Thats a big firgure considering that most new Wii games retail at about £35 -> £40 compared to the PS2 at about £30. Not too sure though if this can be used as an indication of the quality of the games because as blocky as my first games were for my ps2 they would wipe the floor with rayman raving rabbids anyday lol

I was sure PS2/Dreamcast games were £40 at the start? I know it was a BIG thing when Dreamcast games were reduced to £30 general RRP. In fact, I think that price drop was just in time for Skies of Arcadia, as I wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise. My memory may be failing me, though, and the price drop of £40-30 maybe occured later? I'm pretty certain PS2/Dreamcast etc games all started off at a general RRP of £40, though...

I remember many games, at least selling in GAME being sold at £40 and even £45 like timesplitters 2 to start off with for the first few years before some started to come down to £35-35 near the arse end of the consoles life.
Funny how some complain about price rises but games have always been sold around that price way back to the PS1/N64 days

Ah, i didn't know that. In that case its even more impressive.

Wii started off at £30 ASP, PS2 was £40, and these are just nominal value. why these guys always give us some PR ****?

I don't remember a Wii game being less than £40 at its launch unless it was preowned.

Yeah, it was indeed Sony who kick started the £40 - £45 new release price revolution with the PS1.

I'm pretty sure when Ocarina of Time launched, it was about £65 - £70?!

Prior to that, as far as I can remember, new release SNES games used to average at about £60.

Gadzookes!! Thats bonkers pricing!!!

Pantythief: OoT was £50 on day one- I think it was Turok which was £60-70. Or was it that Star Wars game?

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Yeah but they always count Wii sports as a "sold" game but it comes packaged with the Wii in many countries.

@9: thats a dirty tactic, i guess that means wii play is also getting counted.

@ka0znrky

Super Fruit Fall & Pinball Classic both came out under £30. Wii Play cost just £5 if you remove value of wii remote.

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Wii play was about £35 when it launched so you are right there but fruitfall and pinball definetely weren't less than £30, it took until after xmas before they fell into the £29.99 range of wii games and that was only because they weren't selling.

Hi all. As mentioned in the article, Nintendo has said that these figures don't include 'sales' of Wii Sports.

@8 Turok was £70, I think Star Wars Shadows of the Empire was either the same price as Mario & PilotWings or it was £5 more.
Good value for money as we got a lot of play out of them, because there weren't many games released for the first few months!

The prices isn't so much a big factor here. There are plenty of Wii budget games.

What surprises me is that so many have criticised the machine for its software sales... but that is clearly wrong.

Majority of 3rd party SNES games came out at £45 didn't they (though some were naturally higher, like Starwing at £50 and SFII even higher), with Nintendo's own at £40... high 3rd -party prices due mostly to Nintendo's rather high costs charged to devs.

If you ask me (or even if you don't), higher sales figures are a clear indication of a more widespread market penetration, and has nothing to do with quality or quantity of games available. For me, Wii and PS3 both only have a meer handful of games I'd even consider.

@9 & 10, have another go at reading the 3rd paragraph of the actual article.

@17: Wii Play is counted as a seperate game and goes towards their total sales record.

Not so sure what Nintendo are so pleased about. It's just over 2 games per console in 18 months. How many people bought two games when they picked up the console?
I find this worrying. It looks like a lot of people are picking up the console for WiiSports and not bothering with any other games. The Wii is a great machine, but some of the games that Nintendo have allowed to come out just aren't good enough in this era. They would have been borderline last gen.