Mario Kart Wii tops global charts for 2008 Comments by Robert Purchese

Christ GTAIV sold fuck all over here!

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i was thinking the same.

Surely thats wrong.

Why are the COD5 UK sales N/A?.....

think they have swapped UK/Japan by accident?!?!?!

Global? What about Europe?

Right! This is bollocks.....

/leaves

250.000? That can't be right. Sure it is not 2.500.000?

Is Wii Fit honestly classed as a game? It sounds like a fad diet, Wii yourself thin!

I Wii'ed ten times last week and lost 3 pounds!


Also how does just US, UK and Japan sales make up global figures?

Must have got Japan and UK mixed up :p

/applauds Mario Kart and Brawl

Two of my favourite games last year. Brawl for local multiplayer and Mario Kart for the awesome online.

Yeah, it's wrong. GTA4 sold over 600k in the UK in 24 hours.

Jesus wept. What a list of uninspiring games.

The UK is a bigger market than Japan? Hmmm. Somehow I don't think we'll jump the queue still when it comes to hardward releases.....

"Jesus wept. What a list of uninspiring games. "

I disagree.

Mario Kart Wii. The latest in one of the best multiplayer racing series of all time. With Motion Sensitive steering aswell. Fantastic

Wii Fit. Great new idea that pushes gaming into a completly new direction. Some love it, some hate it. Me personally i think the balance board alone is a great peice of kit.

GTA 4. Im currently playing through this at the moment (Pc version) and although it has some floors imo its one of the best games i have ever played. The story and direction is absolutly amazing and although it didnt have as many distractions as SA the amount of content in the game (in terms of conversations, radio bulletins etc.) is amazing. Great music, great graphics, great driving, just all round great. Multiplayer and the video editor are also excellent.

Super Smash Brawl. Another installment in an excellent series. Pure multiplayer fun. And with so much variety and unlockable content it puts the cheap ass achievements to shame. Quality.

COD:WAW. TBH i haven't played this cause i found 3 and 4 a bit boring. But at least its not Wii Play




I think next year it will be Wii Sports Resort taking number 1 if it gets released.

/Adds voice to 'GTA figures must be wrong' chorus/

The UK GTA IV figure seems a bit odd.
Especially as according to the same people it had sold 1.5m copies in the UK up to july.
Maybe 1.25 took their copies back.
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Or more likely the Jap figure should be the UK one. Interesting to see how much momentum it lost after launch, only adding another million while the nintendo games added a few million each.

The Japan and UK charts are clearly swapped around.

WOW!

Interesting GTA4 sold so badly in uk...

they mustve all realised that it paled in comparision to the previous games.

Looking at COD as well..

I think the columns are labelled wrong.

The japanese and uk columns need swapping me thinks

Why do you hate Super Smash Bros, UK?

Cor, I did not expect that. I mean, I

Hey, the numbers from UK and Japan are switched!!! Fix them!!! It's clear as the sun that GTA4, SSBB and CoD:WaW figures are misplaced, not so for the first two game on the list!

UK, US and JAPAN

what...about...the rest of........ europe eh?

Sure UK is a big market, but i'm not sure it counts more than france, germany, spain & co combined