really hope it comes out in time for Smash, but are doubtful.
– For the majority of VC games, we’re not going to see modifications or upgrades (like we did with Pokemon Snap), simply because Nintendo doesn’t need to do it.
– Don’t expect a VC price drop in the future – they’re doing great and there’s no need to change anything.
– Hope to see more import games (like Sin and Punishment) and expect this because it appears that Nintendo is paying attention to the wider gaming community.
NPD
– Both Wii and DS did exceptionally well.
– Analysts are predicting around 1.6-1.7 million for Wii in December.
– Make sure you camp out if you want to get a Wii – don’t go on ebay or anything because you will be ripped off.
– If the quantity had been there, Wii sales would have definitely been over 1 million. Nintendo would be kicking themselves right now because of their inability to get more units out.
– Very solid performance by 360 (not too far away from Wii) and PSP, as well as Playstation 2. Playstation 3 numbers are still comparatively low, but much improved from last month.
– Galaxy released a week later than COD4, so both games are basically selling at the same pace – if Galaxy came out earlier, then it would probably have reached around the same numbers as COD4.
– Guitar Hero 3 Wii should be a 1 million seller by the end of the year, which should do very good things for future Wii 3rd party support and also proves that 3rd party games can sell very well if they are high quality and appeal to the Wii audience. EA should be kicking themselves for not releasing Rock Band on Wii.
– Bozon thinks it’s taken way too long for the mono issue in Guitar Hero 3 Wii to be fixed. Action needs to be taken.
Wii Software LTD’s
Super Mario Galaxy = 1.2 million
Smackdown vs Raw 2008 = 53,000 – not very good first-month numbers, and comparatively lower to PS2 and 360.
Carnival Games = 300,000 – has sold better than Nintendo’s Big Brain Academy.
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Wii
1 SUPER MARIO GALAXY Nintendo 2 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK Activision 3 PLAY W/ REMOTE Nintendo
Handhelds
NDS MARIO PARTY Nintendo NDS LEGEND OF ZELDA: PHANTOM …
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This is slightly odd! According to a UK bookie, Paddy Power, betting on Video games is on the rise. In 2003 they only had 60 bets this year they reached …
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1. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360, Activision) – 1.57 million 2. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) – 1.12 million 3. Assassin’s Creed (Xbox 360, Ubisoft) – 980k 4. …
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Germany:
01. Need for Speed ProStreet (PS2) 02. Brain Training (DS) 03. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) 04. More Brain Training (DS) 05. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) …
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01. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 150,000 / 411,000 02. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) – 107,000 / 646,000 03. [NDS] Tales of Innocence (Bandai-Namco) – 104,000 / NEW …
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DSL 165000 Wii 110000 PSP 88000 PS3 38000 PS2 15000 360 7800
1. WiiFit 153000 (407000) 2. Tales of Innocence 108000 3. Layton 2 101000 (409000) 4. Minna no Golf Portable 2 86000 5. …
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1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2. Guitar Hero III 3. Half-Life 2: The Orange Box 4. BioShock 5. God of War II 6. Super Mario Galaxy 7. The …
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