@Just_Ben, "Brain Training was by far Game of the Week in the last Chart Track sales update from the UK, selling more copies across a seven-day period than any other in the country. However, this week the big winner is Mario & Sonic on Wii, thanks to Sega’s on-going marketing campaign. The game has topped the All Formats chart, beating the No.2 game by just 330 sales units, rising 39% over last week’s total (which itself had been a new record for the fastest selling Wii game over seven days – seems that record did not last long and the bar has been set much higher!). Retailer bundles also helped the Olympic-themed title, making it Sonic’s first No.1 since Sonic Mega Collection Plus back at the start of 2005 and Mario’s first since way back in 2002 when Super Mario Sunshine hit the top on GameCube." - link
"The game’s sudden rise to the top can be attributed in large part to its inclusion in several unofficial retail hardware bundles – generally the only way the supply constrained Wii is now sold in the UK. Similar bundles also accounted for the sudden re-appearance of Mario Party 8 at number four in the charts, as well as Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 at number twenty." - link
Okay so perhaps i exagerated on the impact of the retailer bundles, however the fact it is #1 in UK for first week in December is still not to be overlooked. Coupled with the 330,000 sold in the USA in November, the game is probably over 1 mil already. Also, being number 1 in the UK for a week...how many games does that mean?
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"Brain Training was by far Game of the Week in the last Chart Track sales update from the UK, selling more copies across a seven-day period than any other in the country. However, this week the big winner is Mario & Sonic on Wii, thanks to Sega’s on-going marketing campaign. The game has topped the All Formats chart, beating the No.2 game by just 330 sales units, rising 39% over last week’s total (which itself had been a new record for the fastest selling Wii game over seven days – seems that record did not last long and the bar has been set much higher!). Retailer bundles also helped the Olympic-themed title, making it Sonic’s first No.1 since Sonic Mega Collection Plus back at the start of 2005 and Mario’s first since way back in 2002 when Super Mario Sunshine hit the top on GameCube." - link
"The game’s sudden rise to the top can be attributed in large part to its inclusion in several unofficial retail hardware bundles – generally the only way the supply constrained Wii is now sold in the UK. Similar bundles also accounted for the sudden re-appearance of Mario Party 8 at number four in the charts, as well as Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 at number twenty." - link
Okay so perhaps i exagerated on the impact of the retailer bundles, however the fact it is #1 in UK for first week in December is still not to be overlooked. Coupled with the 330,000 sold in the USA in November, the game is probably over 1 mil already. Also, being number 1 in the UK for a week...how many games does that mean?