Keeping Fit - guess what’s still top of the UK charts?
If you said Call of Duty or FIFA 09 (or, indeed, anything other than Wii Fit) then hide your face in shame.
If, however, you said Wii Fit (which I’ll presume is just about everyone, given that you’re clearly an intelligent bunch for visiting this here blog) then you’d be entirely right, as the chart-shagging megahit managed to top the All-Formats Chart with room to spare, holding off the challenge of FIFA 09 and Call of Duty: World at War.
In truth, it’s a pretty slow week - Wii Fit merely has the lowest drop in sales (a tiny 2%) of all the top ten as the credit crunch nibbles away at a few more wallets. That’s not to say that no-one’s buying - the week’s highest new entry is the casual-pleasing Mystery Case Files: Millionheir - a kind of Where’s Wally with bad puns. Not content with nabbing two of the top four, Nintendo greedily hang onto positions five to seven, with Mario Kart Wii and Wii Play standing firm and Professor Layton perched just above ‘em.
Elsewhere, it’s not quite so good news for nostalgia fans, with neither Chrono Trigger DS nor New Play Control! Pikmin anywhere to be seen. The latter’s price-point (and distinct lack of marketing presence) seems to have hurt its chances, but it’s sad to see the former underperforming. Have most people imported, is the game just not well-known enough, or has piracy - so rife on the DS - harmed its sales? Perhaps it’s a combination of the three.
One more bright spot on Nintendo’s consoles - EA’s Sim Animals, as is often the way with Wii and DS titles these days - sees a massive weekly sales increase on its debut week (up a whopping 90%), the game entering at number 22.
This Friday sees the release of Bolt on about twelve different formats, plus the surprisingly excellent FEAR 2 and House of the Dead: Overkill, which I shall be getting this week. All of which surely pose some kind of challenge to Wii Fit’s throne. Can it hold on for a fifth week in a row? Tune in same time, same place in seven days’ time to find out.
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February 10th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I suspect the weather in the UK has had an affect as well. I’m still waiting for Chrono Trigger to be delivered at my local Game store, 4 days after it’s release. And yet they had Pikmin on the day of release too, which is a bit strange.
Pikmin is actually getting pride of place on shelves, not just in Game but also places like HMV, so I’m a bit surprised it doesn’t feature. To many people (me included) it will be a totally new game, so I wouldn’t think the price point would put too many people off.