BKK2 on 08 December 2008
Australia YTD:
1) Wii Fit;
2) Wii Play;
3) Mario Kart Wii;
4) Grand Theft Auto IV (PlayStation 3);
5) Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360);
6) Mario & Sonic At The Olympics (Wii);
7) Mario & Sonic At The Olympics (Nintendo DS);
8) Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii);
9) World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King (home computer);
10) Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo DS).
The energetic Wii Fit (pronounced "we fit", or "wee fut" if you're a New Zealander) may have sold a couple of hundred thousand, but it's a drop in an ocean of games which exercise only the thumbs. Sales of games are up 40 per cent on 2007, which means that when Christmas is over, Australians will have spent $1.8 billion this year buying 22 million games, or one for every man, woman and child on the continent. That's in addition to the fortunes we laid out for the latest consoles to play them on -- Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the handheld Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable.
http://blogs.sunherald.com.au/whoweare/
