"Resource shift to the Wii"

[r2007]

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13153 Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from March 15th, 2007, include PGA tours, roads to victory, and yet more warfighting, in the advanced sense. Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows: Nintendo Wii North America: 1. Wii Play (Nintendo), 2. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (EA Sports), 3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo), 4. WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Nintendo), 5. Sonic and the Secret Rings (Sega). Japan: 1. Wii Sports (Nintendo), 2. Sonic to Himitsu no Ring (Sega), 3. Hajimete no Wii (Nintendo), 4. Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami (Nintendo), 5. Zelda no Densetsu: Twilight Princess (Nintendo). UK: 1. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo), 2. WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Nintendo), 3. Sonic and the Secret Rings (Sega), 4. Excite Truck (Nintendo), 5. Rampage: Total Destruction (Midway). Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 moves impressive numbers in its first week of release in the United States, beating out the ever-popular The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in weekly sales. Wii Play still remains at the top of the chart for the time being, however. Europe's list, meanwhile, sees the introduction of Rampage: Total Destruction, which crawls onto the tail end of the chart thanks to a recent price drop at Amazon.

Nice to see Tiger doing weel in Us and Sonic ahead of Wii Play in Japan and third in UK. It's just an indication, not total sales... but a good one nevertheless.