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Submitted from Videogame2play

Here are the top ten games for Wii, PS3 & Xbox 360 this week in America, followed by notes on the interesting data for the week:

Wii

1. Wii Play
2. Madden
3. Mario Strikers Charged
4. Mario Party 8
5. Resident Evil 4
6. Twilight Princess
7. Boogie
8. Super Paper Mario
9. Big Brain Academy
10. Wario Ware: Smooth Moves

Xbox 360

1. Madden NFL 2008
2. Guitar Hero II
3. NCAA Football 2008
4. Tom Clancy: R6 - Vegas
5. Gears of War
6. Forza Motorsport 2
7. Overlord
8. Nascar 2008
9. GRAW 2
10. Pirates of the Caribbean

PS3

1. Madden NFL 2008
2. Motorstorm
3. Tom Clancy: R6 - Vegas
4. Resistance: Fall of Man
5. Ninja Gaiden Sigma
6. NCAA Football 2008
7. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
8. Nascar 2008
9. Fight Night Round 3
10. The Darkness

Notes

• *Madden NFL 2008 sold roughly 1.8 million copies in one week. The game is going to do at least 3.0 million units across all platforms. The Wii, Xbox, GC and PSP versions - combined - accounted for fewer than 10% of the 1.6 million. By an overwhelming number, the 360 and PS2 versions sold best, with the PS3 version emerging with a decent debut.
• *Nintendogs is in the top twenty - two years after release.
• *Mario Party 8 is closing in on 1 million units. Wii Play and Twilight Princess are closing in one 2 million units.
• *Persona 3 and Rune Factory: Harvest Moon DS had better debuts than I expected. Luminous Arc and the Heroes of Mana did worse than I expected.
• *Despite nearly 1 million units sold in one week, Madden did not drive 360 sales significantly higher than last week. The same is true for PS3.
• *Motorstorm sales were just over 15,000 units this week. Since the Motorstorm data in the chart includes Motorstorm sales with the new PS3 SKU that means the new PS3 SKU sold at most 15,000 units. Since PS3 sold 47,000 units this week, that means the new PS3 SKU has yet to account for even 1/3 of PS3 hardware sales.
• *This week Activision was only the third largest publisher of games.
• *In the top 200 charts this week, there were 21 Xbox 360 titles, 10 Wii titles, and 4 PS3 titles to have sold over 250,000 units lifetime.
• *A total of 12,862,636 current generation consoles (Wii, PS3, 360) have been sold in the Americas. To date, Xbox 360 accounts for 52.5% market share, Wii accounts for 33.0% market share, and PS3 accounts for 14.5% market share in the Americas.

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