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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has moved into the number one spot on the UK all formats chart according to data released by Chart-Track, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
For the week ended 8th December, the Wii game featuring the Nintendo and SEGA mascots moved up six places to knock Need for Speed: ProStreet out of the number one spot.
The biggest mover of the week was Mario Party 8, which came up all the way from number 27 to enter the Top Ten at number 10.
New to the chart this week were The Golden Compass (#16), Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (#24), Link's Crossbow Training (#27), and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (#28).
The complete Top Ten all-formats chart is as follows:
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
- Need for Speed: ProStreet
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- The Simpsons Game
- FIFA 08
- Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training
- Assassin's Creed
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
- WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW 2008
- Mario Party 8
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sweetcheeks
11/12/07 @ 10:41
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Apparently no one reads reviews then...
first again woot woot. i took today off to do christmas shopping, i better get round to it before my family disowns me DOH 'second comes great after first' - buzz aldrin/simpsons
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Mario & Sonic @ The Olympics is fast becoming the new Wii Sports - I've been to parties where they've just had a Wii running this game in the corner and it attracted a lot of attention from all sorts of people, it was crazy.
Mario Party 8 I just dont get though. I'm a big fan of the Mario Party games, but that one was absolute gash. |
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HyperShadow
11/12/07 @ 10:43
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I am impressed by this, although, there are a few weeks before Christmas for normal service to be reserved. If you know what I mean.
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ShieldOfFaith
11/12/07 @ 10:43
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More mini game trash, Wii owners just can't get enough of it for some reason. Glad to see COD4 still selling well.
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The Bodybuilder
11/12/07 @ 10:45
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MS are disgusting.
Spent all thier ad money on halo 3 posters on every bloody london bus, and not a single tv ad or poster for mass effect. I swear, if mass effect turns out to be another shenmue (great game that did not get finished due to lacklustre sales), i will instantly swap my 360 for a ps3. I can't deal with another shenmue situation. |
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"I swear, if mass effect turns out to be another shenmue (great game that did not get finished due to lacklustre sales), i will instantly swap my 360 for a ps3.
" No worries m8.. Mass Effect just hit 1M sold in 3 weeks worldwide (and is predicted to hit around 3M worldwide).
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The Bodybuilder
11/12/07 @ 11:10
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>"No worries m8.. Mass Effect just hit 1M sold in 3 weeks worldwide (and is predicted to hit around 3M worldwide). "
O'RLY? Have you got a link to that to ease my fears? I generally don't care for games sales, however I really want mass effect to be completed as a game, as although I haven't finished it yet, it's easily my GOTY. |
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Here you go:
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/m...
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Right then, is it any good? Been debating this one for a while. All I want is 'mini game trash', something for when friends come round as an alternate to Wii Sports. Not bothered if the single player is pish (I also have COD4, legend), just want to hear from people who've got it as to whether their friends/family like it as much as Wii Sports. This will be from my young nephews to my 60 year old folks. What do you reckon, worth a punt?
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DonnieDarko333
11/12/07 @ 11:37
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Well Done!
Mario Party 8 in my opinion is the best one, the mini-games are much better because your much more involved in them! Great for Xmas! |
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The Bodybuilder
11/12/07 @ 12:13
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@ pyrat6
I think his argument is that, up until now, no track game had ever become number, not even the official olympic games during the olympics, especially against the wealth of AAA games out now (mass effect, and it's very own mario galaxy). Yet a track game on the wii becomes all-format number 1 against other AAA games? Also remember that mario party is outselling galaxy. I mean really, what can anyone do, if ninty's own mario galaxy, arguably the biggest game in thier library, cannot beat mario party and a track-n-field game? |
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thiswaynow
11/12/07 @ 12:20
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Is it just me, or is Galaxy just really hard to find right now. In my part of the country it seems to be sold out everywhere, which I guess is why it's not charting.
My Mario & Sonic is wrapped ready for Christmas day, btw |
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For a change, French hardware sales to date:
Wii: 1.100.000 X360: 500.000 Ps3: 270.000 http://www.jeux-france.com/news23083_500... |
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@ bodybuilder
"I think his argument is that, up until now, no track game had ever become number, not even the official olympic games during the olympics, especially against the wealth of AAA games out now (mass effect, and it's very own mario galaxy). " I was being silly really .... I should have included smilies :) You are absolutely right. But it's often the way (especially at xmas) that mediocrity sells. Anyway. What about Daley Thompson's Decathalon ! That was famous. |
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I agree with Darren:
As long as M&S can keep the diabolical (yes diabolical) Pro street from becoming Xmas nr. 1, I'll cherish (yes cherish!) it forever, no matter if it's any good or not. It's like eliminating Germany from the World Cup. No offense to eurogamer.de's. It's just that your national football team gives me a migraine ... |
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FenderMaster
11/12/07 @ 13:50
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poor uncharted...
if it was a bit longer i'd buy it... ... but i just cant justify E70 on a gme that only lasts 8 hours... |
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GrandpaUlrira
11/12/07 @ 14:19
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Mario Party 8 was heavily discounted in Gamestation, half price, so that explains why it shot up the table. I'm curious about Mario and Sonic though.
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Landmaster
11/12/07 @ 14:19
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I thought Mario & Sonic would be shit considering the terrible reviews.
Maybe because i expected it to be so terrible, it's so good? I think not. |
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Me and my hot girlfriend (she has the heater on a lot during the winter) got Mario & Sonic a week ago. Played through each of the default open events and found each one to be extremely tedious, with lumpen controls. Far too many events where you just shake the remotes up and down continually, which is both knackering and boring.
And why, oh why, did Sega decide that the B-Trigger button should be used to make the characters jump in the Hurdles? It doesn't feel natural, should have been the A-button. I was hoping it would be as much multilayer fun and skillful as Track & Field (the arcade machine, of which, I used to have in my lounge), but it just didn't work for us. We love Wii Sports, but loathed Mario & Sonic enough to shove it on eBay the next day. This is one notch above Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, in terms of multilayer fun. And we all know how good that was... |
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The Bodybuilder
11/12/07 @ 17:48
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>"Anyway. What about Daley Thompson's Decathalon ! That was famous."
But not number one. Imagine if it sold more than super mario bros? |
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manic_mouse
11/12/07 @ 18:51
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"That's damned depressing.
Mario & sonic (which is average at best) at the top, and mario galaxy isnt even in the top ten!" Damn casuals! |
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We should be celebrating that NFS isn't top near Christmas for once.
For what it's worth I find Mario & Sonic to be an absolute blast with 2 or 3 people, has finally replaced Wii Sports as the party game of choice. It's not a bad game by any means (and hasn't really reviewed badly, just average) I guess the haters went after the game as for once they couldn't moan that Wii owners don't buy games. Would love to know what's going on with Mario Galaxy though, it's going the way of Lego Star Wars in terms of availability. Play.com haven't had any steady stock since its release, Amazon have sold out, stock in actual physical stores is a bit random at best. I assumed it was selling in silly numbers considering it's relatively hard to get hold of. I've also noticed that many stores have hiked the prices of Wii games in the past few weeks, I assume due to stock shortages. Particuarly online it's not very easy to find the popular Wii games at the moment. |
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plastickitty
11/12/07 @ 23:26
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the reason why mario party 8 re-entered the chart is because gamestation was selling it half price last week at £17.49 and was heavily advertised so it was being snapped up.
it sold so well that we had to remove the game from the shelves and we only allowed to sell it to people who asked for it at the counter. Expect it to drop out again this week as we ran out of stock but it'll be back at it's normal price of £34.99. This week is lego star wars complete saga so that might be charted higher than usual next week tho it hasn't been nowhere near as popular. |
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