‘Wii Fit’ continues its successful run with a No1 for the first week of the Easter break and now becomes Nintendo’s longest serving All Formats No1, surpassing ‘Pokemon Yellow’, with a total of 11 weeks at the top.

The only new entry in the Top 40 All Formats Chart comes in at No2 with EA’s ‘The Godfather II’. ‘Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games’ races up the chart from No9 to No3. Capcom’s ‘Resident Evil 5’ drops 2 places to No4 and EA’s ‘FIFA also drops 2 places to No5. Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ shuffles down a place to No6. Nintendo’s second of four Top 10 titles ‘Professor Layton and the Curious Village’ is also a non-mover at No7, followed by ‘Wii Play’ at No8 and ‘Mario Kart Wii’ at No9. Capcom’s ‘Streetfighter IV’ rounds off the Top 10 after dropping 4 places.

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Visualante said:

lol CoD4 > CoD5, amazing.

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DMeisterJ said:

Better late than ever, eh?

Anyhoo, goooo KZ2, stabilize.

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GCX said:

What's with the big Mario & Sonic bump?

I wonder if even the release of the sequel will make it stop selling.

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GCX said:

What's with the big Mario & Sonic bump?

I wonder if even the release of the sequel will make it stop selling.

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GCX said:

I wonder if even the release of the sequel will make it stop selling.

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JonnyBrad said:

lol no.

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Die Squirrel Die said:

Are there still no ELSPA sales awards for March?

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Mohonky said:

Not really. Call of Duty 4 is amazing, Call of Duty 5 is just kind of meh. I don't think it's a Treyarch thing, I actually thought Call of Duty 3 was great while most people trashed it, it's just WWII games are just getting meh, especially after playing Modern Warfare.

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GfK-ChartTrack: ‘We want digital chart this year’

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gofreak said:

Since LBP discounting has often been discussed in these threads, an article in the new MCV might be of interest.

http://issuu.com/intentmedia/docs/mcv_issue533

It's on page 4, talks about how the price has come down at some retailers to as little as £11-£12 now. But it seems to be something Sony is actively encouraging/sanctioning. Seems they want to do whatever possible to get the game into more user's hands.

Which makes me wonder..are things like healthy DLC revenue allowing for cheaper upfront prices on games? I'm guessing Sony are happy to heavily discount games like LBP because of an anticipated growth in DLC revenue off the back of the larger userbase (with LBP possibly being one of their strongest DLC games, I'm guessing). That'd be a nice precedent, although it could encourage people to delay initial purchases of games with stronger DLC revenue potential, in anticipation of discounting.

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bcn-ron said:

They should proper sentences first.

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Dabanton said:

I was in Gamestation earlier and was talking to one of the guys behind the counter he said that Wii Fit is their most asked for game, He said his lost count of how many people ask for it in a day. :lol

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Nintendo stays fit at No1

Nintendo are looking healthy at the top of the All Formats Chart as ‘Wii Fit’ stays at No1 for a third consecutive week, totalling 12 weeks at No1 in all (8 of which have come in 2009).

After Easter, sales of ‘Wii Fit’ are down by 30%, while ‘The Godfather II’ remains at No2, sales falling by 32%. EA will have to wait in the wings for another week in order to become the Don of the games charts, but old favourite ‘FIFA 09’ (-17%) ensures a strong presence at the top end of the Chart for the big American publisher, up 2 places to No3. The rest of the All Formats Top 10 shuffle places, ‘Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games’ (-35%) and ‘Resident Evil 5’ (-30%) are both down one place to No’s 4 and 5 respectively. Nintendo’s 3 other Top 10 titles all perform relatively well, each with only small drops in sales – ‘Professor Layton’ (-9%) is up one place to No6, ‘Mario Kart Wii’ (-1%) up 2 places to No7 and ‘Wii Play’ (-13%) is a non-mover at No8. Activision Blizzard still have a foothold in the Top 10 despite ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ (-23%) slipping from No6 to No9. With no new releases of any note out this week it gives consistent chart performer ‘Carnival: Funfair Games’ (-12%) the opportunity to sneak back into the Top 10, up from No16 to No10.

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bttb said:

UK Charts: Q1 2009
Source = ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack data
(Dec 28th 2008 - Mar 28th 2009)

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10. Persona 4                                | Square Enix

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u_neek said:

Woo!

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gofreak said:

Which makes me wonder..are things like healthy DLC revenue allowing for cheaper upfront prices on games?

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frankie_baby said:

being number 10 on the ps2 chart is hardly an acheivement these days

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Dabanton said:

I see Indiana Jones has had a big bump must mean a lot of 360's got sold.

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Oxx said:

When was the last time ELSPA released their sales awards?

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test_account said:

Ye, it might be that the Xbox 360 sales went up this week, but it might be that the sales in general went down this week, which means that for example 20th place last week could have sold 10,000 copies, but this week, 20th place could have sold 5,000 copies. This way, games might chart higher, even if they sold just like they did the last week, or even if they sold abit less compared to how they sold in the previous week, if you know what i mean?

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Spiegel said:

Definitely, this is a slow week.

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