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Nintendo overtakes Sony’s ‘Gran Turismo 5: Prologue’ at the top of the All Formats Chart as ‘Mario Kart Wii’ records the 8th biggest launch week ever in the UK. ‘Mario Kart Wii’ is far and away the biggest launch of any Nintendo published title. It’s also bigger than the launch weeks of all 5 other Mario Wii games combined (Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Strikers, Mario Party 8 and Super Paper Mario).
Mario has performed heroically on Nintendo’s next-gen format with Wii games featuring Mario accounting for 21.2% of all Wii units since the launch of the console in December 2006. There are now 4 Mario games in the All Formats Top 40 with Sega’s ‘Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games’ down one place to No3 (behind ‘Gran Turismo 5: Prologue), ‘New Super Mario Bros’ at No23 and ‘Mario Kart DS’ an All Formats Top 40 re-entry at No30. ‘Pro Evolution Soccer 2008’, another strong performer on Nintendo Wii, is a non-mover at No4, while Ubisoft’s ‘Rainbow Six: Vegas 2’ continues to lose ground, down 2 places to No5.
Sales of ‘Condemned 2’ from Sega fall by 20% in its second week, down from No5 to No6, while Activision still have an All Formats Top 10 presence thanks to ‘Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock’ only falling 2 places to No8 and ‘Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare’ climbing one place to No9. The new DS and PC versions of Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ help it sneak back up the chart, up from No27 to No15, but otherwise there are no All Format Top 40 new entries this week to compete with the blockbuster ‘Mario Kart Wii’.

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Nintendo overtakes Sony’s ‘Gran Turismo 5: Prologue’ at the top of the All Formats Chart as ‘Mario Kart Wii’ records the 8th biggest launch week ever in the UK. ‘Mario Kart Wii’ is far and away the biggest launch of any Nintendo published title. It’s also bigger than the launch weeks of all 5 other Mario Wii games combined (Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Strikers, Mario Party 8 and Super Paper Mario).

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Segata Sanshiro said:

SEGA continues to dominate

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Nintendo overtakes Sony’s ‘Gran Turismo 5: Prologue’ at the top of the All Formats Chart as ‘Mario Kart Wii’ records the 8th biggest launch week ever in the UK. ‘Mario Kart Wii’ is far and away the biggest launch of any Nintendo published title. It’s also bigger than the launch weeks of all 5 other Mario Wii games combined (Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Strikers, Mario Party 8 and Super Paper Mario).

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iceatcs said:

Whooa Imagine: Babies got boost!

Under-aged pregnant coming up

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‘Pro Evolution Soccer 2008’, another strong performer on Nintendo Wii, is a non-mover at No4

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Nintendo overtakes Sony’s ‘Gran Turismo 5: Prologue’ at the top of the All Formats Chart as ‘Mario Kart Wii’ records the 8th biggest launch week ever in the UK. ‘Mario Kart Wii’ is far and away the biggest launch of any Nintendo published title. It’s also bigger than the launch weeks of all 5 other Mario Wii games combined (Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Strikers, Mario Party 8 and Super Paper Mario).

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test_account said:

Damn, thats a great preformace by Mario Kart Wii! I wonder how many weeks it will stay on #1.

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Visualante said:

18 (16) [360] Dark Sector (D3p)

Hmm.. they built their own tech.. but then again UE3 licensing isn't cheap either. I can't imagine they're raking in a huge profit on a performance like that. It'll be gone in a couple of weeks, they'll have to slash the price if they want to sell.

Assassin's Creed PC is a huge flop.

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TheExodu5 said:

AC PC is not a huge flop. Do you realize how little effort is required to bring it to the PC as opposed to developing it outright?

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flipping_heck said:

Sega Wii x 5
Nintendo x 2
Ubisoft x 1
Konami x 1
Activision x 1
Take-Two x 1
Midway x 1

Glad to see Mario Kart Wii selling well, i was in town yesterday and saw a clerk in Gametstaion let a little kid have a go on MK and he was enjoying himself with the steering wheel. The little kid was persuading his dad to buy the game for him now, brought a smile to my face

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skinnyrattler said:

Nintendo and Sega sitting in a tree....

It's a shame Nintendo can't rectify their game production issues. It's like they make factories, where all games are made as carts, then converted to CDs, just to slow things down. Is there any reason, besides control, for them to have disk shortages? WTF, make a new factory. Now, that can't be hard. I can understand hardware shortages. But disk shortages? Still? If publishers want to buy more, they are stuck with them.

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Visualante said:

This brand is supposed to have weight. Yes I know 2 people can port a game in a weekend, and at the end of the day that's free money.

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It’s also bigger than the launch weeks of all 5 other Mario Wii games combined (Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Strikers, Mario Party 8 and Super Paper Mario)

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Raist said:

I think we should see the same thing for MK. Well, maybe not in Spain and Italy tho.

edit : just got the Italy data for last week. I'll post them in the other thread.

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later said:

Where is the second shipment nintendo??

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Psychotext said:

How long will it last though? PES attack next week?

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Visualante said:

Assassin's Creed PC is a huge flop.

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Phife Dawg said:

Why not in Spain? Nintendo is the current gen market leader there as well. If this doesn't debut at No. 1 it's rather disappointing. I agree with the Italy part though .

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schuelma said:

Wow:

‘Mario Kart Wii’ is far and away the biggest launch of any Nintendo published title. It’s also bigger than the launch weeks of all 5 other Mario Wii games combined (Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Strikers, Mario Party 8 and Super Paper Mario).

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pswii60 said:

Mario Kart Wii has, without a doubt, had the biggest pre-launch TV marketing campaign I've ever witnessed here in the UK for a videogame.

Almost every advert break on the main channels it has been another one of the various Mario Kart Wii TV ads.

I wonder why the other console manufacturers/publishers aren't taking note and advertising in similar amounts. In comparison, I saw all of one Halo 3 advert last year, must've seen the Mario Kart Wii ad 40 frickin' times.

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Visualante said:

Assassin's Creed PC is a huge flop.

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pswii60 said:

Mario Kart Wii has, without a doubt, had the biggest pre-launch TV marketing campaign I've ever witnessed here in the UK for a videogame.

Almost every advert break on the main channels it has been another one of the various Mario Kart Wii TV ads.

I wonder why the other console manufacturers/publishers aren't taking note and advertising in similar amounts. In comparison, I saw all of one Halo 3 advert last year, must've seen the Mario Kart Wii ad 40 frickin' times.

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