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Monday, Jan 5
Wii Sports best selling game of all time
Wii Sports (Nintendo) – Wii - 40.52 Super Mario Bros (Nintendo) – NES - 40.24 Pokemon Red/Green/Blue (Nintendo) – Game Boy - 31.38 Duck Hunt (Nintendo) – NES - 28.31 Pokemon Gold/Silver (Nintendo) – Game Boy - 23.11 Nintendogs (Nintendo) – DS - 21.37 Wii Play (Nintendo) – Wii - 19.68
Monday, Dec 8
UK Charts: Chart Track software sales for the week ending 06/12
South Africa - Dec 8, 2008 Two more Nintendo titles make the Top Ten cut, as Wii Fit hops into the fray from No. 12 last week to No. 8 (on a sales increase of 43%) while Wii Play ...
Monday, Oct 27
UK Charts: Chart Track software sales for the week ending 25/10
Fable II (Microsoft) Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft) Fifa 09 (EA) Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) Saints Row 2 (THQ) Dead Space (EA) Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive) Wii Fit (Nintendo) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) Midnight Club: Los Angeles (Take 2)
Friday, Oct 17
Nintendo responds to September NPD numbers
“The four Wii games in the top 10 all feature controls just not possible on other video game systems. The Wii Balance Board and Wii Wheel give players new ways to interact with their games, while the Wii Remote controller transforms into a pool cue, table tennis paddle or lightsaber. Consume...
NPD: September 2008 down from September 2007
Wii Fit with Balance Board (Nintendo, Wii) 518 000 Rock Band 2 (MTV Games, Xbox 360) 363 000 Mario Kart Wii with Wheel (Nintendo, Wii) 353 000 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (EA, Xbox) 360 297 000 Wii Play with Remote (Nintendo, Wii) 243 000 Madden NFL 09 (EA, Xbox 360 ) 224 000
NPD: September 2008 down from September 2007
There was no one dominant piece of software this month as a replacement for Halo 3’s 35% share of September sales last year, as all of the titles released this September were more evenly spread out in terms of numbers. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, released during this period, did particu...
NPD: September 2008 down from September 2007
South Africa - Oct 17, 2008 Rock Band 2 (on 360) and Mario Kart Wii sold over 300 000 copies, Mercenaries 2 (on 360), Wii Play and Madden NFL 09 (on 360) all sold over 200 000 units ...
Monday, Oct 13
UK Charts: Chart Track software sales for the week ending 11/10
South Africa - Oct 13, 2008 Another two evergreen Nintendo titles remain in the Top Ten, with Mario Kart Wii sitting pretty at No. 6 (from No. 5 last week) and Wii Play sitting just ...
Tuesday, Oct 7
UK Charts: Chart Track software sales for the week ending 04/10
Fifa 09 (EA) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (LucasArts) Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (Ubisoft) Wii Fit (Nintendo) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (EA) Wii Play (Nintendo) Big Beach Sports (THQ) Pure (Disney Interactive) Carnival: Funfair Games (2K)
Friday, Jun 20
Ubisoft launches Wii Play Zone
South Africa - Set in a tropical paradise Island, Sports Party includes nine sports mini-games which players can participate in either cooperatively or head-to-head. ...
Friday, May 16
NPD: April video game sales total 1.23 bil for US, GTA IV sells ...
Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii separated the two GTA IV games in second place, selling 1.12 million copies, while Nintendo’s Wii Play continues to perform well in fourth with 360 000 copies. Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. ...
Tuesday, Dec 4
Opinion: Editorial: Wii Christmas Buyer's Guide: South Africa edition
Wii Play This is controller+game pack which is only R100 more than a standard Wii remote and offers some great mini-games for the price, so it hardly seems worthwhile buying a controller on its own instead of this pack. The best of the mini games are Shooting Range, where you aim at targets on...
Sunday, Jun 10
Editorial: Next gen consoles - how are they really doing?
Nintendo is smiling all the way to the bank with week upon week of outstanding Wii and DS sales around the globe. For instance, in Japan the Wii and DS are outselling the PS3 and PSP at a ration of 5 to 1. Nintendo's main challenge is producing sufficient stock to keep up with the unprecedented de...
Thursday, Mar 1
Opinion: Editorial: Wii-modelling
We hooked the Wii up and stared lovingly into the blue light which we had all been dreaming about for so long. We started with the essentials: a Wii, a Wii Remote, Wii Sports and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Needless to say there was much competition to be the one with the Wii Remote. Tr...
