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Wii Sports Resort Debuts At Number One
Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort has followed up on its successful Japanese release by debuting atop the UK all formats chart for the week ended July 25.
Released on Friday, the Wii MotionPlus enabled title recorded the fourth biggest launch week for a Wii game, behind only Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Mario & Sonic At The Olympics.
Last week’s bestseller, Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, slipped one spot to second in its fourth week on the chart.
Tiger Wood PGA Tour 10 and Wii Fit were non movers in third and fourth, while Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen fell three places to fifth.
Fight Night Round 4, Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood and The Sims 3 all slid one position, as Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and EA Sports Active held ninth and tenth.
01. Wii Sports Resort - Nintendo
02. Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince – EA
03. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 – EA
04. Wii Fit – Nintendo
05. Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen – Activision
06. Fight Night Round 4 – EA
07. Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood – Ubisoft
08. The Sims 3 – EA
09. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – Activision
10. EA Sports Active – EA
Source: GfK Chart-Track.
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UK 2009 Chart History.
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if you "forget" that the wii "should have" had this precise motion detection upon release, and you just dive in the game, you soon forget about this.
to expensive or not, i'm glad they did it, as the wii motion plus really improves upon the gameplay. on wii sports, i was verry dissapointed with wii bowling, as i coud not throw effects like i'd expected it should be. the new add on, and the new wii sports resort gives me the controlls i'd thought it would have from the start. after diving in, i found myself having a good time. also the other elements are done extremely well. i never thought the wiimote and nunchuck controller would give a proper "archery" feeling ! two thumbs up for nintendo. now all i need is a proper racegame with this new motion controller in it, and a bigger wheel than the one that came with mariokart. wonder houw that would work out....
I agree that the game looks good, much better than the bundled Wii Sports, but I am slightly reluctant to spend over £50 for the game plus another Motion Plus unit just for the control that probably should have been built into the controllers when I bought the Wii.
It was too expensive to incorporate it at launch. Reggie and Iwata have said that countless times.
Fair point, I didn't realise that, I had incorrectly assumed it was that they didn't have the technology ready and wanted to launch the Wii anyway.
I've bought it and it's a lot of fun, well worth getting. About the only game I don't like is the cycling, but my daughter loves it, probably coz she kicked my ass :D
Totally agree with you about the cycling, but at least it's not the waggle-fest of Mario at the Olympics. The game I was most dubious about was the frisbee, but the controls are so good and so intuitive that it's quite good fun - and the frisbee golf is great fun with friends.
Wii Sports Resort is an incredible game. The swordfighting is perfect and captures 1:1 movement amazingly well. I've no doubt this will be (yet another) evergreen title for the Wii. It also finally heralds a new era of waggle-free gaming. Can we now finally have a Lighsaber game please?