UK software sales (Week ending 1/2)
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Individual formats
1  	 	1  	   	   	WII SPORTS RESORT  	WII  	NINTENDO  	NINTENDO
 2 		2 	  	  	WII FIT PLUS 	WII 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO
 13 		3 	  	  	JUST DANCE 	WII 	UBISOFT 	UBISOFT
 3 		4 	  	  	NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII 	WII 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO
 4 		5 	  	  	CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 	XB360 	ACTIVISION 	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
 5 		6 	  	  	MARIO & SONIC AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES 	WII 	SEGA 	SEGA
 9 		7 	  	  	MARIO KART WII 	WII 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO
 8 		8 	  	  	ASSASSIN’S CREED II 	XB360 	UBISOFT 	UBISOFT
 10 		9 	  	  	FORZA MOTORSPORT 3 	XB360 	MICROSOFT 	MICROSOFT
 7 		10 	  	  	CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 	PS3 	ACTIVISION 	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
All formats
1  	 	1  	   	   	CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2  	INFINITY WARD  	ACTIVISION  	ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
 3 		2 	  	  	ASSASSIN’S CREED II 	UBISOFT (MONTREAL) 	UBISOFT 	UBISOFT
 5 		3 	  	  	MARIO & SONIC AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES 	SEGA 	SEGA 	SEGA
 4 		4 	  	  	WII SPORTS RESORT 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO
 6 		5 	  	  	WII FIT PLUS 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO
 2 		6 	  	  	FIFA 10 	EA CANADA 	EA SPORTS 	ELECTRONIC ARTS
 12 		7 	  	  	JUST DANCE 	UBISOFT (FRANCE) 	UBISOFT 	UBISOFT
 7 		8 	  	  	NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO
 9 		9 	  	  	MARIO KART WII 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO 	NINTENDO
 8 		10 	  	  	JAMES CAMERON’S AVATAR: THE GAME 	UBISOFT (MONTREAL) 	UBISOFT 	UBISOFT
Media Create hardware sales (12/21 – 12/27)
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Wii –  	215,129
 DSi – 	113,984
 PS3 – 	110,519
 PSP – 	105,801
 DSi LL – 	81,430
 DS Lite – 	17,695
 Xbox 360 – 	6,489
 PSP go – 	4,192
 PS2 – 	3,747
For comparison’s sake, here are the numbers from December 14 (last week).
PS3 –  	237,086
 Wii – 	191,915
 DSi – 	95,227
 PSP – 	79,194
 DSi LL – 75,241
 DS Lite – 	12,879
 Xbox 360 – 	8,965
 PSP go – 	3,260
 PS2 – 	2,982
ESRB updates
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Elemental Masters (DSi) – T
 Foto Showdown (DSi) – E
 Jigapix Pets (DS) – E
 Jigapix Wild World (DS) – E
 JIGAPIX Wonderful World (DS) – E
 My Ballet Studio (Wii/DS) – E
 Project Runway (Wii) – E
 Scene It? Twilight (DS) – T
 Shiren the Wanderer (Wii) – T
 Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest (DS) – E10+
 Dark Void Zero (DSi) – E
 Tetris Party Deluxe (Wii) – E
 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia (DS) – E10+
 Witch’s Wish (DS) – E
 Fire Panic (DSi) – E
 Let’s Golf! (DSi) – E
 Legends of Exidia (DSi) – E10+
 Musiic Party – Rock the House (Wii) – T
Weekly savings (1/3 – 1/9)
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Best Buy
Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum (Wii) – $19.99
 Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout (Wii) – $14.99
 My Fitness Coach 2: Exercise and Nutrition (Wii) – $29.99
 EA Sports Active: Personal Trainer (Wii) – $39.99
 EA Sports Active: More Workouts (Wii) – $29.99
 Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy (Wii) – $49.99
 Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii) – $44.99
 Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Wii) – $14.99
 Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage (Wii) – $39.99
 Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 (Wii) – $49.99
 Punch-Out!! (Wii) – $44.99
 Free Personal Trainer: Walking with DSi purchase
 The Biggest Loser (DS) – $9.99
 Wii Fit Protective Cover – $14.99
 Wii Everlast Aerobic Steps – $19.99
Target
Battle of Giants: Dragons (DS) – $20
 Littlest Pet Shop Friends: Beach (DS) – $20
 Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS) – $20
Dear Girl: Stories Hibiki – Hibiki Tokkun Daisakusen!, Kurayami no Hate de Kimi o Matsu, Saikin Koishiteru? videos
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SEGA says they probably won’t create more mature games for Wii, talks sales, and more
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On the latest edition of the 4 Guys 1UP podcast, Constantine Hantzopoulos, a studio director over at SEGA, had much to say about the state of mature Wii games. Hantzopoulos discussed a number of topics, including sales of MadWorld, House of the Dead: Overkill, and The Conduit. But most importantly, he talked about the possibility of creating mature games for the Wii in the future. According to Hantzopoulos, after seeing the performance of SEGA’s mature titles and Dead Space Extraction, SEGA is now less likely to produce similar content for the platform.
“I have to say that it was a space that was open and we took a gamble on it. It’s like, ‘Wow, there’s no mature games on the Wii. Is there an audience out there?’ We did some research, it said there was an audience out there. I won’t comment about Nintendo, they did champion The Conduit as a ‘this is a Nintendo game.’ And, you know, I think they did okay by us. At the end of the day, I just think that you’re seeing kids are skewing much younger towards next-gen. And that’s what I saw out of Conduit. Because not a bad game, visually it’s appealing, right? AI wasn’t that great. High Voltage’s first real effort as an indie developer, creating their own IP. And it was a good effort, right? And there’s always Conduit 2, right? …Anyone past 12 years old was playing 360 and PS3 shooters. And at that point, you can’t tell a 13 year-old, ‘But it’s on the Wii.’ Forget it, you know? That’s not what they see or hear. They’re not really interested in any techno-fetishist aspects of look how great it is on the Wii…And, you know, the effort that we put behind multiplayer on that game to basically get by friend codes and provide worldwide match-making and so on and so forth, I actually thought we dove too deep…
…Circling back to the whole mature Wii thing, again SEGA took a gamble, we put out some pretty decent content. I mean, House of the Dead: Overkill and MadWorld are great Wii games. They really are, especially House of the Dead: Overkill. That game is funny…Yes [it did better than MadWorld]. I mean they’re both doing okay and at the end of the day we’ll make our numbers, that’s good. Conduit’s done quite well for us. It’s been slow burn. That’s the other thing you find out about the Wii. It’s not necessarily first 3 weeks like most titles. And DS. It’s a longer burn, actually. So panicked at first, but it’s like okay.
But that begets the question, are we going to do more mature titles for the Wii? And it’s like, probably not. Look at Dead Space. We were stunned. That was my litmus test. Basically, it’s like, okay, you got EA, who can put all the marketing muscle behind this, an established franchise that scored quite well on 360 and PS3. They should be able to actually hit this out of the park, right? We get numbers, real numbers aside from NPD, and I’m like, ‘Woah.'”
Kutsushita Nyanko, Hello Kitty no Paku Paku Logic, Will O’ Wisp DS videos
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Nintendo Download (1/1, Europe/Australia)
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WiiWare
Happy Hammerin’
 Tomena Sanner
Nintendo DSiWare
Dragon’s Lair
 High Stakes Texas Hold’em
 Miami Nights: Life in the Spotlight
The top 10 best-selling games of 2009 in Japan (Media Create)
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About two weeks ago, we posted a listing of the best-selling games of 2009 in Japan, which was based on Famitsu data. Now numbers from Media Create have been calculated and unlike the Famitsu rankings, the list below is slightly more up-to-date (weeks 1 to 52).
01. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Square Enix) – 4.043.218 / NEW
 02. [NDS] Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (Pokemon Co.) – 3.465.000 / NEW
 03. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) – 2.440.000 / NEW
 04. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) – 2.317.000 / NEW
 05. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix) – 1.690.000 / NEW
 06. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) – 1.568.000 / NEW
 07. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) – 1.315.000 / NEW
 08. [WII] Monster Hunter 3 (Capcom) – 931.705 / NEW
 09. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Threat of the Invaders – Fire / Blizzard (Level 5) – 908.000 / NEW
 10. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP the Best) (Capcom) – 848.742 / 1.057.270




