Latest UK Charts (w/e 25/04/09) + March Sales Awards (p3)

Wii Fit's Marathon Run at the Top

Nintendo take a fourth consecutive week at No1 with ‘Wii Fit’ (-11%), totalling 13 weeks at No1 in all (9 of which have come in 2009) and the title is gradually homing in on the all time record of 18 weeks at No1 on this chart, set back in late 2000 / early 2001 by Eidos’ ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ on PS1, Dreamcast and PC.

The only new entry is right behind at No2, Atari’s ‘The Chronicles Of Riddick: Dark Athena’ on 360/PS3/PC. EA’s ‘The Godfather II’ (-48%) drops one place to No3 and EA’s ‘FIFA 09’ also drops one place to No4 (-25%). The rest of the All Formats Top 10 shows no change over last week. Capcom’s ‘Resident Evil 5’ is No5 (-17%), Nintendo’s ‘Professor Layton and the Curious Village’ is No6 (-31%), Nintendo also stay put at No’s 7 & 8 with ‘Mario Kart Wii’ (-32%) and ‘Wii Play’ (-27%). Activision Blizzard remain at No9 with ‘Call of Duty: World at War’ (-29%) and Take 2 stay at No10 with ‘Carnival: Funfair Games’ (-25%).

Kiran wrote:I see the flop that is Killzone 2 is still fighting the good fight.

Zellery wrote:

Kiran wrote:I see the flop that is Killzone 2 is still fighting the good fight.

And I see you're still fighting the good fight also.

Kiran wrote:

Zellery wrote:

Kiran wrote:I see the flop that is Killzone 2 is still fighting the good fight.

And I see you're still fighting the good fight also.

I'm not fighting any good fight. I don't even have the game, just like to make a comment on the chart topic in relation to what someone else says in a previous week.

Zellery wrote:It's not it's chart position (which is still pretty bad for a game that came out a month ago) anyway, it's the fact it cost so much only for it to not reflect that level of investment.

Hero of Canton wrote:12th on the Wii chart. Deep sigh.

Everyone who didn't buy it should be shot in the face at point-blank range with a cow cannon.

CrashHornet wrote:

Hero of Canton wrote:12th on the Wii chart. Deep sigh.

Everyone who didn't buy it should be shot in the face at point-blank range with a cow cannon.

I'm hoping that word of mouth will give it a boost, I think I would have been surprised at a stellar opening week. Fingers crossed it's up there next week. Probably wishful thinking though.

Still it's pretty depressing that everyone moans that there 'aren't any games on Wii' and then when a brilliant one comes along, no strawberry floater buys it.

Kiran wrote:I see the flop that is Killzone 2 is still fighting the good fight.

Hero of Canton wrote:

CrashHornet wrote:

Hero of Canton wrote:12th on the Wii chart. Deep sigh.

Everyone who didn't buy it should be shot in the face at point-blank range with a cow cannon.

I'm hoping that word of mouth will give it a boost, I think I would have been surprised at a stellar opening week. Fingers crossed it's up there next week. Probably wishful thinking though.

Still it's pretty depressing that everyone moans that there 'aren't any games on Wii' and then when a brilliant one comes along, no strawberry floater buys it.

Let's hope it has a long tail - it might be one of those games which never troubles the top 40 but hangs around outside it for ages and eventually, quietly, ends up posting decent numbers. I kind of hoped Nintendo might try and get behind this and give it a bit of marketing clout. It's worked with third-party publishers in the past, and this kind of game is deserving of greater exposure.

CrashHornet wrote:Yeah, I hope so. I was out and about yesterday and it had fairly decent positioning in HMV, GAME and the like. So if it can stay there for a bit and people get wind of how good it is, who knows? Still, you would hope that it's opening sales would have been enough to get into the chart. While I'm far more interested in how it does in the long run, that's the kind of thing that can knock it from its frontal position in a store, to the alphabetical bottom shelves.

Rik wrote:Will pick up LKS when it drops in price which will be soon now it has bombed.