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Wii Fit, Mario Kart sell a million each News
Wii News by Robert Purchese
Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii have both sold over 1 million copies in the UK.
Both follow trends set by the likes of Grand Theft Auto IV, which has gone double-platinum on both Xbox 360 and PS3.
Of course, those figures on Edge make no mention of Wii Play, which has ridden the UK all-formats top 40 chart here since release.
Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii join other UK best-sellers Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Vice City in the platinum ranks.
You can find a full list of double platinum sellers over on the ELSPA website. There are some quite eye-opening entries.
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farticusmaximus
28/11/08 @ 11:46
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"Mario Kart is one of the best games I've played in last 25 years"
Methinks you need to play more games. Being able to collect a special item to take you from last to first place on the final stretch = entirely broken game. It's good fun with 4 players round a couch, but a classic it most certainly is not. |
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Look at the diamond sales.
It's all Nintendo, apart four games on the PS2 and they don't count because they're last generation. Nintendo wins. Flawless victory. (That should get the thread going. After all, it's what EG want with these sales figures threads.) |
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"Yes, year after year, after year... "
Do you live in leap years? The first Mario Kart was released on the SNES in 1992. In total there have been 6 Mario Kart games released for Nintendo consoles - that includes the two handheld versions. Everyone has their favourite, but overall -all- of them have been critically well received and sold very well - what other metric is there for determining what a good game is? We've had 3 Halo games since 2001, 3 God of War games since 2005 (assuming the third arrives soon), NINE Wipeout games since 1995... I think Mario Kart gets labelled with this 'same thing every' year stigma because each one gets so much attention and have all generally very good. Conversely not many people know the difference between Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Fusion - in fact to me, the entire Wipeout series is more guilty of releasing the same game every time. But no it's cool to bandwagon rather than think so LOL MARIO KART 8289289 MILK THAT COW DRY NINTENDO LOL
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"Mario Kart is one of the best games I've played in last 25 years"
I'd agree, except that I've already played it already. At least twice. Honestly, I'm getting very tired of the constant lazy re-runs from Nintendo. I loved Mario Kart on the SNES. I loved it on the DS. I kind of liked it on the GameCube. On the Wii, well, it's just getting a little old now. Edit: and yes, you can say that about every sequence of sequels, except that MK has a habit of re-using *content* too. How many re-runs of the same circuits have we seen? I loved seeing the old SNES circuits in MK DS, honestly, but there's a limit to how many times you can do that.
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@Dan234
"Mario Kart came out first on the GC and later on the DS." Uh, no, it was first on the SNES, then the N64, then the GBA, then the GC, then the DS, then the Wii, I'm sure I've missed a handheld implementation or two though. It's always fun, not often all that innovative, although I loved MKDD on the GC, the COOP was great, not a huge fan of the bikes on the Wii version as I think the wheelie boost is broken. |
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"I loved seeing the old SNES circuits in MK DS, honestly, but there's a limit to how many times you can do that. "
Uh, they've only done classic tracks in Mario Kart DS and Wii - and none of the classic tracks featured in one game feature in another... Bit of a weird thing to pick on when they've only done it twice and there's nothing taken away from the games by adding them? |
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""Mario Kart is one of the best games I've played in last 25 years. Totally deserves it, congratulations. "
Yes, year after year, after year... " Yes.. you're totally right.. Yet another carbon copy fps game deserves that sort of level of praise. We get about 30 of them a year! Something like halo 3... |
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"Uh, they've only done classic tracks in Mario Kart DS and Wii - and none of the classic tracks featured in one game feature in another...
Bit of a weird thing to pick on when they've only done it twice and there's nothing taken away from the games by adding them?" MK Wii regurgitated tracks from both of the most recent games (MK DS and Double Dash), as well as picking tracks from the older SNES & N64 versions. The sense of deja-vu on the DS and GC tracks was a little too recent. All I'm saying is that playing MK Wii for the first time I actually felt like I'd already played a lot of the content already. I don't look for that in a game. Had the gameplay felt *incredibly* tight I may have forgiven it that, but it didn't - better than Double Dash (a low point anyway) but not up to the refinement of MK DS. YMMV. |
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electrolite
29/11/08 @ 09:10
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Both well-deserved IMHO. Mario Kart is maybe lacking a little graphically but it's probably one of my most-played games of the year. Wii Fit I got bored of and sold on but that's because I bought a gym membership instead, it's really well done. I can see why it's sold.
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canIdoyabombsforya
04/12/08 @ 12:15
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The Wii should be banned. Clearly only adults are buying it, they should be out working. No wonder the economy is shite.
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