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Australian sales charts - W/E 20th December

Posted 30th of December, 2009 at 01:17 pm by Dave Dave is offline


GFK took a well-earned break over Christmas, but you didn't miss much.
Mario Kart Wii and Cricket played swapsies, as did The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, while families Just Danced in the Christmas spirit.





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Posted 30th of December, 2009 at 04:03 pm by Infernal Monkey Infernal Monkey is online now
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Also, kinda surprising to see the Avatar game struggling to sell.
Posted 30th of December, 2009 at 04:56 pm by Parasyte Parasyte is offline
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Where the hell is Rock Band? I thought it would have topped the charts easily...
Posted 30th of December, 2009 at 05:07 pm by Bjay
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Wii continuing to dominate the charts I see.
Posted 30th of December, 2009 at 05:35 pm by JPW JPW is offline
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Also, kinda surprising to see the Avatar game struggling to sell.
You do know that despite one particular title. (Goldeneye 007 in case I had to remind you.) That all movie conversions suck right? It looks like people are finally going against the bandwagon. Just because it's a good movie does it mean you have to buy the game. They're not falling for it anymore.
If you want a good movie conversion to sell you have to put the work in.

What's surprising is that only two titles seemed to of gone against Nintendo this christmas. And neither of them got anywhere close to the top 5. Sad but true.

Then again the lineup has been a bit lacking in Australia maybe that's the reason why people keep on buying Nintendo games. Not to mention PS3 and Xbox games are still costing a fortune.

You want to hear something really sad unless someone makes a bid for Prototype in the next 3 hours on Ebay i'm going to get it for $31.
Posted 30th of December, 2009 at 06:25 pm by futurefrog futurefrog is offline
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wii sports resort what theeee...
Posted 30th of December, 2009 at 06:44 pm by Aladdin Sane Aladdin Sane is offline
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You do know that despite one particular title. (Goldeneye 007 in case I had to remind you.) That all movie conversions suck right?
Bullshit. A good number of platformers based on Disney movies developed by either Capcom or Virgin in the 8- and 16-bit era were really quite good, too. A large number of licenced games are kinda shitty, but that doesn't mean they all are (or that they fail to sell, regardless of quality).
Posted 31st of December, 2009 at 09:55 am by maj
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Bullshit. A good number of platformers based on Disney movies developed by either Capcom or Virgin in the 8- and 16-bit era were really quite good, too. A large number of licenced games are kinda shitty, but that doesn't mean they all are (or that they fail to sell, regardless of quality).
lion kingggggggggggggg. actually for some reason despite remembering that game being good, i can't remember the game itself.
Posted 31st of December, 2009 at 10:28 am by Mop Mop is offline
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Bullshit. A good number of platformers based on Disney movies developed by either Capcom or Virgin in the 8- and 16-bit era were really quite good, too. A large number of licenced games are kinda shitty, but that doesn't mean they all are (or that they fail to sell, regardless of quality).
Agreed. Aladdin on the Sega Mega Drive is one of the best plat-forming games I've ever played.

On an even crazier note, the Neo Geo adaptation of the movie Double Dragon (yes, the movie) is actually a really solid fighting game.

Overwhelmingly, a large number of licensed games are terrible, but are we all forgetting that the majority of all video games in existence aren't that good.
Posted 2nd of January, 2010 at 12:58 am by Gookanheimer Gookanheimer is offline
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You do know that despite one particular title. (Goldeneye 007 in case I had to remind you.) That all movie conversions suck right?
I found it funniest who he was saying it to.
Posted 4th of January, 2010 at 10:08 am by Bland_Boy Bland_Boy is offline
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These top-seller lists are just depressing.
Most are sequels to sequels of sequels.