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[Private Hoffman]

Hmmm, practically every game above LBP on the chart came out before LBP, some long before. I'm trying to figure out why you would have settled on picking out LBP to mention. Maybe you can help me out here.

Oh, I can help you.

LBP was called LittleBigBomba. Wasn't expected to have any legs. And was claimed to be a failure and a niche title.

Most Nintendo titles, Call of Duty sequels, or FIFA iterations are expected to sell well. LittleBigPlanet is a new IP on a system that doesn't cater towards the crowd that you would expect to enjoy a title like LittleBigPlanet.

Does that help?

 

[nli10]

AFAIK chart track doesn't count official bundles sales for games. I think someone mentioned that once. nli10 maybe ?

Could have been me - I did used to know how it worked many years ago but evidence sugests it's been updated.


Historically it has been:

If it's inside the box and doesn't have a separate bar code to scan (WiiSports is a classic example) then it won't count towards the chart.

If it's separate to the box and is scanned as a separate item but in the bundle (like the early PS3 one where Motorstorm was taped to the box) then it counts as a game sale and goes into the chart.


Trouble is things like the recent DS game bundles which are both available in the box or as an up-sell have confused matters. Also the KFP+LegoIndy+Cotroller for £20 bundle which has become the X360s answer to WiiPlay has a single barcode but seems to have had chart impact.

I think that the multipack games now count individually for the chart (even though both disks come in the same DVD case). That the barcodes for the DS packs and PS3 packs are unique per offer and will double count (once for console and once for game) which explains the rise of those bundled DS titles. I suspect that there is a rule that says the game has to be available separately to count excluding Demo disks and WiiSports and other products of a technically Zero value.

Chances are there's a Chart Track person who could tell you more, they used to be quite receptive to e-mails but i'll bet there are one or two lurking here.



Either way, LBP was well advertised, well positioned and didn't really sell like a AAA title in it's first weeks. Turns out word of mouth isn't a Nintendo owned property just yet and little sack-cloth legs are quite effective at running up the charts, which over the festive period added up to quite a chunk of sales. LBP was a new IP, and is now a proven hit.

I still say that if they'd included a little Sack-boy or girl they'd be at a million by now, but that's just me longing for a little orange sack-boy of my own. I blame Stephen Fry...

 

[Raist]

Could have been me - I did used to know how it worked many years ago but evidence sugests it's been updated.

I see Thanks for the clarification.

Also, haven't seen the January ELSPA sales awards posted. Am I blind ?


Aaaaaaaaand. Guess what bitches ? WEIGHTED CHARTS ARE BACK.

Been a while since I've updated them.

2007

2008

2009 (looks like shit, but whatever)

 

[test_account]

awesome read... thanks.

Are you being sincere/do you mean it? I dont mean any offence or anything when i ask about this, i just want to ask to be sure that what i wrote wasnt understood as anything negative towards LBP, because i think that the LBP preformance is good!

 

[dabra]

Germany:
Week 05, 2009

01 (03) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (01) [NDS] More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
03 (02) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
04 (04) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
05 (05) [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
06 (07) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
07 (06) [NDS] THINK - Logiktrainer: Think Again (dtp Entertainment AG)
08 (__) [PS2] Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos)
09 (10) [WII] Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City (Nintendo)
10 (09) [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo)

Denmark:
Week 5, 2009 - Entertainment Software (All Prices)
01 (01) Wii Play (Nintendo)
02 (02) Fifa 09 (Electronic Arts)
03 (03) Sports Island (Pan Vision)
04 (12) Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Activision Blizzard)
05 (06) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
06 (09) World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of Lich King (Activision Blizzard)
07 (05) Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)
08 (08) Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
09 (07) Counter-strike: Source (Electronic Arts)
10 (04) Lego Batman: The Videogame (Pan Vision)
11 (18) Fallout 3 (Ubisoft)
12 (14) Grand Theft Auto Iv (K.e. Media)
13 (17) The Lord Of The Rings: Conquest (Electronic Arts)
14 (16) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (K.e. Media)
15 (10) Singstar Abba (Nordisk Film)
16 (__) Saints Row 2 (Thq)
17 (__) Motorstorm: Pacific Rift (Nordisk Film)
18 (__) Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft)
19 (15) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
20 (__) Buzz! Junior: Monster Rumble (Nordisk Film)

 

[Kenka]

Germany:
Week 05, 2009

01 (03) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (01) [NDS] More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
03 (02) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
04 (04) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
05 (05) [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
06 (07) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
07 (06) [NDS] THINK - Logiktrainer: Think Again (dtp Entertainment AG)
08 (__) [PS2] Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos)
09 (10) [WII] Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City (Nintendo)
10 (09) [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo)

Twins in action. Again.

 

[lowlylowlycook]

Twins in action. Again.

Germany does HD gaming right. PC baby!

 

[dabra]

Australia:
Week 05, 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (02) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
03 (06) [NDS] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
04 (04) [WII] Guitar Hero: World Tour Super (Activision Blizzard)
05 (__) [WII] Top Spin 3 (Take-Two Interactive)
06 (07) [360] Guitar Hero: World Tour Super (Activision Blizzard)
07 (__) [WII] Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Nintendo)
08 (__) [PS2] Singstar Abba (Sony)
09 (05) [360] Skate 2 (Electronic Arts)
10 (10) [NDS] More Brain Training (Nintendo)

Sweden :
Week 05, 2009

01 (03) [PC] World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
02 (01) [360] Skate 2
03 (12) [PC] World of Warcraft
04 (10) [PS2] Singstar Abba
05 (20) [PC] World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
06 (14) [PC] Counter-Strike 1: Anthology
07 (08) [PS2] Guitar Hero: World Tour
08 (09) [PS2] Singstar Svenska hits Schlager
09 (05) [PS3] Skate 2
10 (11) [360] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
11 (18) [360] Guitar Hero: World Tour
12 (__) [PS3] Guitar Hero: World Tour
13 (__) [PC] World of Warcraft Battlechest
14 (__) [PC] Spore
15 (16) [Wii] Wii Play
16 (__) [Wii] Guitar Hero: World Tour
17 (__) [360] Gears of War 2
18 (__) [Wii] Mario Kart Wii
19 (17) [PS3] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
20 (__) [PC] The Sims 2 Livet i lägenhet

January 2009

01 (__) [Wii] Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock
02 (__) [PS3] Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock
03 (05) [PC] World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
04 (01) [PS2] Singstar Abba
05 (03) [PS2] Guitar Hero: World Tour
06 (10) [PS2] Singstar Svenska hits Schlager
07 (__) [360] Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock
08 (__) [PC] World of Warcraft
09 (06) [360] Guitar Hero: World Tour
10 (__) [360] NHL 09
11 (__) [360] Gears of War 2
12 (11) [360] FIFA 09
13 (07) [Wii] Guitar Hero: World Tour
14 (__) [PS3] FIFA 09
15 (15) [PS3] Guitar Hero: World Tour
16 (__) [PC] Spore
17 (__) [360] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
18 (12) [Wii] Wii Play
19 (__) [360] Mirror's Edge
20 (__) [360] Skate 2

 

[BishopLamont]

New Zealand:
Week 05, 2009

01 (__) [PS2] Singstar ABBA (Electronic Arts)
02 (01) [360] Skate 2 (Electronic Arts)
03 (03) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
04 (05) [PS3] Skate 2 (Electronic Arts)
05 (06) [PC] World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Activision Blizzard)
06 (__) [PC] The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts)
07 (04) [PS2] Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 (THQ)
08 (__) [360] Gears of War 2 (Microsoft)
09 (02) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
10 (08) [PS2] Need for Speed Undercover (Electronic Arts)

 

[Dash Kappei]

It shows that Shaun White Wii's back in stock

Very nice game.

 

[Verve]

Norway:
Week 05, 2009 - All Formatshttp://www.vg.no/spill/topp20konsoll.hbs?liste=2&uke=7&aar=2009

Consoles
01 (01) Skate 2 (Electronic Arts)
02 (02) Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision)
03 (05) Singstar Abba (Sony)
04 (03) FIFA 09 (Electronic Arts)
05 (06) Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
06 (04) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
07 (08) Wii Fit (Nintendo)
08 (07) Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Electronic Arts)
09 (09) Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft)
10 (10) Lego Batman: The Video Game (Warner Brothers Interactive)
11 (12) Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
12 (__) Gears of War 2 (Microsoft)
13 (__) Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
14 (13) Midnight Club: Los Angeles (Rockstar Games)
15 (__) Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games)
16 (17) Sonic Unleashed (Sega)
17 (__) Lips (Microsoft)
18 (15) Quantum of Solace: The Game (Activision)
19 (18) Shaun White Snowboarding (Ubisoft)
20 (16) Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
Handheld
01 (01) Littlest Pet Shop (DS) (Electronic Arts)
02 (02) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
03 (09) FIFA 09 (Electronic Arts)
04 (03) Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
05 (__) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo)
06 (08) Lego Batman: The Video Game (Warner Brothers Interactive)
07 (07) Need For Speed: Undercover (Electronic Arts)
08 (04) Nintendogs (Nintendo)
09 (__) Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams (Empire Interactive)
10 (10) Mario Party DS (Nintendo)
PC
01 (01) World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard)
02 (02) Football Manager 2009 (Sega)
03 (09) Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft)
04 (10) Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)
05 (06) The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts)
06 (__) The Sims 2: Byliv (Electronic Arts)
07 (__) Left 4 Dead (Valve)
08 (07) Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games)
09 (04) Spore (Electronic Arts)
10 (__) Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Electronic Arts)


sorry for not doing it the last weeks, had completely forgotten...

Edit: Wut? Skate 2 is 16+?

 

[Gessle]

Sales numbers for the Spanish Market in 2008, according to GfK (source):

Marketshare in 2008:
Consoles: Wii: 48%, PS3: 26%, X360: 15%, PS2: 11%
Portables: NDS: 70%, PSP: 30%

Total consoles sold in 2008: 1.4 million
- Wii: 672,000
- PS3: 364,000 (830,000 LTD)
- X360: 210,000 (500,000 LTD)
- PS2: 154,000 (5m LTD)

Total Handhelds sold in 2008: 1.77 million
- NDS: 1,239,000
- PSP: 531,000

Total number of console games sold in 2008: 16.8 million
- Sony: 50% (8.4 million games, 4m of which were PS2 games)
- Nintendo: 45% ( 7.56 million games sold for NDS and Wii)
- Microsoft: 5% (840,000 games sold for X360)

 

[test_account]

Edit: Wut? Skate 2 is 16+?

Pegi.info only list that the game contain violence, are there really any violence in Skate 2? I guess maybe it is can have something to do with that meat mode (or what is called) where the goal is to hurt yourself by using your skateboard and jump of a ledge or something.

Sales numbers for the Spanish Market in 2008, according to GfK (source):

(Insert console sales info about the spanish gaming market here)

This is some interesting info, thanks for posting this!

EDIT: By the way, does the marketshare account for 2008 only, or is this the marketshare in total when the year 2008 were over?

 

[Jokeropia]

EDIT: By the way, does the marketshare account for 2008 only, or is this the marketshare in total when the year 2008 were over?

It's 2008 only, as you can see by calculating the marketshare from the "Total consoles sold in 2008" numbers.

 

[BishopLamont]

Sales numbers for the Spanish Market in 2008, according to GfK (source):

Marketshare in 2008:
Consoles: Wii: 48%, PS3: 26%, X360: 15%, PS2: 11%
Portables: NDS: 70%, PSP: 30%

Total consoles sold in 2008: 1.4 million
- Wii: 672,000
- PS3: 364,000 (830,000 LTD)
- X360: 210,000 (500,000 LTD)
- PS2: 154,000 (5m LTD)

Total Handhelds sold in 2008: 1.77 million
- NDS: 1,239,000
- PSP: 531,000

Total number of console games sold in 2008: 16.8 million
- Sony: 50% (8.4 million games, 4m of which were PS2 games)
- Nintendo: 45% ( 7.56 million games sold for NDS and Wii)
- Microsoft: 5% (840,000 games sold for X360)

Wow PS2 software is still going strong, but Nintendo wins hardware hands down.

NDS hardware = PS2/PS3/PSP/360.

 

[dabra]

Italy :
Week 04, 2009

01 Wii Fit WII
02 PES 2009 PS2
03 Wii Play WII
04 Mario Kart WII
05 PES 2009 PS3
06 Brain Training DS
07 Need For Speed Undercover PS3
08 Call Of Duty World At War PS3
09 FIFA 09 PS2
10 FIFA 09 PS3
11 New Super Mario Bros. DS
12 Football And Street Collection PS2
13 PES 2009 360
14 FIFA 09 360
15 GTA San Andreas Platinum PS2

France:
Week 04, 2009

01 (01) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (03) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
03 (02) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
04 (__) [NDS] Professor Layton And The Curious Village (Nintendo)
05 (05) [WII] Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Ubisoft)
06 (04) [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
07 (06) [PS3] Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision Blizzard)
08 (__) [360] Skate 2 (Electronic Arts)
09 (08) [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
10 (__) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

 

[El-Suave]

SCE Germany announced today that they have sold one million PS3's in Germany. According to them, they have reached that goal two months ahead of schedule.

http://www.consolewars.de/news/23794/eine_mio_ps3_in_deutschland_verkauft/

 

[CurlySaysX]

MotorstormC!! Denmark :bow

 

[deepbrown]

SCE Germany announced today that they have sold one million PS3's in Germany. According to them, they have reached that goal two months ahead of schedule.

http://www.consolewars.de/news/23794/eine_mio_ps3_in_deutschland_verkauft/

Where are the other consoles at LTD? And when did they hit 1 million?

 

[Sleeker]

I'm a little surprised that COD: WAW is selling so much and has already snuffed out COD4 on the LIVE charts.

The MP levels are so much darker and messier than COD4, and those dogs are freaking annoying.

 

[CubeRevolution]

Where are the other consoles at LTD? And when did they hit 1 million?

Wii: 2,0 million (1,2 Mio 2008)

DS: 5,2 million

 

[deepbrown]

Wii: 2,0 million (1,2 Mio 2008)

DS: 5,2 million

360?

 

[Parl]

Weighted-charts

Fairly consistent weightings so far in 2009. I see Wii has increased nearly up to the level it was during the summer when other platforms suffered long periods without new software, and Wii hasn't consistently enjoyed this level of relative strength since the the weeks before 360/PS3/etc software started being released consistently again (starting with a mega week of two big releases the week following the end of the holidays, as shown on the graph).

The current trends are hardly surprising for anybody following the charts. As Wii titles have longer legs than 360 and PS3 titles, Wii does better on these weighted charts when 360 and PS3 have few new (big) games come out, or if Wii has some new big games come out (or both combined, like the middle of last year with the mega combo of Wii Fit and Mario Kart at a time of weakness for new PS360 releases).

All obvious stuff however.

 

[CubeRevolution]

360?

Sorry, no.

 

[8-Bit Soul]

Italy :
Week 04, 2009

01 Wii Fit WII
02 PES 2009 PS2
03 Wii Play WII
04 Mario Kart WII
05 PES 2009 PS3
06 Brain Training DS
07 Need For Speed Undercover PS3
08 Call Of Duty World At War PS3
09 FIFA 09 PS2
10 FIFA 09 PS3
11 New Super Mario Bros. DS
12 Football And Street Collection PS2
13 PES 2009 360
14 FIFA 09 360
15 GTA San Andreas Platinum PS2

hey Dabra, could You please tell me where You found this chart? thank You.

 

[BishopLamont]

hey Dabra, could You please tell me where You found this chart? thank You.

http://www.forumeye.it/invision/index.php?showtopic=472024&view=findpost&p=9164758

dabra you need to edit the full France chart into the OP.

 

[test_account]

New UK Top 40 numbers are up now
http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110032

Abit earlier than what they use to be up, right? Arent they usually up around 6pm - 7pm (GMT +1 timezone)? Or i think the numbers were up abit earlier last week, or maybe it was about 2 weeks ago, as well if i am not mistaken.


EDIT: I forgot to post the weekly Chart Track sales "news" (or what i shall call it).

09/Feb/2009

Nintendo are showing no signs of over-exertion, as their fitness drive moves into a fourth consecutive week at the top of the All Formats Chart. Sales of ‘Wii Fit’ are only down 2% on last week – the lowest sales decline of any All Formats Top 10 game this week.

‘FIFA 09’ (-12%) shimmies up one place to No2, knocking Activision-Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ down to No3 (-20%) – its lowest All Formats Chart position since its launch 13 weeks ago. Every game in the All Formats Top 10 loses sales and Nintendo’s ‘Mystery Case Files: Millionheir’ is the only Top 40 new release, debuting at No4, one place ahead of similar title ‘Professor Layton’ (-14%). Nintendo manage 5 games in the All Formats Top 10 with familiar favourites ‘Mario Kart Wii’ (-13%) and ‘Wii Play’ (-16%) both non-movers at No’s 6 and 7 respectively. This week last year the software market was up and there were 3 new games in the All Formats Top 10 and a new No1 with Capcom’s ‘Devil May Cry 4’. In 2009 the software market has not yet witnessed its first weekly sales increase, while Nintendo and Wii Fit’s dominance at the top in 2009 is in stark contrast to the 5 different games that were All Formats No1’s during the first six weeks of last year.

EA’s ‘Need for Speed: Undercover’ (-28%) may have dropped out of the Top 10, from No10 to No13, but the American publisher still has two Top 10 games despite a 37% drop in sales for ‘Skate 2’ – down from No5 to No8. Despite falling sales, Sega’s ‘Mario & Sonic’ (-5%) and Activision-Blizzard’s ‘Guitar Hero: World Tour’ (-18%) climb back into the Top 10, both up 3 places to No’s 9 and 10 respectively. A retailer price promotion on the Xbox 360 version of ‘Left 4 Dead’ (+32%) sees it climb 14 places to No15, while another EA title, ‘SimAnimals’ (+90%) enters the Top 40 for the first time at No22, in its second week of release.

It's 2008 only, as you can see by calculating the marketshare from the "Total consoles sold in 2008" numbers.

Ah ok, cool! Thanks for the info!

I am sorry for the late reply here by the way :\ I didnt check this PAL Charts thread in some days, so i didnt see you reply before now.

 

[APZonerunner]

No Chrono Trigger, then. Another Square Enix DS RPG bomba in the EU.

 

[Dascu]

No Chrono Trigger, then. Another Square Enix DS RPG bomba in the EU.

Number 10 on the DS chart. Decent I guess.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Holy Shit @Layton Legs + Mystery Case Files Performance.

 

[slaughterking]

If Laytons legs continue to be this strong, we may not see the sequels that early after all. D:

 

[DMeisterJ]

LBP stays in the top 20 and Resistance 2 rises to the top 20. Guess R2 didn't do that horrible after all.

 

[nli10]

Holy Shit @Layton Legs + Mystery Case Files Performance.

Layton actually had reasonable stock, as does Wii Fit.

MCF is basically the Where's Wally (or Waldo if you are American) books in game format and is TV advertised to seem similar to Layton. Hopefully WOM will kill this off and Layton can keep going. Expect MCF to do well next week though too.

There is no reason to rush release layton 2, although I do hope we get it for next Xmas.


House of the Dead Overkill next week!

(Chrono Trigger)Number 10 on the DS chart. Decent I guess.

Works out to just outside the top 40. Better than average for Square games on the DS - must have outsold TWEWY.

I'm tempted to get this for a trip, but as I'm not a massive fan of JRPG fear it might bore me.

 

[jesusraz]

42 All-Time Classics made it to No.35 in the Individual Formats (Units) Top 40, with it also placing 7th in the DS Top 40. So Chrono Trigger certainly wasn't too far off the pace, and could rise next week. It's a stronger start than HoM, FFF: CT, FFTA2, FFCC: RoF, DQM: J and TWEWY. Only FFIV and FFXII: RW have started stronger recently.

By the way, did we already know this:

- 10 CHRONO TRIGGER TOSE SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

I didn't realise TOSE was behind this fantastic port-with-extras!

EDIT: Oh, and Pikmin's started quite a bit lower than I expected (No.17, Wii Full Price Top 40). Has it been advertised much on TV? I'm in the UK, but don't really watch much telly nowadays...but I did see banners up in GameStation in Manchester this lunchtime, along with lots of promotional stuff in GS and GAME for Mystery Case Files.

 

[frankie_baby]

42 All-Time Classics made it to No.35 in the Individual Formats (Units) Top 40, with it also placing 7th in the DS Top 40. So Chrono Trigger certainly wasn't too far off the pace, and could rise next week. It's a stronger start than HoM, FFF: CT, FFTA2, FFCC: RoF, DQM: J and TWEWY. Only FFIV and FFXII: RW have started stronger recently.

By the way, did we already know this:


I didn't realise TOSE was behind this fantastic port-with-extras!

EDIT: Oh, and Pikmin's started quite a bit lower than I expected (No.17, Wii Full Price Top 40). Has it been advertised much on TV? I'm in the UK, but don't really watch much telly nowadays...but I did see banners up in GameStation in Manchester this lunchtime, along with lots of promotional stuff in GS and GAME for Mystery Case Files.

There's been quite a lot of ads for pikmin though i'd expect it to follow the usual nintendo pattern of rising in the second week though its never gonna be a chart topper it stands a good chance of selling decently in the long run

 

[test_account]

LBP stays in the top 20 and Resistance 2 rises to the top 20. Guess R2 didn't do that horrible after all.

Ye, i think that Resistance 2 seems to be selling fine Resistance 2 has so far sold at least 200k copies in the UK, which i think seems to be a good sales preformance, at least in my opinion

EDIT: I added some text.

 

[jesusraz]

There's been quite a lot of ads for pikmin though i'd expect it to follow the usual nintendo pattern of rising in the second week though its never gonna be a chart topper it stands a good chance of selling decently in the long run

Then chances are it'll bounce up next week then, as per the usual pattern. Thanks for the info Pikmin definitely deserves to shoot up the charts...