Channel Surfing: Virtual Console/WiiWare Sales Chart, W/E Feb 8th, 20 - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 20 February 2009 / 8,271 Views

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[url=http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2775]December, 2008[/url]
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100k+ sales	250k+ sales	500k+ sales	1M+ sales
500k+ $/ €	1M+ $/ €	2.5M+ $/ €	5M+ $/ €

Today we present to you the American and PAL sales for the week ending February 8th in the Americas, and February 9th in PAL. Unfortunately no Japan data is available, but instead I'm giving you a top 20 for the other two regions. Titles in bold italic were released during the tracking period.

TW	Americas WiiWare Games	Publisher	Weekly	Total	Revenue
1	Tetris Party	Hudson	4,800	110,400	$1,324,800
2	My Aquarium	Hudson	4,300	131,400	$657,000
3	World of Goo	2D Boy	4,000	117,900	$1,768,500
4	CueSports -- Pool Revolution	Hudson	3,200	27,600	$138,000
5	Snowboard Riot	Hudson	2,600	2,600	$26,000
6	Dr. Mario Online Rx	Nintendo	2,500	235,900	$2,359,000
7	Fun! Fun! Minigolf	Shin'en Multimedia	2,300	25,000	$225,000
8	Midnight Bowling	Gameloft	2,300	57,800	$462,400
9	Target Toss Pro: Bags	Incredible Tech.	2,200	44,300	$310,100
10	Brain Challenge	Gameloft	2,100	47,500	$475,000
11	Sandy Beach	Konami	2,000	14,100	$70,500
12	My Pokemon Ranch	Nintendo	2,000	191,400	$1,914,000
13	Defend Your Castle	XGen Studios	1,800	216,400	$1,082,000
14	Wild West Guns	Gameloft	1,600	80,000	$800,000
15	TV Show King	Gameloft	1,300	196,500	$1,965,000
16	Tiki Towers	Real Arcade	1,200	21,500	$107,500
17	Bomberman Blast	Hudson	1,200	61,400	$614,000
18	Mega Man 9	Capcom	1,200	113,300	$1,133,000
19	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King	Square Enix	1,200	170,100	$2,551,500
20	Pong Toss: Frat Party Games	JV Games	1,000	71,700	$573,600

TW	PAL WiiWare Games	Publisher	Weekly	Total	Revenue
1	World of Goo	2D Boy	3,300	39,800	597,000 €
2	My Aquarium	Hudson	3,200	128,600	643,000 €
3	FUN! FUN! Minigolf	Shin'en Multimedia	2,700	17,900	143,200 €
4	TV Show King	Gameloft	2,500	208,600	2,086,000 €
5	Pop Them, Drop Them SAMEGAME	Hudson Soft	1,900	4,100	20,500 €
6	Brain Challenge	Big Blue Bubble	1,700	39,700	397,000 €
7	Bomberman Blast	Hudson	1,400	51,000	510,000 €
8	Tetris Party	Hudson	1,400	53,700	644,400 €
9	Cue Sports-Snooker vs Billards	Hudson	1,300	28,700	229,600 €
10	My Pokemon Ranch	Nintendo	1,200	97,800	978,000 €
11	Family Glide Hockey	Arc System Works	1,100	2,300	11,500 €
12	The Incredible Maze	Digital Leisure	1,100	35,400	177,000 €
13	Wild West Guns	Gameloft	1,000	75,900	759,000 €
14	Lost Winds	Frontier	900	166,200	1,662,000 €
15	FFCC: My Life as a King	Square Enix	900	123,000	1,845,000 €
16	Defend Your Castle	XGen Studios	800	61,800	309,000 €
17	Sudoku Challenge!	Digital Leisure	800	9,100	45,500 €
18	Art Style: ORBIENT	Nintendo	800	8,100	48,600 €
19	Space Invaders Get Even	TAITO	800	24,900	124,500 €
20	Pit Crew Panic!	Hudson Soft	700	12,100	60,500 €

Tetris, My Aquarium, and World of Goo maintain their hold on the top three spots in the Americas, though World of Goo has slipped to third. Tetris is only 8th in PAL, but World of Goo and My Aquarium still have the top two spots locked down there.
Snowboard Riot cracks the top 5 in the Americas in its first week, though we'll have to see how long it can stay up there. (Last week, we estimated 3,000 first week sales for the game.)
The other new American release, Lonpos, didn't chart (less than 1,000 sales).
Sandy Beach at 11th, released a month ago, is the next most recent release in the American chart, with nothing in between even close.
Nothing new for WiiWare released in PAL last week, but for recent PAL releases, Pop Them Drop Them Samegame and Family Glide Hockey hold onto their spots pretty well in their second week, with only small drops.

TW	Americas Virtual Console Games	Platform	Publisher	Weekly	Total	Revenue
1	Super Mario Bros. 3	NES	Nintendo	12,800	1,061,900	$5,309,500
2	Super Mario Bros.	NES	Nintendo	8,400	1,009,800	$5,049,000
3	Super Mario World	SNES	Nintendo	3,900	691,700	$5,533,600
4	Super Mario Bros. 2	NES	Nintendo	3,500	513,300	$2,566,500
5	Pac-Man	NES	Namco Bandai	2,900	418,000	$2,090,000
6	Legend of Zelda, the	NES	Nintendo	2,800	472,500	$2,362,500
7	Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream	NES	Nintendo	2,700	491,100	$2,455,500
8	Mario Kart 64	N64	Nintendo	2,700	613,500	$6,135,000
9	Donkey Kong	NES	Nintendo	2,600	301,800	$1,509,000
10	Super Mario 64	N64	Nintendo	2,600	570,900	$5,709,000
11	Donkey Kong Country	SNES	Nintendo	2,200	334,500	$2,676,000
12	Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the	N64	Nintendo	2,000	443,000	$4,430,000
13	Sonic the Hedgehog 2	MS	Sega	1,700	44,500	$222,500
14	Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars	SNES	Nintendo	1,700	174,700	$1,397,600
15	Tecmo Bowl	NES	Tecmo	1,600	237,000	$1,185,000
16	Galaga	NES	Namco Bandai	1,300	129,000	$645,000
17	Castlevania III	NES	Konami	1,100	9,200	$46,000
18	Excitebike	NES	Nintendo	1,100	149,400	$747,000
19	Sonic the Hedgehog	MS	Sega	1,000	103,700	$518,500
20	Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the	SNES	Nintendo	1,000	315,100	$2,520,800

TW	PAL Virtual Console Games	Platform	Publisher	Weekly	Total	Revenue
1	Super Mario Bros. 3	NES	Nintendo	4,100	460,900	2,304,500 €
2	Super Mario Bros.	NES	Nintendo	3,000	397,200	1,986,000 €
3	Sonic the Hedgehog	MS	Sega	1,900	83,300	416,500 €
4	Super Mario World	SNES	Nintendo	1,800	339,100	2,712,800 €
5	Super Mario 64	N64	Nintendo	1,700	326,100	3,261,000 €
6	Secret of Mana	SNES	Square Enix	1,500	20,000	160,000 €
7	Sonic Chaos	MS	Sega	1,500	1,500	7,500 €
8	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	N64	Nintendo	1,400	268,800	2,688,000 €
9	Wonder Boy in Monster Land	MS	Sega	1,300	4,200	21,000 €
10	Mario Kart 64	N64	Nintendo	1,000	334,200	3,342,000 €
11	Alex Kidd in Miracle World	MS	Sega	900	95,900	479,500 €
12	Super Mario Bros. 2	NES	Nintendo	800	203,300	1,016,500 €
13	Mario Golf	N64	Nintendo	800	3,600	36,000 €
14	Pac-Man	NES	Namco Bandai	700	138,600	693,000 €
15	Sonic the Hedgehog	GEN	Sega	700	176,400	1,411,200 €
16	Sonic the Hedgehog 2	MS	Sega	700	5,400	27,000 €
17	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	SNES	Nintendo	700	192,900	1,543,200 €
18	Donkey Kong Country	SNES	Nintendo	700	159,300	1,274,400 €
19	The Legend of Zelda	NES	Nintendo	600	106,600	533,000 €
20	Super Mario RPG	SNES	Nintendo	600	66,300	596,700 €

Mario continues to rule the Virtual Console scene in both the Americas and PAL, with Nintendo owning 11 of the top 12 spots in the Americas and 12 of the 20 spots in PAL.
Sonic Chaos gets into the top 10 in PAL in its first few days on sale, but didn't break into the top 20 in the Americas after its first week (less than 1,200 sales). This fits with the general trend of Sonic titles in particular and Sega system titles in general being more popular in PAL than in the Americas.
Castlevania III continues to slide down the Americas charts, probably falling out after a couple more weeks. Recent releases in PAL, Wonder Boy in Monster Land and Mario Golf, move down a little bit but should stick around for a few more weeks.

Hope you enjoyed the charts this week, hopefully it can continue again as a weekly feature. Thanks to TWRoO and Michael and their helpers for collecting the PAL data. As always, if you want to help collect Nintendo Channel data, send TWRoO a PM if you have a PAL Wii and myself a PM if you have an American or Japanese Wii. As you can tell by the lack of Japanese figures this week, I *really* need a reliable volunteer with a Japanese Wii.

The sneak peek for next week for those who've actually stuck through it to read the entire article: LIT for WiiWare has sold approximately 4,000 in its first week on sale in the Americas.

Keith Jackson
kjackson@vgchartz.com

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scottie (on 22 February 2009)

TWR - Does helping require being able to access the Nintendo channel once a week? I would like to help, but can't do that due to lack of net access for my Wii in term time

DKII (on 21 February 2009)

Actually Nintendo takes close to double that for VC, though the number is close for WiiWare.

Budgets - no idea but most are pretty small.

TWRoO (on 21 February 2009)

@EssosDeeos.... No idea how much they cost to make, it will vary greatly I assume, some of the puzzlers probably cost tiny amounts of money.

And I believe Nintendo gets 30% of the revenue from the 3rd part Virtual Console games.... but I am not certain that is repeated for Wiiware.

EssosDeeos (on 21 February 2009)

TV show king is great for a family game if you've got enough controllers. It's pretty dull on its own.

Question, though this maybe should be a separate forum post - how much do these cost to make (average), and how much of the revenue stays with Nintendo?

dib8rman (on 20 February 2009)

I can't bring myself to understand why TV show king is so appreciated.

TWRoO (on 20 February 2009)

@freetalk.

Punch-Out hasn't even got any Nintendo channel data yet... arguably, if it is a game with very low playtime per person, it could be selling ok (like Pacman only appeared 2 months ago because it is played for only just over 1 hour per person)

And it does occasionally appear in the top 20 for some of the smaller regions... so it is probably not too far under the radar in the larger regions.

Even so, you are correct... it is not really that popular here, the same with Megaman 9, which didn't really make much of an impact here except in Sweden and Norway. (where it still charts high)

DKII (on 20 February 2009)

I had an editorial kicking around in my head wondering if the success of Punchout and Sin & Punishment on VC led to Nintendo green-lighting their sequels. Should revisit that someday if I ever have time. :P

FreeTalkLive (on 20 February 2009)

Super Mario 3 and Super Mario World are amazing but I prefer All-stars :)
If you haven't played Super Mario 3, you are missing out. It is the best stand alone Mario game I've ever played (I've never played Galaxy). I'd say it is easily my favorite NES platformer, also.

OP, interesting numbers. It's good to see my favorite Wiiware game on top in America. Tetris Party is the best Tetris ever made, IMHO. The only thing wrong with it - it's not portable.

It's strange that Punch Out, which has done better in America than any VC game has done in Europe, isn't even in the PAL VC top 20.

DKII (on 20 February 2009)

I actually prefer Super Mario World, but it's 800 points vs. 500 for SMB3.

TWRoO (on 20 February 2009)

Super Mario Bros. 3 is incredible. I might have to get it just to see what the fuss is about. Although I have a huge list of other games I want first.

DKII (on 20 February 2009)

It's a pretty rough estimate, but better than nothing. You can read more in the methodology links.

@famousringo - I usually calculate everything weekly, so in one sense it's better to make 4 articles out of the same amount of work. But I agree you can see more in the monthly charts at times -- though it can make it harder for new releases to chart against the old guard too.

wfz (on 20 February 2009)

Hold on a second, since when were we able to track WiiWare/VC games? I've always heard that it wasn't possible.

VGChartz is amazing! You guys rock!

TWRoO (on 20 February 2009)

My helpers now consist of pimouss, Okr and EssosDeeos is my new friend. Many thanks to them.

If anyone else can help (particularly Australians/N.Z.ers) pleas PM me.

famousringo (on 20 February 2009)

I didn't mind the monthly updates, actually. It gave a good perspective on what games are serious sellers and what games are a flash in the pan. If it's less stress for you, I say go with the monthly schedule.

Mostly just the usual Hudson games + World of Goo holding strong at the top. That's nice start for LIT. I think that 800 point price was a good move on WayForward's part.