Sony’s making bold claims that sales of its Playstation 3 jumped 130 percent over Christmas. Quite what that means in actual sales I’m not sure. Microsoft have hit back by saying sales of the Xbox 360 are still tracking 8 million units ahead of the PS3. Buy the Playstation 3 now New: Buy a Playstation 3 bundle from Amazon.com
The World of Warcraft expansion pack The Lich King is officially the fastest selling PC game ever. It sold over 2.8 million copies in 24 hours – that’s a lot of people not coming out of their houses over the next few months. Related: World of Warcraft vs Playstation Home, Age of Conan sales figures
Nintendo’s fitness craze returns to the number one spot once again, managing to knock the mighty Soul Calibur IV down to number two. With seven Nintendo system games in the top ten is anything going to stop the enormous sales success of Wii and DS this year? Related: Wii Fit Review, Wii Fit Candid Video
Nintendo’s Wii Fit unsurprisingly went straight to number one in the All Formats chart last week selling over 1 million units but can it hold off the competition from the mighty Grand Theft Auto IV? We think that the extra effort and manufacture needed to produce the Wii’s Balance Board mean that overall availability of Wii Fit stock will be lower than GTA4 which does not come bundled with any hardware. Related: Wii Fit review, Wii Fit Prizefighter, Wii Fit review
Super Mario Galaxy’s become the highest rated game of all time according to Gamerankings.com,. I’m off to New York this week so will give you a full review next week when I ‘m back but for now, be safe in the knowledge it’s very very good with it overtaking by point 2 percent another Nintendo game, Ocarina of Time on the N64.