Quoted and bookmarked.

we said the same thing when GTA4 came out, I have eating crow ever since. Learn from history, Wii games have legs, long ones. I bet you it sells more next week.

and everybody ignored this: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=92748&page=1 :(

Told you it wouldn't do that well in the UK compared to the rest.

For UK only .

as long as mw2 sells a million on 360 this week, 500k of ps3. uncharted 2 sells at least 100k and both the ps360 are above 300k ill be happy

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/36614/Wii-sales-leap-as-Xmas-factor-kicks-in

Wii sales leap as Xmas factor kicks in

Black SKU gives console Q4 lift as it becomes last week’s biggest seller; Nindie.com working ‘round the clock’

Wii hardware sales jumped 60 per cent last week – as the black version of the console helped stimulate fresh interest in time for Christmas.

The Black Wii, which launched a fortnight ago on Friday, November 6th, helped the console become the best performing home system of the week, according to Nintendo.

And preferred distributor Nindie.com – owned by
Koch Media – has told MCV that it has been working “round the clock” to deal with increased demand.

“Of course it would be wrong to attribute all of this to Black Wii as we’re all starting to see a natural peak season uplift on all hardware,” said senior Nintendo product manager Rob Lowe.

“But we have been really pleased with Wii’s performance over the last couple of weeks and the new Black Wii has certainly contributed to that. In fact Black hardware sales have doubled week-on-week.”

Nintendo is hoping to avoid any stock troubles as demand increases. Lowe added: “We’re bringing in a decent supply of stock and hopefully retail will find it in plentiful supply this Christmas – although consumer reaction to the new colour might suddenly change that position. It is a limited edition version of the console so currently we only have plans for it to be available in 2009.”

Koch Media boss Craig McNicol added: “We are working around the clock this Q4, opening each weekend to take in deliveries to support yet another strong Nintendo Christmas. Nindie.com continues to be the only place to offer a fair allocation of stock to the independent channel.

"We allocate our stock based on the market share that our customers have built up with Nindie on first party Nintendo purchases in the past quarter. Loyalty gets paid back with fairness.”


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Seems like Wii had a pretty big increase last week, although the article doesn't mention this increase is based on Gfk numbers.

It's not that fact that it's a Wii game, but that it's a Mario Kart title or 2D Mario. They'll have legs on any system.

More next week?Thats a pretty risky one right there lol.

Doubt it will even do the total amount of pre-orders.

Forza 3 could be actually very close this week to previous week in term of sales, just cut the AC on PS3 and X360 + new Mario - the games that started this week and we will have Forza on the same position that last week.

And wow at ODST it could have even higher sales than last week (90k-100k ?).

Dragon Age Origins on PS3 - Wow, just wow. Lets hope it's because of lower PS3 instal base in UK and the rest of Europe doesn't follow this.

Link? Not because I don't trust you, but because I live here and never see any sales charts (apart from Xtra-Visions weird way of charting their games, but those give no figures).