Australian sales charts, week ending 08/02/09

PALGN News | The Nintendo assimilation is complete.

Nintendo has taken its chart dominance to a whole new level this week. No longer content with merely having the top three games every week, Nintendo has locked up the entire all format top ten in a show of strength not seen since the glory days of the PS2.

The top two games flipped places this week, with Mario Kart Wii taking over from Wii Fit as the top-selling game in the country. Brain Training didn't budge from its third place, nor did the Guitar Hero World Tour super bundle shift from fourth. In an attempt to keep up with its older brother, More Brain Training jumped a whopping five spots to close the week in fifth place.

After a week break from the top ten, the Wii Play/Wii remote bundle is back in the charts, in an unusually low sixth place. The resurgent Wii tennis sim Top Spin 3 slipped a few places from last week, but is still hanging on in seventh position. Hitting the charts at nine is another flippin' DS training game, in the form of Maths Training. We bet all the kids can't wait to get their hands on that one. Super Smash Bros. Brawl is still continuing to sell, ending the week at nine, with DS newcomer Hasbro Family Game Night behind it at ten.

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

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16 Comments

celikaz

3 years ago

ninty owns ur homes.... with wii sports!

RXWAG

3 years ago

stunning.....who-da-thunk-it. funny i don't even own either of those consoles. want to get myself both again eventually...

sobriquet835

3 years ago

Well, it had to happen eventually. Nintendo were always gonna come back strong after the Cube failure, never thought it would be quite this dominant, though.

mipac

3 years ago

To be fair, it's not like anything HUGE came out for PS3/360. Wait until Killzone 2 and Halo Wars are available over the next few weeks to see a shift in the charts

DancesInUnderwear

3 years ago

mipac wrote

To be fair, it's not like anything HUGE came out for PS3/360. Wait until Killzone 2 and Halo Wars are available over the next few weeks to see a shift in the charts

Yeah, the chart is clearly dominated by recently released Nintendo titles, such as that game came out in April last year, the game that came out in July last year and the game that came out in June 2006 (I had to check when that game came out and, seriously, thats absolutely ridiculous).

ObsoletE

3 years ago

mipac wrote

To be fair, it's not like anything HUGE came out for PS3/360. Wait until Killzone 2 and Halo Wars are available over the next few weeks to see a shift in the charts

i reckon they'll appear for a week, and then the charts will return to this as everyone will buy them day one.

?oe?oe

3 years ago

Mario Kart is still awesome haha!

Sunday at 7:30, be there, or you might as well just end your life.

Itachi

3 years ago

ohhh mannn that Hasbro family game night looks to good to be true!!!!

Gnomey

3 years ago

How do this work Nintendo loses the most to piracy in the world, which one of you idiots is filling their pockets. Seriously though, how do they sell so much with such easy piracy options avalible.

Pixie

3 years ago

Nintendo dominating doesn't suprise me one bit. Looking at the sales sheets at work it's all wii and ds with a few PS3 & 360 thrown in but mostly were preorders for Street Fighter, Killzone 2 and Halo Wars etc.

john_solids

3 years ago

mipac wrote

To be fair, it's not like anything HUGE came out for PS3/360. Wait until Killzone 2 and Halo Wars are available over the next few weeks to see a shift in the charts

and i still think we will see a nintendo title topping the list. both those titles will probably come in around 5 or 6

catlover30

3 years ago

Gnomey not everyone likes to steal software and make developers lose their livelihood, whether its easy or otherwise.

bleach1st

3 years ago

wow the overall scared the crap out of me!

jedi022

3 years ago

Sorry I'm afraid this picture is mandatory in a topic such as this.

Mush Man

3 years ago

Edit (28/2/2011): This post was stupid. It is now removed.

waz79

3 years ago

@Gnomey, Isn't it like Celine Dion getting the no.1 on the Aria charts? Most people who buy Nintendo are honest copyright following people. Clearly appealing to mainstream people, who actually pay for music on Intunes, are the best money maker.

360 is friggin easy to rip games for as well, don't tell me you don't that.

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