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UK Chart Highlights | Nintendo DS Storms Up, PlayStation 3 Holds Steady

24.04.2007

UK Chart Highlights XCXIV
...Nintendo DS Storms Up, PlayStation 3 Holds Steady

Your weekly UK Chart Round-Up brought to you by stat-man jesusraz. Remember, the images here do not reflect actual sales!

PlayStation 3...stabilising?

It may have looked like all doom and gloom for Sony and its PS3 last week as some were predicting hardware sales of around the 10,000, a major fall from its launch week of 165,000 units, but a week can make a whole lot of difference and with stores clamouring to offer the cheapest deal to actually move the console, this time round things appear to have stabilised somewhat. However, nobody could have predicted how much of a boost the DS would have this week!

DS blasts the charts...

Remember folks that there are three Top 40 lists; All Price (includes budget and full price games), Full Price (no budget games at all) and Budget (which omits the full price titles). The likes of Wii Play and Brain Training fall into the budget category, and since Cubed3 focuses on the Full Price Top 40 (to filter out the stacks of PC-budget games), you will not find them in the main analysis. For reference, though, Wii Play shot up from No.21 to No.3, Brain Training climbed three to No.6, 42 All-Time Classics returned at No.21 and Cooking Mama made its first appearance at No.35 on the All Price Top 40. Clearly Nintendo games at budget prices are shifting very decent numbers!

Anyway, back to our main analysis, the Full Price Top 40, where in its second week on sale Pok

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paul_sant2003 24.04.2007#1

I think the main reason Heatseeker is doing so well is because there is very little else worth buying at the moment

L 24.04.2007#2

I think this is Nintendo's first no.1 in along time
and I think that pie chart is a bit out of date

jesusraz 24.04.2007#3

If you read the article it's the first time in just under four years...also:

The end of the article
Remember everyone that the image at the top is not representative of the actual market share...

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The Croft 24.04.2007#4

Sweet jesus, Nintendo dominating.

YOu know that the DS is a beast when Harvest Moon can come in at No.3 on the Full Price Chart and at No.4 on the All Prices Chart.

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jesusraz 24.04.2007#5

Smilie Exactly! I had a feeling the HM series would appeal to AC fans, and it's great to see Nintendo playing to the game's strengths. With the success of this, Nintendo will surely have no problem signing the piece of paper that allows RSG to go ahead with Magical Melody as a Wii game!

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J4K 24.04.2007#6

My goodness Nintendo took charge this week! Good to see Nintendo finally have a number one, and it will likely again when the next Pokemon is out.

Awesome. Good write-up Raz. Smilie

The Croft 24.04.2007#7

And this Harvest Moon was out on the DS's launch in Japan Smilie , hopefully this bodes well for Magical Melody (Wii) and Rune Factory for the DS.

I expect Diddy Kong Racing to rocket next week into the top 15 at least.

If anyone is interested, Nintendo had 4 exclusives in the top 6 places in the irish top 20.

Pokemon Ranger No.2
Brain Training No.3
NSMB No.4
Wii Play No.6

dojo 24.04.2007#8

Awesome analysis (as always...)

Great to see Pok

Satoshi 24.04.2007#9

Apparently 18/40 on the full price list are for Nintendo systems!!! whoot! (but that also includes things like NFS which is on all formats)

And i thought Another code had sold loads!!!!
There were huge posters for it at our local game.
All my friends (inc. me) went out and bought it during break time then we played it solid during the lunch hour. Smilie

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jesusraz 24.04.2007#10

...and then it was basically completed, right? Smilie Great game it was; lengthy it was not.

Kind of good to see the PS3 not dying away completely this week, ensuring there is still some healthy competition out there. Don't want Nintendo getting complacent Smilie

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Metroid 24.04.2007#11

Smilie What is happening here, this is a first in a decade for Nintendo Smilie

jesusraz 25.04.2007#12

I really want FFV to be picked up...it's a fantastic game and much more fun than FFIII on DS, to be honest.

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Mandown 25.04.2007#13

It's great news about Harvest Moon doing so well, i always knew it would do well here in the UK if it was given the right advertising.

Promising news for both Nintendo's platforms all round i think, and it will get better.

Once Paper Mario is released the Nintendo buzz will be out again for the summer, and of course there will be E3!. Smilie LS

( Edited on 25.04.2007 13:10 by Linkyshinks )

jesusraz 25.04.2007#14

Now all we need is for there to be a firm SPM date for Europe... Smilie

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Mandown 25.04.2007#15

I would have thought that they would divulge that info within the month of it's U.S release, so maybe before the 13th of next month.

Has it been released in japan yet?, maybe the euro release will follow soon after.

Im hearing that there are still noticable shortages of Wii in the U.S, if these reports are true that is not good as Nintendo have had ample time to step up their manufacture.

Perrin Kaplan said last month that they are now at max output, so where the hell are the Wii's in the U.S, hopefully they are in transit via shipping and not air freight and will be in those stores soon, Nintendo cannot give the others an inch to capitalize, especially now of all times during this lull in releases. LS

jesusraz 25.04.2007#16

SPM came out in Japan last Thursday and sold about 70,000 units on its first day. It has also just hit the US with a large TV campaign...So it probably won't come to Europe until around September Smilie We'll see it turn up in Nintendo's Q3 line-up list eventually.