Amazon.com Top Sellers

Here’s the current Amazon.com Top Sellers. Looks Like Nintendo still has a reason to make more Mario Party’s as sales still are high for the game, even though its mainly a rehash of more of the same game. (see below) * pre-order

Wii: Mario Party 8 (released on Wed. May 30th) may be the new release this week, but isn’t new to the party. In fact, this is pretty much the same fanfare you’ve seen for the past few years just with Wii connectivity between you and the on-screen mini games. Whether thats good news or bad, I’ll leave it up to you to decide. Personally, I can’t wait til Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes out in Aug.

1. Mario Party 8—Nintendo
2. Wii Play w/ Remote—Nintendo
3. Super Paper Mario—Nintendo
4. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess—Nintendo
5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07—EA
6. Warioware: Smooth Moves—Nintendo
7. Need for Speed Carbon—EA
8. Rayman Raving Rabbids—Ubisoft
9. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree—Nintendo
10. Madden NFL 07—EA

Xbox 360: Forza 2 came out this week as well (also a May 30th release) and so with it, comes the #1 spot. If you have the cash and you got the need, (to speed?) than make sure to pick up this release.

1. Forza Motorsport 2*—Microsoft
2. Halo 3 Legendary Edition*—Microsoft
3. Gears of War—Microsoft
4. Halo 3*—Microsoft
5. Gears of War—Microsoft
6. Guitar Hero II Bundle—Activision
7. Shadowrun— Microsoft
8. Halo 3 Co. Ed*— Microsoft
9. Call of Duty 3—Activision
10. Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars—EA

PS3: In today’s world, 3 weeks as # 1 is pretty cool. For Resistance: Fall of Man its a great spot to be, that is until the next cool game comes along. But, as the PS3 landscape is pretty dry, I wouldn’t be suprised if this was the case for more time, that is until Grand Theft Auto IV arrives in the fall.

1. Resistance: Fall of Man—SCEA
2. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion—Bethesda
3. MotorStorm—SCEA
4. MLB ‘07—SCEA
5. Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End—Buena Vista
6. Spider-Man 3 Co. Ed—Activision
7. Grand Theft Auto IV*—Rockstar
8. Call of Duty 3—Activision
9. Madden NFL 07—EA
10. Virtua Tennis 3—Sega

PS2: Guitar Hero II Bundle seems to have been eclipsed by the newcomer from Atlus, Odin Sphere, now claiming the #1 spot. (although imo, Guitar Hero II is still the number one champ)

1. Odin Sphere—Atlus Software
2. Guitar Hero II Bundle—Activision
3. God of War—SCEA
4. Tomb Raider Anniversary—Eidos
5. God of War II—SCEA
6. Lego Star Wars II—LucasArts
7. Kingdom Hearts II—Square Enix
8. Spider-Man 3—Activision
9. Final Fantasy XII— Square Enix
10. Shadow of the Colossus—SCEA

DS: Diamond & Pearl still keep their spot at the top of the DS charts.

1. Pokemon Diamond—Nintendo
2. Pokemon Pearl—Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros.—Nintendo
4. Brain Age—Nintendo
5. Big Brain Academy—Nintendo
6. Cooking Mama—Majesco
7. Big Brain Academy—Nintendo
8. Mario Kart—Nintendo
9. Animal Crossing: Wild World—Nintendo
10. Nintendogs Labrador Retriever and Friends—Nintendo

PSP: LucasArts’ Star Wars Battlefront II still spitt’n fire for the PSP, while Daxter’s solo outting is holding on # 2.

1. Star Wars Battlefront II—LucasArts
2. Daxter—SCEA
3. GTA: Liberty City Stories—Rockstar
4. MLB 07 The Show—SCEA
5. Burnout Legends—EA
6. GTA: Vice City Stories—Rockstar
7. Fight Night Round 3—EA
8. Namco Museum Battle Collection—Namco
9. SOCOM Fireteam Bravo—SCEA
10. Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters—SCEA

VC Hits 4.7 downloads!

I want my VC!

As CEO Satoru Iwata has stated, “the (VC is the) video game version of Apple’s iTunes Store”… and as reported recently in Next Generation, the VC has reached over 4.7 million downloads of classic games since launch.

Fan Art for the Virtual Console: Certainly has that Nintendo-look doesn’t it?

Nintendo Wii Joins “The Bigs” League

 

Now if you’ve been getting sick of the lack of true realism in Wii Sports, then rest assured Nintendo 3^rd Party companies have realized this drought and are willing to help.

Enter Take-Two’s The BIGS, the first official MLB® Baseball video game to take full advantage of the Nintendo Wii’s motion controls setup for every aspect of batting, pitching, running and fielding.

Now while this summer release is set up to bat for all major systems (Xbox360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii) the excitement over the Wii’s controls has held captive the imagination of baseball fans incorporating both the Wii remote & Wii nunchuk.