Nintendo owns UK games market

[Bounty]

Of course, the Wii and DS are just gimmick-ladern Fischer Price failures waiting to be crushed by Real Mens' Consoles.

Nintendo continues to dominate the UK video game chart, relecting its resurgence in the industry.

Eight of the top 10 selling games of the last week are exclusive titles for Nintendo's Wii or DS handheld console.

The other two titles are multi-format games, which can also be played on Nintendo's machines.

All-platform title Transformers, based on the movie, held on to the number one spot, with DS title Pokemon Diamond at number two and Wii Play third.

Nintendo's Wii has been the success story of the current generation of console hardware, shipping more than 9.27 million globally since it was launched last year.

Microsoft has shipped more than 10 million Xbox 360 consoles, but the machine went on sale a year earlier than the Wii.

The Wii is expected to overtake sales of the Xbox 360 imminently. Sony has sold 4.1 million PlayStation 3 consoles.

Nintendo's DS handheld console is the global market leader, with more than 45 million sold since it was introduced in 2004.

Other titles in the UK top 10 include Brain Training, More Brain Training Pokemon Pearl and Cooking Mama on the DS, and Mario Party 8 on the Wii.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the remaining multi-format title in the chart.

[Xisiqomelir]

Needs full chart, too

[DPDarkPrimus]

The top-selling software in Japan has been almost entirely Nintendo for the past year plus.

[Ford Prefect]

So, right about now, are all the higher-ups in Nintendo allowed to start cackling like madmen?

[Dartzap]

....You mean they were not already doing so......?

What was kinda bizarre was that when i checked the local Woolies, most of the shelves were full of Brain Training, and they were selling really quickly. I didn't know that we needed our intelligence boosted even more. We're cynical enough as it is.

[SAMAS]

So, right about now, are all the higher-ups in Nintendo allowed to start cackling like madmen?

Please, Mrs. Miyamoto is already complaining about her husband going into full-on Evil Laughter in his sleep.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Mrs. Miyamoto is too busy taking money baths to complain.

[Praxis]

[Laughing Mechanicus]

Good for them, but I really wish they would make a little more effort to release games sooner in the UK. Trauma Center for Wii only came out here last week and Super Paper Mario isn't coming out for another month at least.

[Stark]

Don't get me started on the fucking release bullshit. I guess adding all those 'u's isn't worth it?

[Chris OFarrell]

Praxis wins this thread.

But yes, the DS and DS lite have been the utterly dominating force in the console industry since they came out. The GBA was solid, but the DS has just left every other platform so far behind, its not funny. The Wii of course hasn't exactly been a bad decision either.

There is something that made me do a double take when I went to a nursing home a few days ago to visit a friend of the family...and saw a bunch of 70-80 year olds waving Wii-motes around at the big plasma in the community room.

[Bounty]

And now they own the world, too.

Vgchartz.com, the most comprehensive Videogame charts in the world has announced that lifetime sales of Nintendo's Wii have passed Microsoft's Xbox 360 on a worldwide basis as of August 23rd. (*)

Two years ago, very few analysts would have predicted the Nintendo Wii would be market leader this generation against the established Playstation and Xbox brands. But analysts can be in error: Vgchartz.com data, which is based on sample data from retailers all over the world indicates that the week ending August 23rd Nintendo's Wii (which was released one year after the Xbox 360 in November 2006), currently standing at 10.57 million consoles sold, passed Xbox 360 lifetime sales of 10.51 million units, making Nintendo the new market leader in both the home and handheld videogame console businesses.

As weekly data from vgchartz.com shows(**), the console outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by a margin of 2.3 : 1 worldwide on average each week since its release, selling at an even faster rate than the most successful console ever created, Sony's Playstation 2, despite still being sold out in most major markets.

This is the first time that a company has been market leader in the home console and the handheld market since 1994 when Nintendo’s Super NES and Gameboy dominated worldwide.

Vgchartz.com is proud to be first to announce this major sales cross over as an independent tracker of sales and expect this to be a milestone for the current generation. In just two years, home console sales for the three major manufacturers have effectively reversed. This will have a large impact on third party publishers and will undoubtedly influence the decisions they make in the future.

One factor that has no doubt helped Nintendo's Wii to gain so quickly is the console's broad appeal across all age groups, demographics and countries. Current sales are pretty evenly split between the three major markets – 3.46 million have been sold in Japan, the American market (including Canada and South America) accounts for 4.24million and Other markets (including Europe and Australia and a few niche markets) for 2.87 million units sold, respectively.

[Xisiqomelir]

And now they own the world, too.

Don't cite VGC, ioi started just making up numbers a while ago.

This BBC article will serve you better.

For live updates as sales figures come in, there's the GAF takeover thread.

Also, speaking of sales coming in, today is NPD day. If it's as hilarious as people predict, it should be a good time

[Bounty]

Don't cite VGC, ioi started just making up numbers a while ago.

Really? Didn't know that.

[Xisiqomelir]

Don't cite VGC, ioi started just making up numbers a while ago.

Really? Didn't know that.

Yeah, don't use NexGenWars either. NGW has a great forum for trolling and fighting the system wars, though.

[Xisiqomelir]

Also, speaking of sales coming in, today is NPD day. If it's as hilarious as people predict, it should be a good time

No hilarious plot twists in the raging battle for 2nd place guys, sorry.

I have charts and data though!

[Praxis]

This BBC article will serve you better.

Wait, I met a guy from BBC at E3 who told me he was writing an article about that exact topic. Why can't I find a name in that article for the writer? Do you see one?

[Xisiqomelir]

This BBC article will serve you better.

Wait, I met a guy from BBC at E3 who told me he was writing an article about that exact topic. Why can't I find a name in that article for the writer? Do you see one?

IIRC you don't get bylines for regular stories. I'm no journalist though, so I really don't know.

In other news, Wii is #1 worldwide.

[Bounty]

You can e-mail the BBC and ask. They usually reply pretty fast.