Australian sales charts, week ending 27/07/08

PALGN News | Mario and Sonic at number one.

Given that the 2008 Beijing Olympic games are imminent, this week's new number one is in no way, shape or form surprising. It's Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games on the Nintendo DS, still continuing to enjoy high sales months after release. Making its chart debut in second place is Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, showing that Lego's popularity will never die. Wii Play fell a spot from last week to close the week at three - the demand for Wiimotes shows no sign of abating. Coming in at number four is [i]Wii Fit, making a return to the charts after a brief absence. At five is the only non-Nintendo game in the charts in the form of the PlayStation 3's Singstar: Party Hits bundle, which comes complete with microphones.

Mario Kart Wii suffered its second consecutive fall this week, dropping from third to sixth place. Brain Training also fell this week, but only two places to seventh - rather good for a game that has been kicking around the charts for what seems like forever. Suffering the biggest fall of the week is Super Smash Bros. Brawl, dropping all the way from the top spot to a comparatively low eighth place. Bucking the trend and actually moving up in the world is More Brain Training, up a place to nine. Surprisingly low at 10 is the Wii version of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, but you can bet we will be seeing more from this one in the coming weeks.

The charts are updated weekly and are provided by those wonderful people at GfK.

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8 Comments

ANDYBALLINA

3 years ago

Good to see Nintendo dominating sales

Deus Sceleris

3 years ago

We need to stop buying Wii games... Sorry...

Mario appears in 4 out of the top 10 games, that fat plumber isn't showing any sign of stopping until he decimates the entire 10. Would it also be fair to say every game on the top 10 is for the "casuals"?

And please tell me, who the hell is buying Beijing Olympics for the 360... WHO?!

RXWAG

3 years ago

^^^as one fine member of the forums stated many moons ago.....

Fetidchimp wrote

Wonder if nintendo is going to place Mario in every situation ever conceived, Mario's Abbatoir, Mario's Brothel, Mario In Mario Land, Mario in Luigi, Super Mario's Super Mario, Super Mario Vs Bin Laden in Space, Mario Putting a Torch On His Face Telling Urban Legends, Mario Vs Predator, Blotter Paper Mario64, Don't Tell Mario Yoshi's Dead, Mario Saw What You Did Last Summer, Mario's On A Plane, Mario's : Mario's Jericho by Clive Barker and Mario Finally Does Some **** Plumbing.

redemption

3 years ago

Reading Fetidchimp's Mario thing again got me thinking. How would you make 'Mario's Brothel'?
Anyone else see it as a Them Park/Hospital sort of game?

Fetidchimp

3 years ago

oh the wii remote could be put to, odd, uses in that game

notsofat

3 years ago

they have had 9 for sooo many weeks!!!!

come on nintendo take the entire 10!!!!

on an interesting note, how long since a pc game has appeared in the 10? the last sims release? it makes me sad

Deus Sceleris

3 years ago

Fetidchimp wrote

Mario Vs Predator,

I'd buy that!

Heck, if there can be Batman vs. Predator, why can't Mario have a crack? Though i'm not sure how deadly jumping on a Predator's head would be...

barrett

3 years ago

Something wrong here.

Singstar at No.5 but not No.1 on any PS chart.

Also June dated charts.

Love the new look.Excellent job.

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