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Nintendo is no stranger to sales success, with the Wii having sold over 90 million units and the 3DS growing with popularity by the day.
The video game giant’s most recent accolade is having the Wii Balance Board bestowed with the Guinness World Record for “best-selling personal weighing device”. To achieve this honour, the peripheral sold a whopping 32 million units between its launch in December 2007 and November 2010. This impressive total comprises 22.6 million bundled with Wii Fit and 9.4 million bundled with Wii Fit Plus.
During Nintendo’s recent shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday, a few choice pieces of information emerged regarding possible future directions for star designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s games.
They may seem like throwaway comments… and they probably are, but Miyamoto has a habit of telegraphing what games he’s working on based on the discussion of his hobbies: his interest in gardening lead to the creation of Pikmin. The addition of a dog to the Miyamoto household produced Nintendogs. And when the legendary game developer became obsessed with measuring his waist and weighing himself, Wii Fit was born.
More recently, Miyamoto casually mentioned that he found cats interesting. Lo and behold, Nintendogs + Cats was just announced at E3 2010.
You see where I’m going with this.
So when Miyamoto talks about his hobbies and extra curricular activities, gamers, investors, current shareholders and even other game designers had better take note.
What’s Miyamoto been up to lately?
It’s official: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the best selling, biggest blockbuster of a game to release during 2009. All of those other times you were told Modern Warfare 2 was the biggest and best don’t count.
As part of an in-depth report published by GfK Chart Track on trade site MCV.co.uk, some interesting worldwide software sales figures for the top five videogames of 2009 have been revealed, with a breakdown by region (US, Japan and UK) also provided.
At number one, Modern Warfare reigns supreme with worldwide sales of 11.86 million units, while Wii Sports Resort dillydallies behind with 7.57 million units.
To find out who the other three are, and what the sales breakdown per region is, you need only casually roll your eyeballs a little further below:
Earlier this year popular singer Beyonce Knowles joined the list of stars to appear in Nintendo DS TV commercials. However, it seems as if Beyonce’s interest in videogames does extend beyond playing popular DS game Rhythm Heaven.
Speaking to Billboard magazine, Knowles commented “I’m interested in a lot of different things. I’d like to get involved in videogames since I really love Wii Fit.”
Sales numbers uncovered in Nintendo’s last quarterly financial report reveal that the Japanese giant managed to achieve four million-selling games for the three-month period ended June 30th, down from six games during the same period last year.
Pokemon Platinum, Wii Fit, Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii all sold over a million units for the quarter, although there were no replacements for smash hits Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii Play, both of which boosted Nintendo’s number of million-selling titles last year.
The full list and precise sales numbers for each of the four million-selling Nintendo games follows below:
Nintendo of South Africa is challenging local families to compete in a series of game events at Pick ‘n Pay Hypermarkets throughout the country, for a chance to win one of two big prizes, namely a family trip for four to Euro Disney, or R100 000 cash.
All you need to do to stand a chance of winning is make your way to a Nintendo Games area at one of the seven participating Pick ‘n Pay Hypermarkets (full details follow below) and enter the Nintendo Games 2009 challenge as a family of four, which can comprise any combination of family members, such as Dad, Gran and two siblings, for example.
What exactly is the Nintendo Games 2009 challenge, though?
For the second week in a row, primarily PC title The Sims 3 has taken the top spot on the UK Software Sales Chart, sitting pretty at No. 1 despite a 48% drop in sales.
The open-world actioner, Prototype, manages to claim No. 2 during its debut week on sale, while last week’s No. 2, Red Faction: Guerrilla (sales down 31%), moves down to No. 2. Wii Fit (sales up 18%) makes a mini-resurgence, climbing to No. 5 from No. 4 this week, but UFC 2009: Undisputed (sales down 36%) slides down two places from No. 3 last week to No. 5.
It’s no secret that many gamers were less than happy with Nintendo’s show and tell at last year’s E3 press conference. If the recent rumours are anything to go by, Nintendo has plans in the pipeline to change that perception with the publisher rumoured to be announcing Wii Fit Plus at their E3 press conference next week.
According to Siliconera.com, a trademark with an English logo for Wii Fit Plus has been unearthed in the Japanese trademark database.
Wii Fit has finally been budged from its perch atop the UK Software Sales Chart this week, with not one, but three debut titles beating Nintendo’s dominating fitness hardware and software bundle, relegating the title to No. 4 this week.
At No. 1, UFC 2009: Undisputed debuts in the software chart, with a console sales split of 52% on Xbox 360 and 48% on PS3. Nintendo’s Pokemon Platinum finally releases in the UK, managing a placement at No. 2 in its first week on sale, while EA Sports Active hits No. 3 during its first week on the chart.
For the seventh consecutive week, Nintendo’s Wii Fit (sales down 26%) has managed to place itself at the No. 1 position on Chart Tracks’s UK All Formats Software Chart.
This feat adds to the title’s total number of weeks at the top (now at 16 weeks since launch) and reduces the number of weeks until it equals the all time record holder, Who Wants to be a Millionaire from Eidos (2 weeks to go).
OK, now this is getting a little ridiculous. Wii Fit, for the sixth week in a row, has managed to clinch the No. 1 position on the UK All Formats Software Chart, even with a sales drop of 7%. This is the fifteenth week at the top for Wii Fit since it launched, now only requiring three more weeks at the top to equal the all time record holder, Who Wants to be a Millionaire from Eidos.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine hangs tough at No. 2 (with a 16% sales increase), while Fifa 09 (13% sales increase) and Wii Play (12% sales decrease) have to remain content with their previous positions of No. 3 and No. 4 respectively.
Following their (most impressive) financial results reported yesterday, Nintendo have revealed their list of million selling titles on the Wii and DS.
No surprises to see Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit top the list of million-selling Wii titles, while Nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros and Cooking Guide (?!) top the list of million-selling DS titles.
Check out the full list of Nintendo’s million-selling Wii and DS first-party titles below:
There’s just no stopping Nintendo’s Wii Fit, as it manages to hold on to the No. 1 spot in the UK Software Sales Chart for the 5th week in a row, as X-Men Origins: Wolverine debuts at No. 2.
Wolverine does manage to top the Xbox 360 and PS3 charts this week, though, with 51% of sales recorded on the Xbox 360, 39% of sales recorded on the PS3, and the rest going to the other platforms (PS2, PSP, Wii, DS and PC).
Well, gamers in the UK must really like Wii Fit, because it’s still dominating the UK All Formats Software chart, now in its fourth consecutive week at the top, despite a drop in sales of 11%.
This week at the top also marks Wii Fit’s thirteenth No. 1 appearance since it launched, gradually moving towards the record of 18 weeks at No. 1 on the UK chart, originally set by the quiz game, Who Want to Be a Millionaire, from Eidos in 2000.
It seems Wii Fit isn’t going down without a fight, as it hits the top of the UK All Formats Software Sales Chart this week for a third time in a row, now totalling twelve weeks at the No. 1 position, despite sales falling by 30%.
The Godfather remains at No. 2 from last week (sales down 32%) as another EA game, Fifa 09, climbs two places from No. 5 last week to No. 3 (sales down 17%). Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games steps down to No. 4 from No. 3 last week (sales down 35%), while former chart star, Resident Evil 5, also moves down one place to No. 5 this week from No. 4.
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