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WMP flag-waver doing the business.

Wii Sports Resort has jet-skied past the 600,000 sales mark in Europe, GamesIndustry.biz reports, and taken under two weeks to do so.

The game launched here on 24th July and promptly shot to the top of the UK all-formats chart, recording the fourth biggest first-week sales of any Wii game.

Wii Sports Resort will be gunning for a third consecutive top spot when the UK charts air this coming Monday.

Elsewhere in the world, WSR took eight days to pass half-a-million sales in the US, and became the third fastest selling game on Wii in Japan.

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superted1974 #1 3 years ago

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Europe or UK?

You might need to amend the headline or the text
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quantumsheep #2 3 years ago

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That's very impressive.

Played this at a mate's house, with two MP thingies.

I really loved the archery and the table tennis - the rest were a bit.. meh - but I only played it for a short while.

Still, good going ol' ninty!
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macmurphy #3 3 years ago

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Huzzah. Anything that can get my old man cackling like a banshee is well worth the investment. Canoeing rocks.
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KrissAkabusi #4 3 years ago

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Need to change that headline, my jaw dropped when I thought it had done better business in the UK than US.
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giant_frying_pan #5 3 years ago

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Has to be the Europe figure.
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sneetch #6 3 years ago

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@saucymonk
So is it UK or EU?

The first sentence in the article reads: "Wii Sports Resort has jet-skied past the 600,000 sales mark in Europe".
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StooMonster #7 3 years ago

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Perhaps it's sold 600,000 and 0 in the rest of Europe?
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superted1974 #8 3 years ago

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Although Stoomonster's logic is spot on it must be the headline that is wrong.

They seem to have done well on their stock/supply issues. I asked in the off chance of Asda about a week after launch and they said they had piles of them out back. They must have been stockpiling the M+ for a while - they are big numbers for the US and for Europe.

Perhaps the consipiracy theory that toy/console manufactures creat stcok shortages in order to raise demand is flawed!

Edited by 2 at 07/08/09 @ 15:21
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uglygamer #9 3 years ago

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I can confirm its Europe

http://ww w.joystiq.com/2009/08/07/wii-sp...
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paulf #10 3 years ago

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@sneetch

and the headline says

UK Wii Sports Resort sales hit 600k

hence the confusion - cmon Mr Purchese sort this out
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sneetch #11 3 years ago

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@sneetch

and the headline says

UK Wii Sports Resort sales hit 600k

hence the confusion - cmon Mr Purchese sort this out

Really? I was sure it always said "Euro Wii Sports Resort sales hit 600k". Apologies if my post appeared snooty.
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Syrette #12 3 years ago

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What would we do without you uglygamer?
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Cadence #13 3 years ago

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It does say that NOW. It didn't earlier.
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