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PAL Charts - Week 30, 2008

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nli10

Member
keiji said:
10.Imagine Babysitters (DS)
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All I need now is Imagine AuPairs and Imagine Foreign Exchange Student Teachers and my life is complete. :lol



Ed: I'm 30 and I never owned a NES or SNES (SEGA & 8-bit CPC) and bought a N64 after playing Mario 64 and loving my GameBoy. When I got it most games were £10 including OOT and all the main ones. I got a cube at midnight launch (it was close to the nightclub we were in anyway) and agree that the entire Cube line up beats the Wii so far, but once we get F-Zero Wii and Pikmin Wii the Wii will win by a country mile (still needs a Cubivore and Doshin style odd game section though for completeness).
 
Flakster99

Flakster99

Member
keiji said:
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God bless her for this precious, subtle pose. 8p
 
lo zaffo

lo zaffo

Member
keiji said:
Italy:

1.Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (DS)
2.Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (DS)
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Are Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games better than plain Pokemon games??
I love Chun soft dungeon explorers (i.e. Mystery dungeon Shiren the wonderer) but I fear Pokemon.
 
R

Rocksteady33

Junior Member
lo zaffo said:
Are Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games better than plain Pokemon games??
I love Chun soft dungeon explorers (i.e. Mystery dungeon Shiren the wonderer) but I fear Pokemon.
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If you're a fan of dungeon crawlers, then yeah, you'll probably enjoy the Pokemon ones, however from my perspective they are incredible tedious, boring and too easy compared to the actual Pokemon titles.
 
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Arde5643

Member
lo zaffo said:
Are Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games better than plain Pokemon games??
I love Chun soft dungeon explorers (i.e. Mystery dungeon Shiren the wonderer) but I fear Pokemon.
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If you have Wii, get the Chocobo Dungeon game - it's not as good as Shiren, but it's much much better than PKM.
 
M

milanbaros

Member?
Oh god, Nintendo top 10 in the UK, the revolution is complete?

edit - And 7 on Wii? Well done Nintendo, just wish it had been done slightly differently but I can't not be impressed.
 
C

Captain Smoker

Member
This is Jap... wait. o_O

:lol @ UK


EDIT:

1 1 WII FIT WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
4 2 MARIO KART WII WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
6 3 GUITAR HERO: ON TOUR DS REDOCTANE ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
2 4 WII PLAY WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
3 5 SUPER SMASH BROS: BRAWL WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
8 6 DR KAWASHIMA'S BRAIN TRAINING DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
5 7 BIG BEACH SPORTS WII PLAY THQ THQ
7 8 SPORTS PARTY WII PLAY ZONE UBISOFT
13 9 WALL-E DS PLAY THQ THQ
9 10 CARNIVAL: FUNFAIR GAMES WII 2KPLAY TAKE 2
10 11 METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS PS3 KONAMI KONAMI
12 12 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES WII SEGA SEGA
14 13 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES DS SEGA SEGA
11 14 BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY XB360 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
32 15 MORE BRAIN TRAINING FROM DR KAWASHIMA DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
17 16 COOKING MAMA 2 DS 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
- 17 TOUCHMASTER DS MIDWAY MIDWAY
21 18 POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON: DARKNESS DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
20 19 LEGO INDIANA JONES: ORIGINAL ADVENTURES DS LUCASARTS LUCASARTS
39 20 WALL-E WII PLAY THQ THQ
31 21 MARIO KART DS DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
16 22 BEIJING 2008 XB360 SEGA SEGA
15 23 COOKING GUIDE: CAN'T DECIDE WHAT TO EAT? DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
26 24 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
18 25 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV XB360 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
23 26 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK WII REDOCTANE ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
24 27 POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON: TIME DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
34 28 IMAGINE: BABIES DS GAMES FOR EVERYONE UBISOFT
27 29 KUNG FU PANDA DS ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
35 30 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE PS3 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
22 31 BEIJING 2008 PS3 SEGA SEGA
- 32 WALL-E PS2 PLAY THQ THQ
19 33 UNREAL TOURNAMENT III XB360 MIDWAY MIDWAY
29 34 CRISIS CORE: FINAL FANTASY VII PSP SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
28 35 BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY PS3 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
33 36 LEGO INDIANA JONES: ORIGINAL ADVENTURES WII LUCASARTS LUCASARTS
36 37 GAME PARTY WII MIDWAY MIDWAY
40 38 RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS 2 WII UBISOFT UBISOFT
- 39 BUZZ! QUIZ TV PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
- 40 SIGHT TRAINING DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
 
J

Jammy

Banned
PR

Wii Fit steps back up to No1
28/Jul/2008

This week it’s a return to No1 for ‘Wii Fit’ (+32%) having lost out last week to ‘Lego Indiana Jones’.

THQ’s ‘Wall-E’ climbs 12% over last week but has to settle for No2 for a second successive week. ‘Mario Kart Wii’ climbs 23% to claim No3 and Activision Blizzard climb 7 places to No4 for the first full sales week of DS ‘Guitar Hero: On Tour’ (+46%). ‘Lego Indiana Jones’ drops from No1 to No5 (-15%) and a notable re-entry to the Top 10 is that perennial favourite ‘Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training’ up 7 places to No9 (+14%).
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P

Pancakes R Us

Member
Top ten:

1. Wii Fit
2. Mario Kart Wii
3. Guitar Hero: On Tour
4. Wii Play
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
6. Brain Training
7. Big Beach Sports
8. Sports Party
9. Wall-E (DS version)
10. Carnival: Funfair Games

I think everything on there is a Nintendo system(s) exclusive apart from Wall-E.
 
S

Stop It

Perfectly able to grasp the inherent value of the fishing game.
Wii Fit, it sells what is shipped in the UK, after all this time amazing stuff, and it STILL isn't in stock anywhere near me.

UK = Nintendoland, we haven't been in love with a Ninty console like this....ever, all the more incredible as GC was ditched so quickly here, even the Xbox fared massively better, blue ocean indeed.
 
S

SovanJedi

provides useful feedback
Screw formatting, you can wait until Raist gets back for that:

EDIT: Aw crap! Beaten again. :(

Jammy said:
13 Wii games in the charts! :eek:
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Pfft, the kids aren't on holiday anymore OBVIOUSLY. Hence the drop from last week!
 
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milanbaros

Member?
Stop It said:
UK = Nintendoland, we haven't been in love with a Ninty console like this....ever, all the more incredible as GC was ditched so quickly here, even the Xbox fared massively better, blue ocean indeed.
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That's what makes it more impressive. UK was never Nintendo land even during the NES and SNES, it was SEGA->SONY. If the GC had done as well in the US as in the UK it would've sold 5m.
 
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felipeko

Member
For better reading:

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UK :
TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - INDIVIDUAL FORMATS (UNITS), WEEK ENDING 26 July 2008
01 (01) [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo)
02 (04) [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
03 (06) [NDS] Guitar Hero: On Tour (Activision Blizzard)
04 (02) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
05 (03) [WII] Super Smash Bros: Brawl (Nintendo)
06 (08) [NDS] Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
07 (05) [WII] Big Beach Sports (Thq)
08 (07) [WII] Sports Party (Ubisoft)
09 (13) [NDS] Wall-e (Thq)
10 (09) [WII] Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)
11 (10) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots (Konami)
12 (12) [WII] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
13 (14) [NDS] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
14 (11) [360] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
15 (32) [NDS] More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
16 (17) [NDS] Cooking Mama 2 (505 Games)
17 (__) [NDS] Touchmaster (Midway)
18 (21) [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Darkness (Nintendo)
19 (20) [NDS] Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
20 (39) [WII] Wall-e (Thq)
21 (31) [NDS] Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)
22 (16) [360] Beijing 2008 (Sega)
23 (15) [NDS] Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat? (Nintendo)
24 (26) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
25 (18) [360] Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)
26 (23) [WII] Guitar Hero Iii: Legends Of Rock (Activision Blizzard)
27 (24) [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Time (Nintendo)
28 (34) [NDS] Imagine: Babies (Ubisoft)
29 (27) [NDS] Kung Fu Panda (Activision Blizzard)
30 (35) [PS3] Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
31 (22) [PS3] Beijing 2008 (Sega)
32 (__) [PS2] Wall-e (Thq)
33 (19) [360] Unreal Tournament Iii (Midway)
34 (29) [PSP] Crisis Core: Final Fantasy Vii (Square Enix Europe)
35 (28) [PS3] Battlefield: Bad Company (Electronic Arts)
36 (33) [WII] Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts)
37 (36) [WII] Game Party (Midway)
38 (40) [WII] Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Ubisoft)
39 (__) [PS3] Buzz! Quiz Tv (Sony Computer Ent.)
40 (__) [NDS] Sight Training (Nintendo)
DS = 16
Wii = 13
PS3 = 5
X360 = 4
PSP = 1
PS2 = 1
 
B

brain_stew

Member
Honestly Nintendo don't even need many/any holiday big hitters. Smash, Mario Kart, Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario and Sonic have such unstoppable legs they'll be right up there for most of the year. They're just monster titles, they keep on going even after big debuts, compare that to GTA4 whch collapsed after just a few weeks.

Think Mario and Sonic Wii is pretty much a lock for the highest selling UK game of all time now, that thing just keeps on trucking, and the God damn olympics still aren't here.
 
C

CrunchinJelly

formerly cjelly
Wow, Nintendo are really cleaning up.

Sony and Microsoft are so fucking dumb for handing over this summer to Nintendo on a silver platter. There is no reason to think that this momentum will not carry over until Autumn and Winter, regardless of release schedules.

PS3 and 360 owners buy new games, DS and Wii owners buy catalogue games. This is why the Wii and DS will continue to do gangbusters, even in quiet months.
 
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doicare

Member
If only i knew a bookies that took bets on neogaf, i would have put down £1000 that several people would make jokes about kids breaking up from school followed by lots of :lol :lol, the only funny thing about this weeks charts is it proves me right again. So like i've been saying people, during the school summer holidays you'll see nintendo continue to dominate but once the middle of september rolls around you'll see the gap close.
 
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Arde5643

Member
doicare said:
If only i knew a bookies that took bets on neogaf, i would have put down £1000 that several people would make jokes about kids breaking up from school followed by lots of :lol :lol, the only funny thing about this weeks charts is it proves me right again.
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Oh you! What a precious lil joker! :lol
 
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Gabyskra

Banned
doicare said:
If only i knew a bookies that took bets on neogaf, i would have put down £1000 that several people would make jokes about kids breaking up from school followed by lots of :lol :lol, the only funny thing about this weeks charts is it proves me right again. So like i've been saying people, during the school summer holidays you'll see nintendo continue to dominate but once the middle of september rolls around you'll see the gap close.
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It's almost f-ing AUGUST man, why do you keep insisting on the school year just ending now when in some countries kids will come back to class in like 2 weeks.

I'd have bet on you giving us more reasons to ridicule you and yet again, you do not disappoint.

"Guys guys, you do realize that at some point Nintendo is not going to keep such a gigantic lead? They might lose a Wii game or two, maybe three or four, out of 30/40! and the PS3/360 will split that share."

No shit.
 
Yoshi

Yoshi

Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
cjelly said:
Wow, Nintendo are really cleaning up.

Sony and Microsoft are so fucking dumb for handing over this summer to Nintendo on a silver platter. There is no reason to think that this momentum will not carry over until Autumn and Winter, regardless of release schedules.
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Handing over this summer? GTA? Metal Gear Solid? I don't think you are doing them justice with such a statement. Its just that Nintendo hit the mainstream's taste more this time. Sony and MS already had really big hitters this year.
 
O

Opiate

Member
Blizzard is cleaning house on the DS with Guitar Hero. This may be the game that breaks Guitar Hero wide open in the UK, where it had previously been succesful, but not nearly as succesful as it has in the US.

Yes I just wanted to say Blizzard
 
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doicare

Member
Gabyskra said:
It's almost f-ing AUGUST man, why do you keep insisting on the school year just ending now when in some countries kids will come back to class in like 2 weeks.

I'd have bet on you giving us more reasons to ridicule you and yet again, you do not disappoint.

"Guys guys, you do realize that at some point Nintendo is not going to keep such a gigantic lead? They might lose a Wii game or two, maybe three or four, out of 30/40! and the PS3/360 will split that share."

No shit.
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??? I'm talking about the uk only as that's where i live and that's where i know the trends. Schools in the uk break during the middle of july and go back during the middle of september.
 
iceatcs

iceatcs

Junior Member
Gabyskra said:
It's almost f-ing AUGUST man, why do you keep insisting on the school year just ending now when in some countries kids will come back to class in like 2 weeks.
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Maybe because UK school is end up about 2 weeks ago, They will return to school about end of August to Sept.

But damn Nintendo taking all over the world. :S
Let's hope it isn't infuse most of the developers to make only sport party or training/music (I'm deaf, music game is useless). I would love to see more other genres from Wii.
 
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nli10

Member
Thing is both camps are right, what is actually happening now is that the kids are buying slightly more games, and the adults are buying slightly more kid friendly games. Also less hardcore style games are being released and bought as us grown ups are busy having BBQs and cocktail parties (and similar). This combined effect was noticed on the DS in it's first big summer where the games that people wanted to play with their kids and on holiday dominated the charts for the six week break (Aug + 1 week July and 1 week Sep for non-UK peeps).

In summary in the UK summer kid friendly and casual games sell slightly more and core gamer games sell slightly less. Couple this with Nintendo having 3 high profile games to sell and the chart is obvious, especially as low sales will take the number 1 slot. Nintendo games per se do not however get a holiday boost, all family and portable travel games do.


Figured I'd nick that from my post last week and keep reusing it until it stops being relevant... :lol

With the amazing WiiFit increasing sales by 30% many weeks after release (due to fat kids being on their school holidays
I keed, i keed - see above
) I have to wonder whether the race for double platinum and indeed million selling diamond status is a reality. I think that it might even beat the individual GTAIV games there at this pace.

I do have to wow at a market so alive in this typically barren period for the stores - it's like retails slump period has been given a gift with all these games increasing in sales. I wonder if Soul Calibur can knock WiiFit out. Or will the Olympics bring familiar faces back to the top?


Oh - and - PS3s main games are now budget, but Wii games from similar release periods are still at full price? Gotta hurt the profit margins...
 
T

Taurus

Member
So Japan is basically Nintendo's weakest area today? Ridiculous.

Europe is the New Mushroom Kingdom, Japan can go **** themselves (or at least get a new name, like Land of the Rising Nintendo etc).

BishopLamont said:
Nintendo owns the charts in nearly every single European country, but no no no, in the UK it's because of the kids.
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So? You know those UK kids are filthy rich, they basically sleep in beds made of money.
 
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BishopLamont

Banned
nli10 said:
Thing is both camps are right, what is actually happening now is that the kids are buying slightly more games, and the adults are buying slightly more kid friendly games. Also less hardcore style games are being released and bought as us grown ups are busy having BBQs and cocktail parties (and similar). This combined effect was noticed on the DS in it's first big summer where the games that people wanted to play with their kids and on holiday dominated the charts for the six week break (Aug + 1 week July and 1 week Sep for non-UK peeps).

In summary in the UK summer kid friendly and casual games sell slightly more and core gamer games sell slightly less. Couple this with Nintendo having 3 high profile games to sell and the chart is obvious, especially as low sales will take the number 1 slot. Nintendo games per se do not however get a holiday boost, all family and portable travel games do.


Figured I'd nick that from my post last week and keep reusing it until it stops being relevant... :lol

With the amazing WiiFit increasing sales by 30% many weeks after release (due to fat kids being on their school holidays
I keed, i keed - see above
) I have to wonder whether the race for double platinum and indeed million selling diamond status is a reality. I think that it might even beat the individual GTAIV games there at this pace.

I do have to wow at a market so alive in this typically barren period for the stores - it's like retails slump period has been given a gift with all these games increasing in sales. I wonder if Soul Calibur can knock WiiFit out. Or will the Olympics bring familiar faces back to the top?


Oh - and - PS3s main games are now budget, but Wii games from similar release periods are still at full price? Gotta hurt the profit margins...
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Nintendo owns the charts in nearly every single European country, but no no no, in the UK it's because of the kids. The problem with what doicare was doing is that he stretched this "kids and holidays" theory all the way back to fucking march or something. Not only that, he hand-picked dates, instead of giving an actual period where it was occuring. It's nothing but damage control for his idiocy for the past two years. There's no two camps dude, it's Neogaf versus some idiot.

Taurus said:
So Japan is basically Nintendo's weakest area today? Ridiculous.

Europe is the New Mushroom Kingdom, Japan can go **** themselves (or at least get a new name, like Land of the Rising Nintendo etc).


So? You know those UK kids are filthy rich, they basically sleep in beds made of money.
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Only kids in UK have money and holidays? You can't put Nintendo's domination down to kids, it's been happening everywhere for awhile already.
 
T

Taurus

Member
BishopLamont said:
Only kids in UK have money and holidays? You can't put Nintendo's domination down to kids, it's been happening everywhere for awhile already.
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In UK, yes you can.

;)

I got it! United Mushroom Kingdom. Now how about that?
 
T

Taurus

Member
Starchasing said:
isnt this like the tax refund meme inthe us?
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Well we can expext the DS and Wii sales to collapse right at the moment when the kids go to school in UK again, right? Am I right folks? ...

This is fucking stupid. Even if you go down to his level you just can't make it anymore reasonable, no matter how you spin it.
 
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