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UK CHARTS: Wii Fit takes £16m as it hits No.1
Tim Ingham Apr 28 2008, 4:49pm
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Record-breaking title becomes sixth fastest-selling UK release ever – despite £70 price tag
Nintendo's Wii Fit has shot straight to the top of the ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats chart in its first week – becoming the sixth fastest-selling UK release of all time.
The fitness game, which was launched on Friday, was bought by roughly one in 10 Wii console owners in its first two days on the market.
It took an estimated £16.3m in sales, making it the third largest release in terms of value for a video game product ever – behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (£24.2m in week 44, 2004) and Halo 3 (£16.9m in week 39 2007). Half of all Wii software sold in the week was made up of Wii Fit units.
The Nintendo title even eclipsed the record-breaking launch only two weeks ago of Mario Kart Wii, replacing it as Nintendo’s fastest selling title in the UK.
Sales of Mario Kart Wii slowed this week, slipping by 62 per cent. However, the popular racer only drops one place to second – making it the first time since Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire on GBA in 2003 that Nintendo has had the top two games in the All Formats Chart.
Sega’s Mario & Sonic slips down from second to third spot, whilst both Sony’s Gran Turismo 5: Prologue and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 also fall one place, dropping to fourth and fifth respectively.
Nintendo’s Brain Training is the only All Formats top ten game to move up the chart, climbing from ninth to eighth.
The full top ten for week ending Saturday, April 26th reads:
1) Wii Fit – Nintendo
2) Mario Kart Wii – Nintendo
3) Sonic & Mario – Sega
4) Gran Turismo 5: Prologue – Sony
5) Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 – Konanmi
6) Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – Activision
7) Sega Superstars Tennis – Sega
8) Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training – Nintendo
9) UEFA 2008 – EA
10) Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 – Ubisoft
Comments
“Yeah but it cost twice the price”
Posted: Apr 28, 5:06pm
"It took an estimated £16.3m in sales, making it the third largest release in terms of value for a video game product ever – behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (£24.2m in week 44, 2004) and Halo 3 (£16.9m in week 39 2007). Half of all Wii software sold in the week was made up of Wii Fit units."
Yeah but at £70 compared to £30 / £35 for the other 2 value wise it was always going to be high.
Lets watch GTA4 blow it out of the water this week.
“Re: Yeah but it cost twice the price”
Posted: Apr 28, 5:20pm
well said that man, unit sales will be dowey in comparison to gta 4 tomorrow :)
“Re: Yeah but it cost twice the price”
Posted: Apr 28, 5:53pm
Really don't understand those comments - it's like you're trying to have a dig at it because the higher price means unit sales will be lower than normal.
This isn't a competition. Yes, the units will be approximately half those you'd normally expect from sales of that volume... but so what? It's still made a lot of money and has still been a massive, massive commercial success.
I presume you're relating to some sort of fanboy thing?
“Re: Yeah but it cost twice the price”
Posted by: Ben Morgan - Apr 28, 8:30pm
Wii Fit did well but could have done so much better if Nintendo had supplied enough stock!!
There are also a number that have been returned to retail due to have a french disc!!
Mariokart is 2nd but with both now out of stock, most other titles will be better this week.
Nintendo have told retail that Mariokart is not due back into the Uk until May 30th.
“Re: Yeah but it cost twice the price”
Posted: Apr 28, 10:02pm
games for benders!
“Re: Yeah but it cost twice the price”
Posted by: Ian Cameron - Apr 28, 11:41pm
Lets watch GTA4 blow it out of the water this week
U mean like the Wii has blown the PS3 and Xbox 360 out of the water for the past yr and a half?
And surely a higher price would harm sales of software especially considering most of you hardcore fan boys say that Wii owners are all "casual gamers" who let the wii gather dust. Why would these people pay so much money for a game..... oh thats rights.....because its innovative ... something neither the Xbox360 or Ps3 has managed to do thus far.
“Actually...”
Posted by: BL - Apr 29, 10:16am
Thought the point they were making was that in its first week, which is really 3 sale days? its taken in 16m pounds of revenue.
it took San Andreas and Halo 3 44 weeks, 39 weeks respectively for both of them to take in that much revenue (in the UK).
So yes Wii fit may be twice as expensive but, the point is how quickly it took in that much money. twice as expensive doesn't matter when the difference is at least 36 WEEKS of sales to achieve the same number.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought thats what MCV was getting at...
“Re: Actually...”
Posted by: FoolFish - Apr 29, 3:43pm
Hey BL,
it means GTA: San Andreas was released in Week 44 2004, not it took 44 weeks to get to that number, same with Halo 3 (released in week 39 2007).