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NZ Game Charts (Week Ending 17th Jan)

Published By: Shaun Hunter On: 29/01/2010 16:15

In what we're aiming to be a new regular news piece for NZGamer, we're going to be bringing you the weekly video game sales charts.

Nintendo have done very well for week ending 17th January, with four casual Wii titles taking the top four spots. It's interesting to note that these are all more casual titles, especially in the case of Wii Play, Wii Fit and Wii Sports.

Other trends worth noticing are that the PS3 titles have edged out their Xbox 360 counterparts with Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2. Darksiders and The Sims 3 pad out the rest of the top 10.

Pos. Title Platform

1	Mario Kart Wii W/ Wheel	Wii
2	Wii Fit Plus Bundle	Wii
3	Wii Play W/ Remote	Wii
4	Wii Sports Resort W/Motion Plus	Wii
5	Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2	PS3
6	Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2	Xbox 360
7	Darksiders	PS3
8	Assassin's Creed 2	PS3
9	The Sims 3	PC/MAC
10	Assassin's Creed 2	Xbox 360

Sales data is sourced from GFK, and excludes EB Games, The Warehouse and online sales.

Which of these games have you played? Do you fit into the trend and picked up one of those Wii titles within the past few weeks?

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On 29 January 2010, 04:22PM Posted by Soyerz

YUUUS, always wanted weekly sales charts for New Zealand. Great stuff.

Top 4 is no where near great stuff. I think new Zealand has finally got New Zealand. A bit to late as well :(

On 29 January 2010, 04:24PM Posted by Ron

Could the Wii be finally dominating? The figures say 'Yes', but Mario Kart at number 1#? Wow!

On 29 January 2010, 04:25PM Posted by Xenojay

That's fantastic. Look forward to seeing the charts over the year :)
Awesome stuff NZG.

Agreed Soyz, damn WiiWare.

I haven't played any of them cause I don't have any money too :/

On 29 January 2010, 04:26PM Posted by XDDX

Amazing to see MKWii at number one.

On 29 January 2010, 04:35PM Posted by Koopa18

Sims 2? Sure that aint 3?

On 29 January 2010, 04:39PM Posted by Phoenix

Reply to Koopa1829 January 2010, 04:35PM
Sims 2? Sure that aint 3?

Apologies, it was incorrectly listed in the data. Changing it now!

On 29 January 2010, 04:42PM Posted by Donutta

Interesting to see the PS3 beating out the 360 in all of the multiplatform games.

Anyone know why GfK doesn't count The Warehouse? I can pretty much guess why it doesn't cover EB.

On 29 January 2010, 05:48PM Posted by Oliver

Reply to Donutta29 January 2010, 04:42PM
Interesting to see the PS3 beating out the 360 in all of the multiplatform games. Anyone know why GfK doesn't count The Warehouse? I can pretty much guess why it doesn't cover EB.

I can't guess why for either of them... Anyone wanna let me know?

On 29 January 2010, 06:44PM Posted by KatalystaKaos

It's nice to see a NZ Sales chart but I can't put to much trust in a list that doesn't include EB & Warehouse. Excuse my ignorance but what is GFK anyway?

On 29 January 2010, 08:33PM Posted by ShadowKnightFTW

Pretty colours :D

On 29 January 2010, 11:22PM Posted by Donutta

Reply to Oliver29 January 2010, 05:48PM
I can't guess why for either of them... Anyone wanna let me know?

EB, afaik, operates as an Australian company in New Zealand. So, by that, their stock isn't purchased locally. (This also explains why they have a few "exclusive to EB Games" deals that, well, aren't.)

The Warehouse, on the other hand...

On 30 January 2010, 09:14AM Posted by Mr.Deflok

Reply to Donutta29 January 2010, 11:22PM
EB, afaik, operates as an Australian company in New Zealand. So, by that, their stock isn't purchased locally. (This also explains why they have a few "exclusive to EB Games" deals that, well, aren't.) The Warehouse, on the other hand...

EB doesn't release their sales stats to anyone regardless of where they're based. It's simply an arrogant choice; "Why should we? We're the best anyway".

The results are somewhat skewered because of this as other stores like Bond and Bond etc are retailers for kids, parents and those who don't keep their finger on the video game industry's pulse. Remember, The Gamesman doesn't exist anymore as a seperate entity.

I'm not sure if GFK uses JB Hi-Fi either, to be honest.

On 3 February 2010, 08:47PM Posted by ChatterboxZombie

"Sales data is sourced from GFK, and excludes EB Games, The Warehouse and online sales."

...wait, what?
so you pretty much gathered data from 1 off stores?