Wii Fit has cemented its position on the top of the UK charts by, er, dropping 17% of sales from last week, but nevertheless selling enough to keep Call of Duty in runner-up spot, while EA’s definitely-better-than-PES-this-year FIFA 09 rises to third position. But the big mover on this week’s chart is Professor Layton and the Curious Village, with more shops carrying stock of the in-demand puzzler, pushing its sales up 54% on last week. Can it climb even higher?

Elsewhere, Mario Kart Wii sees a small increase in sales at number six, while Wii Play and My Fitness Coach both drop a place each. EA might be disappointed by the performance of SimAnimals, which only managed to reach number sixteen on the Wii Full-Price chart, though it might well rise next week as Wii software tends to do.

Wii Fit’s position makes it Nintendo’s joint second longest-lasting number one, with a total of seven weeks at the top, matching Pokemon Gold which achieved the same feat eight years ago. It still has some way to go to beat Pokemon Yellow one year earlier, which managed a whopping ten weeks at the summit.

Will Wii Fit make it four consecutive weeks on top? Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box and Cooking Mama 2: World Kitchen probably represent its strongest challengers next week - I can’t see New Play Control! Pikmin toppling the casual-pleaser, though stranger things have happened. Tune in next week to find out. Or, for a more detailed run-down of the All-Formats Top 40, click here.

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This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm by Chris Schilling
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