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PAL Charts - Week 27, 2008

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Many many thanks to felipeko for the automated formating scripts :)
Thanks to dabra, Captain Smoker, Frankfurter, donny2112, test_account, Phife Dawg, tiong_fi and Kurosaki Ichigo for their contribution.

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UK :

It’s a stalemate at the top of the All Formats Chart as ‘Super Smash Bros: Brawl’ fends off competition from ‘Battlefield: Bad Company’ at No2 and ‘Lego Indiana Jones’ at No3 – all non-movers this week.
Sales of Nintendo’s critically acclaimed brawler drop 48% in its second week, while sales of EA’s latest in the Battlefield franchise and LucasArts’ ‘Lego Indiana Jones’ both fall by 31%. Indiana Jones has to watch his back as several sports games are breathing down his neck: ‘Big Beach Sports’ from THQ climbs one place to No4, only 350 sales short of catching the LucasArts title. Sega celebrate two All Formats Top 10 Olympics games with ‘Beijing 2008’ sprinting from No9 to No5 and ‘Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games’ edging back into the Top 10, up from No11 to No8, while Take 2’s ‘Top Spin 3’ serves up a 2 place jump from No8 to No6.
Nintendo have the only format-exclusive games to chart in the All Formats Top 10 with ‘Wii Fit’ getting more regular Top 10 exercise despite dropping 3 places from No4 to No7, while ‘Wii Play’ bounces back into the Top 10, up from No12 to No9. Vivendi capture the highest chart position for a film tie-in, ‘The Bourne Conspiracy’ up from No15 to No10, ahead of Activision’s ‘Kung Fu Panada’, this week’s highest climber, up from No40 to No16. ‘Mario Kart Wii’ and ‘Metal Gear Solid 4’ both fall out of the All Formats Top 10, down from No7 to No14 for Mario and No6 to No15 for MGS4. There is a re-entry for ‘Unreal Tournament III’ at No18 thanks to the release of the Xbox 360 version, while the highest new entry is Sony’s ‘Buzz! Quiz TV’ at No22, the first Buzz! game for PS3, ahead of new DS Pokemon duo ‘Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time’ at No30 and ‘Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness’ at No35.
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TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - INDIVIDUAL FORMATS (UNITS) - Week 27, 2008

01 (01) [WII] Super Smash Bros: Brawl (Nintendo)
02 (04) [WII] Big Beach Sports (Thq)
03 (02) [360] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
04 (03) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
05 (08) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
06 (16) [360] Beijing 2008 (Sega)
07 (09) [NDS] Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
08 (06) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
09 (05) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots (Konami)
10 (07) [PS3] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
11 (19) [PS3] Beijing 2008 (Sega)
12 (__) [360] Unreal Tournament Iii (Midway)
13 (12) [WII] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
14 (11) [NDS] Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat? (Nintendo)
15 (__) [PS3] Buzz! Quiz Tv (Sony Computer Ent.)
16 (17) [360] Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)
17 (23) [WII] Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)
18 (20) [360] The Bourne Conspiracy (Vivendi Games)
19 (27) [NDS] My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (Ubisoft)
20 (22) [WII] Top Spin 3 (Take 2)
21 (13) [WII] Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
22 (29) [PS3] Top Spin 3 (Take 2)
23 (10) [NDS] Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
24 (24) [WII] Sonic And The Secret Rings (Sega)
25 (30) [360] Top Spin 3 (Take 2)
26 (14) [PSP] Crisis Core: Final Fantasy Vii (Square Enix Europe)
27 (15) [PS2] Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
28 (25) [PS3] The Bourne Conspiracy (Vivendi Games)
29 (31) [NDS] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
30 (__) [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Time (Nintendo)
31 (39) [WII] Guitar Hero Iii: Legends Of Rock (Activision)
32 (32) [WII] Game Party (Midway)
33 (28) [NDS] Cooking Mama 2 (505 Games)
34 (__) [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Darkness (Nintendo)
35 (__) [NDS] Kung Fu Panda (Activision)
36 (21) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)
37 (34) [NDS] More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
38 (37) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
39 (38) [NDS] Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)
40 (40) [360] Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (Electronic Arts)


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Ireland :
TOP 20 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE (ALL PRICES) - Week 27, 2008

01 (02) Super Smash Bros: Brawl (Nintendo)
02 (01) Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
03 (04) Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)
04 (06) Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
05 (03) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
06 (__) Kung Fu Panda (Activision)
07 (07) Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
08 (05) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots (Konami)
09 (08) Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
10 (10) Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat? (Nintendo)
11 (12) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
12 (09) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
13 (13) Wii Play (Nintendo)
14 (11) Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
15 (17) Sonic And The Secret Rings (Sega)
16 (20) The Bourne Conspiracy (Vivendi Games)
17 (__) The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Disney Interactive Studios)
18 (15) Sonic Rush Adventure (Sega)
19 (16) Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
20 (__) Top Spin 3 (Take 2)


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Denmark :
TOP 20 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE (ALL PRICES) - Week 27, 2008

01 (01) Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Activision)
02 (04) Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Activision)
03 (03) Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
04 (07) The Sims 2: Ikea Home Stuff (Electronic Arts)
05 (__) Pro Cycling Manager 2008: Tour De France (K.e. Media)
06 (06) Grand Theft Auto Iv (K.e. Media)
07 (02) Super Smash Bros: Brawl (Nintendo)
08 (05) Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
09 (08) Guitar Hero Iii: Legends Of Rock (Activision)
10 (11) Singstar Summer Party (Nordisk Film)
11 (__) Buzz! Quiz Tv (Nordisk Film)
12 (09) Uefa Euro 2008 Austria-switzerland (Electronic Arts)
13 (15) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (K.e. Media)
14 (10) Need For Speed: Prostreet (Electronic Arts)
15 (__) Diablo Ii (Vivendi Games)
16 (__) Diablo Ii - Lords Of Destruction (Vivendi Games)
17 (14) Counter-strike: Source (Electronic Arts)
18 (20) Warcraft Iii: Reign Of Chaos (Vivendi Games)
19 (__) Beijing 2008 (Pan Vision)
20 (__) Warcraft Iii: Frozen Throne (Vivendi Games)

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Netherlands :
Week 27, 2008http://www.dutchcharts.nl/game_charts.asp?cat=&year=2008&date=20080705

01 (01) [WII] Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Nintendo)
02 (__) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (10) [PS3] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
04 (07) [360] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
05 (03) [WII] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
06 (05) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
07 (06) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto 4 (Take 2 Interactive)
08 (__) [NDS] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
09 (02) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami)
10 (08) [360] Grand Theft Auto 4 (Take 2 Interactive)


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France :
Week 25, 2008http://www.sell.fr/spip.php?article57

01 (04) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (01) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4 : Guns of the Patriots (Konami)
03 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
04 (__) [PS3] Top Spin 3 (Take Two Interactive)
05 (05) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)

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Spain :
Week 26, 2008

01 (__) [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
02 (01) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots (Konami)
03 (03) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
04 (__) [NDS] Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat ? (Nintendo)
05 (04) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2 Interactive)
06 (__) [PS3] Top SPin 3 (Take 2)
07 (03) [PSP] Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix Europe)
08 (05) [PS3] Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit (Atari)
09 (07) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
10 (__) [PC] The Sims 2 Megaluxe (Electronic Arts)


June 2008

01 (__) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots (Konami)
02 (05) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
03 (__) [WII] Super Smash Bros: Brawl (Nintendo)
04 (__) [PS3] Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (Atari)
05 (03) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
06 (01) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2 Interactive)
07 (__) [PS2] PES 2008 (Konami)
08 (09) [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
09 (07) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
10 (__) [PS2] Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (LucasArts Entertainment)

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Italy :
Week 26, 2008

01 (__) [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
02 (03) [NDS] Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat? (505 Games)
03 (01) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami)
04 (02) [NDS] Cooking Mama 2 (505 Games)
05 (__) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
06 (06) [NDS] Imagine Babies (Ubisoft)
07 (05) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
08 (__) [PSP] Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix Europe)
09 (__) [360] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
10 (12) [NDS] Pokemon Diamond (Nintendo)
11 (08) [PS3] Grand Theft Auto IV (Take 2)
12 (__) [NDS] Princess on Ice (505 Games)
13 (__) [PS3] Top Spin 3 (Take 2)
14 (14) [NDS] Imagine Fashion Designer (Ubisoft)
15 (__) [NDS] Pokemon Pearl (Nintendo)


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Norway :
Week 26, 2008 - All Formatshttp://www.vg.no/spill/topp20konsoll.hbs

Consoles
01 (__) Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
02 (__) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
03 (05) UEFA Euro 2008 (Electronic Arts)
04 (__) Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Activision)
05 (01) Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
06 (03) Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock (Activision)
07 (04) Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games)
08 (07) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
09 (08) FIFA 08 (Electronic Arts)
10 (02) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami)
11 (06) Race Driver: Grid (Codemasters)
12 (09) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
13 (__) Beijing 2008 (Sega)
14 (19) Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
15 (14) MX vs. ATV: Untamed (THQ)
16 (__) Singstar Summer Party ()
17 (__) Civilization Revolution (2K Games)
18 (__) Ben 10: Protector of Earth (D3 Publishing)
19 (11) Army of Two (Electronic Arts)
20 (__) Viking: Battle For Asgard (Sega)

Handhelds
01 (01) Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
02 (02) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
03 (03) Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo)
04 (04) Nintendogs (Nintendo)
05 (05) Pokémon Diamond/Pearl (Nintendo)
06 (06) Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
07 (07) Hannah Montana: Music Jam (Disney Interactive)
08 (09) High School Musical 2: Work This Out (Disney Interactive)
09 (10) Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
10 (__) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo)


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Finland :

No Charts this week

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Sweden :


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Germany :
Week 27, 2008

01 (01) [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
02 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
03 (06) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
04 (__) [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (Nintendo)
05 (__) [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (Nintendo)
06 (07) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima's Brain-Training (Nintendo)
07 (04) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami)
08 (__) [NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo)
09 (10) [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
10 (__) [PS3] BUZZ! Quiz TV (SCEE)


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Australia :
Week 27, 2008

01 (__) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
02 (01) [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
03 (03) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
04 (02) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
05 (__) [NDS] High School Musical: Makin' the Cut (Disney Interactive Studios)
06 (__) [PS2] SingStar Party Hits bundle (Sony)
07 (05) [NDS] Guitar Hero: On Tour bundle (Activision)
08 (__) [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
09 (__) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
10 (__) [WII] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)

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New Zealand :


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Week 28 Releases for Consoles (July 7th ~ July 12th) :

Slow, slow week. Summer drought lulz

WII
*Summer Athletics

360
*none

PS3
*none

NDS
*Bakushow
*Doodle Hex
*Johnny Bravo
*Top Spin 3

PSP
*Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2
*Secret Agent Clank

PS2
*Ferrari Challenge
 
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SovanJedi

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If anyone wonders, Big Beach Sports got a fair amount of airtime on UK TV. I've definitely seen it on more than one occasion during Channel 4 advert breaks.
 
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Visualante

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The marketing I saw for Bad Company was PS3 only, so I can't imagine EA is happy with the PS3 version's performance.
 
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milanbaros

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Just as an idea, would anybody be interested in a PAL chart that gave weight to market size e.g. UK 10, France 7, New Zealand 1, or would it just be too inaccurate to be representative?
 
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slaughterking

Member
It’s a stalemate at the top of the All Formats Chart as ‘Super Smash Bros: Brawl’ fends off competition from ‘Battlefield: Bad Company’ at No2 and ‘Lego Indiana Jones’ at No3 – all non-movers this week.


Sales of Nintendo’s critically acclaimed brawler drop 48% in its second week, while sales of EA’s latest in the Battlefield franchise and LucasArts’ ‘Lego Indiana Jones’ both fall by 31%. Indiana Jones has to watch his back as several sports games are breathing down his neck: ‘Big Beach Sports’ from THQ climbs one place to No4, only 350 sales short of catching the LucasArts title. Sega celebrate two All Formats Top 10 Olympics games with ‘Beijing 2008’ sprinting from No9 to No5 and ‘Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games’ edging back into the Top 10, up from No11 to No8, while Take 2’s ‘Top Spin 3’ serves up a 2 place jump from No8 to No6.

Nintendo have the only format-exclusive games to chart in the All Formats Top 10 with ‘Wii Fit’ getting more regular Top 10 exercise despite dropping 3 places from No4 to No7, while ‘Wii Play’ bounces back into the Top 10, up from No12 to No9. Vivendi capture the highest chart position for a film tie-in, ‘The Bourne Conspiracy’ up from No15 to No10, ahead of Activision’s ‘Kung Fu Panada’, this week’s highest climber, up from No40 to No16. ‘Mario Kart Wii’ and ‘Metal Gear Solid 4’ both fall out of the All Formats Top 10, down from No7 to No14 for Mario and No6 to No15 for MGS4. There is a re-entry for ‘Unreal Tournament III’ at No18 thanks to the release of the Xbox 360 version, while the highest new entry is Sony’s ‘Buzz! Quiz TV’ at No22, the first Buzz! game for PS3, ahead of new DS Pokemon duo ‘Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time’ at No30 and ‘Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness’ at No35.
 
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Big Beach Sports looks so bad, it's really painful to see it so high up there.

Also what's with Bejing's rise? Ad campaign, retailer promotion, something about the Olympics in the news I missed?

Wimbledon didn't do a whole lot for Top Spin, but maybe we'll see the titles rise next week as well.

UT3 and Buzz both have low entries, though the latter has at least the chance to sell over a longer period of time.

milanbaros said:
Just as an idea, would anybody be interested in a PAL chart that gave weight to market size e.g. UK 10, France 7, New Zealand 1, or would it just be too inaccurate to be representative?
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We had that for a while I think. I don't see any use in it, because it's not representative (like with the weighted software chart, although a PAL chart would probably be even less representative).
 
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BenjaminBirdie

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milanbaros said:
Just as an idea, would anybody be interested in a PAL chart that gave weight to market size e.g. UK 10, France 7, New Zealand 1, or would it just be too inaccurate to be representative?
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It sounds on par with that chart that weights listings and places of software by console.

I say go for it! It'll be interesting one way or another.
 
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szaromir

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Just realised Call of Duty 4 fell off Top 40 last week (it's still No 19 on all platforms - all prices chart). The game has had a good run anyway.
 
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Phife Dawg

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Saiyar said:
I don know if this is thread worthy so I will post it here

GFk have acquired Chart-Track. They now own 55% of it. Maybe we will see some sort of unified EU chart from them in the near future.
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GfK media control does the german charts, seeing the little info we get from these I hope they don't cut away any of the info Chart Track gives away.
 
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Neomoto

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Smash Bros is putting up a fight :) Pretty good week all around

Btw, here's the breakdown for the UK chart

360 - 7
PS3 - 7
Wii - 12 (5 in the top 10)
DS - 12
 
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Cipherr

Member
szaromir said:
Just realised Call of Duty 4 fell off Top 40 last week (it's still No 19 on all platforms - all prices chart). The game has had a good run anyway.
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Good run is probably the understatement of the year. CoD4 did phenomenal.
 
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milanbaros

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domlolz said:
Nintendo of Europe are spending more money on advertising than they are on resources for releasing games
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I would love to see NoE marketing expenditure now compared to 5 years ago. I live in the UK and I wouldn't be surprised if it had gone up 10 fold.
 
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milanbaros said:
I would love to see NoE marketing expenditure now compared to 5 years ago. I live in the UK and I wouldn't be surprised if it had gone up 10 fold.
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It's been a huge turnaround and a key reason for Nintendo's resurgence in what used to be their weakest market.

As for the charts, Smash held up well, Metal Gear is hanging in there, Mario and Sonic refuses to die, Sonic and the Secret Rings is still on the charts despite releasing one a half years ago, and its interesting to note that Top Spin 3 had a mediocre debut on Wii, but is now pulling ahead of the other versions on the charts.
 
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BishopLamont

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_Alkaline_ said:
It's been a huge turnaround and a key reason for Nintendo's resurgence in what used to be their weakest market.

As for the charts, Smash held up well, Metal Gear is hanging in there, Mario and Sonic refuses to die, Sonic and the Secret Rings is still on the charts despite releasing one a half years ago, and its interesting to note that Top Spin 3 had a mediocre debut on Wii, but is now pulling ahead of the other versions on the charts.
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Top Spin 3's performance on the Wii is hardly surprising, we've seen the small first week and big second week boost from many games before.
 
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Phife Dawg

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_Alkaline_ said:
It's been a huge turnaround and a key reason for Nintendo's resurgence in what used to be their weakest market.

As for the charts, Smash held up well, Metal Gear is hanging in there, Mario and Sonic refuses to die, Sonic and the Secret Rings is still on the charts despite releasing one a half years ago, and its interesting to note that Top Spin 3 had a mediocre debut on Wii, but is now pulling ahead of the other versions on the charts.
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SatSR is a budget title and has been for a very long time now. SST's price was also slashed but it didn't help the title a whole lot - in typical Sega fashion they half-assed the version which had the only potential to sell.
 
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_Alkaline_

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Phife Dawg said:
SatSR is a budget title and has been for a very long time now. SST's price was also slashed but it didn't help the title a whole lot - in typical Sega fashion they half-assed the version which had the only potential to sell.
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True but even then Sonic's performance is still pretty amazing. Pity SEGA only rewarded it with a multiplatform title.

As for Superstars Tennis, it should have performed better (and would have if the game didn't suck so much) but the sales of the Wii version did blow away all other versions.
 
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iidesuyo

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The number of Nintendo commercials in Germany is insane. Smash Bros., Brain Training, Cooking Guide, WiiSports, it's all there. Compared to that the efforts of Sony and Microsoft seem rather lackluster. I only also saw FFVII Crisis Core and Rockband commercials recently.
 
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milanbaros

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iidesuyo said:
The number of Nintendo commercials in Germany is insane. Smash Bros., Brain Training, Cooking Guide, WiiSports, it's all there. Compared to that the efforts of Sony and Microsoft seem rather lackluster. I only also saw FFVII Crisis Core and Rockband commercials recently.
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I remember seeing quite a few N64 adverts and hardly any GC and now a tonne of Wii and DS adverts.

Do you think NoE just didn't want to throw good money after bad with the gc?

The problem is a bit catch 22 really.

If your console sales are only 1m its difficult to justify advertising a game on national tv because so few owners will see it. Its a different story when your console is successful like the PS2 or Wii and this only helps the sales further.

It could've been a case of NoE going into hibernation mode.
 
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Phife Dawg

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_Alkaline_ said:
True but even then Sonic's performance is still pretty amazing. Pity SEGA only rewarded it with a multiplatform title.

As for Superstars Tennis, it should have performed better (and would have if the game didn't suck so much) but the sales of the Wii version did blow away all other versions.
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It's a good performance, no doubt. But it vanished after a while and only came back after being price-slashed, of course it has stayed on the charts ever since.

Yeah, that's why I said it was the only version with any sales potential.

iidesuyo said:
The number of Nintendo commercials in Germany is insane. Smash Bros., Brain Training, Cooking Guide, WiiSports, it's all there. Compared to that the efforts of Sony and Microsoft seem rather lackluster. I only also saw FFVII Crisis Core and Rockband commercials recently.
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Rockband was all over the place. I've seen quite a few SSBB ads but not to the extent of Rockband. The only others I saw were BT ads. Haven't seen the WiiSports ad in quite a while. Haven't seen the Cooking Navi or Crisis Core ad yet. I have seen a lot of PSP ads though, stressing the new budget software line at 19,95 € iirc.

Biggest ad campaign for a single game was GTA4 - that was just insane. Uncharted was also insane but not to GTA4's extent. Nintendo in general does a whole lot more marketing than in the GC days (which basically boiled down to Mario Strikers with Lahm) though.

MS did a lot of marketing for their new price-point (it was pretty lame: 199 reasons to own a 360 or something like that - hinting at 199 €) but I haven't seen all that much recently, same goes for PS3. I expected to see some GT:p or MGS ads but to no avail.
 
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