Australian sales charts, week ending 19/04/09

PALGN News | People still love old Nintendo games.

Wii Fit, Wii Play. What else is new. Boring now. Moving along, third place sees a new entry, and it's none other than, uh, Disney's Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force for the Nintendo DS, five months after its North American release. Can't really say we expected that. It's that other Wii game, Mario Kart Wii, in fourth place - but that wraps up the Wii games in the top ten. It seems Nintendo's console is desperately in need of some new blood. Oddly, the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare continued its resurrection, climbing two places to end the week at five.

This, however, came at a cost, pushing DS heavyweight Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars down a spot to sixth. New Super Mario Bros. is climbing back up the charts, jumping into seventh place. PS3 shooter Killzone 2 was able to claw back a few slots to finish the week at eight, managing to keep on selling despite being sandwiched between old DS games, with Mario Kart DS at nine. Call of Duty 4 on the PS3 is back in the charts for another round in tenth place.

The overall theme this week? People like buying old games, and not even animated film tie-ins - such as Monsters Vs. Aliens - seem to be able to stop the trend.

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

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10 Comments

Glen McLeod-Thorpe

9 months ago

Hahah, I like how each week you become just a little more bitter Brendan.

catlover30

9 months ago

Hey don't knock Club Penguin. Club Penguin is like WoW for kids. It's unbelieveable how many kids play it.
I always fully expected the game to be #1 of the DS chart. Just watch out, it may even climb up higher on the all games chart next week...