Nintendo actually own the ENTIRE WW sales at the moment. The top 5 are all Wii/DS titles - with the next 2 titles being pack-in titles.

All 5 of those games are effectively Ninty published titles - and Japan hasn't been counted yet.

Pretty awesome charts, and amazing numbers - in the end its THESE numbers that matter!

(Wii/DS has 7 of the top#10 games WW for last week, 5 of which were published by Ninty)

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Mario & Sonic is doing great, and at this rate will smash 1.5m sales by the end of the year (alone)! Its actually tracking a lot higher than I expected, and if the DS version does anywhere as well - its on track for 5-6m lifetime sales.

I think M&S will surprise everyone. Sales is slow and then picking up wind and I think it will surpass SEGA's expecation of 4M LTD.

This game's meant to be good as well, so I was surprised at how poorly it sold elsewhere. I guess with casual games, you need to reach a critical mass for word of mouth, and that's partly down to luck.

I wouldn't bet on that, but lets see ok? :)

This article explains the large mario and sonic numbers in the UK

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16579


The game’s sudden rise to the top can be attributed in large part to its inclusion in several unofficial retail hardware bundles – generally the only way the supply constrained Wii is now sold in the UK. Similar bundles also accounted for the sudden re-appearance of Mario Party 8 at number four in the charts, as well as Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 at number twenty.

whatever the reason, looks like Sega are on track to have 2 Wii million sellers soon - top this off with REUC making it in 2008 and Ubisoft already hitting that milestone and the supply constrained Guitar Hero 3 set to hit 1m also then it's not a bad way to end Q1 2008.

There's hope for the Wii third Party devs yet