Thanks to NintenDaan for the tip!
Nintendo Wii
North America:
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
2. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
3. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
4. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
5. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
Japan:
1. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
4. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
5. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)
UK:
1. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
2. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
3. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)
4. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
5. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
Nintendo DS
North America:
1. Pokemon HeartGold Version (Nintendo)
2. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
3. Pokemon SoulSilver Version (Nintendo)
4. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
5. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)
Japan:
1. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (Square Enix)
2. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo)
3. Love Plus (Konami)
4. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
5. Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki (Nintendo)
UK:
1. Pokemon SoulSilver Version (Nintendo)
2. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (Nintendo)
3. Pokemon HeartGold Version (Nintendo)
4. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
5. WarioWare D.I.Y. (Nintendo)
Update: Added higher-quality screenshots
Regarding the screenshots, we once again have some in low-quality. That’s because for some odd reason, they were published as extremely small images…I’m talking thumbnails. I tried to resize them all, but that obviously meant the quality of the screenshots would take a hit!
Last month, the Wii saw the release of a significant game, Monster Hunter Tri. The title has received heavy marketing from Capcom with television commercials and online promotion. However, there have been a number of questions regarding how well Tri would do overseas as the series has not reached the same popularity in Europe and North America as it has in Japan.
Well, the game apparently sold about 126,000 units in the United States. This is, of course, based on data from NPD. Monster Hunter Tri launched on April 20, so that data includes less than two weeks from sales. Tri didn’t set the sales charts on fire, but Capcom is most likely relatively pleased with how it’s performing so far.
– Time trial races
– Platform challenges: Finish a jump, don’t total your vehicle
– Puzzle modes: Need to find the right track pieces to finish
– Multiplayer options
– Can send tracks via Wi-Fi
– Stadium, island, desert, snow, rally, coast themes
– Environments change how your vehicle drives, handles
– Ghost data appears for first/seconds/third while you race
– Can restart a time trial race by pressing a button
– Your best times will show up as ghost data
– Can save ghost data to Wii (one for each track)
– Earn coppers by winning races
– Use coppers to customize your vehicle, track creator
– Download tracks made in the creator through Wi-Fi
– 60 FPS
– Releasing in July
PSP – 35,233
Wii – 31,399
DSi LL – 26,733
PS3 – 26,185
DSi – 15,739
Xbox 360 – 4,278
DS Lite – 3,921
PS2 – 1,491
PSP go – 1,464
For comparison’s sake, here are the numbers from last week.
PSP – 59,315
PS3 – 32,874
Wii – 30,757
DSi LL – 25,569
DSi – 15,628
Xbox 360 – 4,943
DS Lite – 4,068
PSP go – 1,890
PS2 – 1,577
Nintendo Tops U.S. Video Game Hardware Sales in April
According to the independent NPD Group, Nintendo’s Wii™ system and Nintendo DS™ family of systems outsold all other gaming hardware in the United States during the month of April. Even before the announcement of the new Wii hardware package, U.S. sales of the Wii console topped 277,000 for the month. Meanwhile, the Nintendo DS family of hand-held systems sold more than 440,000 units nationwide. Together, Nintendo video game system sales represented 60 percent of all hardware sold in the United States in April.
“Consumers recognize the unprecedented combination of value and fun offered by Nintendo game systems,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “But including even more hardware and software with every Wii system should drive consumer interest even higher.”
PlayStation 3 180.8K
PSP 65.5K
Xbox 360 185.4K
Wii 277.2K
Nintendo DS 440.8K
Title Platform Publisher Release Date Units Rank
TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION* 360 UBISOFT Apr-10 486.1K 1
POKEMON SOULSILVER VERSION NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-10 242.9K 2
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 200.3K 3
POKEMON HEARTGOLD VERSION NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-10 192.6K 4
GOD OF WAR III* PS3 SONY Mar-10 180.3K 5
WII SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 6
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-10 7
WII FIT PLUS W/ BALANCE BOARD* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09 8
JUST DANCE WII UBISOFT Nov-09 9
SUPER STREET FIGHTER IV PS3 CAPCOM USA Apr-10 10
