Amazingly, four months after its release, Mario Kart Wii is sitting proudly at the top of the All-Formats Top 40 chart. It displaced Wii Fit with a six percent sales increase, while the flab-fighting phenomenon’s figures dropped by almost a quarter. Elsewhere, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games wound up just behind more serious rival Beijing 2008: The Official Game, and the remote-bundled Wii Play stayed in fifth spot.

Indeed, it was another amazing week for Nintendo - six games out of the top ten are exclusive to DS or Wii, with both Guitar Hero III (on Wii) and the portable Guitar Hero: On Tour continuing to sell well.

Whatever happened to Nintendo games entering the charts highly before plummeting to oblivion the next? Evidently we’re entering a new age of gaming where regular promotion and word-of-mouth are affecting sales more than ever before. Fascinating stuff.

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm by Chris Schilling
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