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Filed under: News

It’s not surprising to see that hardware sales rose significantly in December, but what is surprising is the comparatively small progress made by the Wii — only a 5% increase from November, compared to some big gains for the competition. People who are paid a lot more than us predicted the Wii would smash the 3 million sales barrier, but nope. We’re putting this down to a lack of holiday season supply, or November’s figures simply being amazing.

On the other hand, selling 2.15 million of anything in a single month isn’t too shabby!

- DS: 3.04m 1.47m (94%)
- Wii: 2.15m 110K (5%)
- Xbox 360: 1.44m 604K (72%)
- PSP: 1.02m 599K (142%)
- PS3: 726K 348K (92%)
- PS2: 410K 204K (99%)

December’s best-selling games are past the fold, along with 2008’s top sellers. Spoiler: Nintendo software kicked ass.
Top 10 games of December 2008

1. Wii Play — Wii — Nintendo — 1.46 million
2. Call of Duty: World at War — Xbox 360 — Activision — 1.33 million*
3. Wii Fit – Wii — Nintendo — 999K
4. Mario Kart Wii — Wii — Nintendo — 979K
5. Guitar Hero: World Tour — Wii — Activision — 850K*
6. Gears of War 2 — Xbox 360 — Microsoft — 745K*
7. Left 4 Dead — Xbox 360 — Electronic Arts — 629K
8. Mario Kart — DS — Nintendo — 540K
9. Call of Duty: World at War — PS3 — Activision — 533K
10. Animal Crossing: City Folk — Wii — Nintendo — 497K*

Top 10 games of 2008

1. Wii Play — Wii — Nintendo — 5.28 million
2. Mario Kart Wii — Wii — Nintendo — 5.00 million
3. Wii Fit — Wii — Nintendo — 4.53 million
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl — Wii — Nintendo — 4.17 million
5. Grand Theft Auto IV — Xbox 360 — Take–Two — 3.29 million*
6. Call of Duty: World at War — Xbox 360 — Activision — 2.75 million*
7. Gears of War 2 — Xbox 360 — Microsoft — 2.31 million*
8. Grand Theft Auto IV — PS3 — Take–Two — 1.89 million*
9. Madden NFL ‘09 — Xbox 360 — Electronic Arts — 1.87 million*
10. Mario Kart — DS — Nintendo — 1.65 million

* Includes collector’s, limited, and bundled editions.

December NPD: Slowdown originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: News, Sales

If you’re one of the eight individuals on the planet yet to acquire Guitar Hero Something, roughly now would be a good time to start. In a heartwarming display of post-festive cheer bid to rid itself of excess stock, the troubled Circuit City is offering savings on two Guitar Hero game/guitar bundles: Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, both for $47.99.

Alternatively, if you’re a grizzled, orange-button-happy Guitar Hero veteran whose home and life is being gradually consumed by plastic peripherals, Amazon is willing to sell you Guitar Hero World Tour for $34.99 — sans another instrument.

Source: Guitar Hero III Wireless Bundle
Source: Guitar Hero Aerosmith Special Edition Wireless Bundle
Source: Guitar Hero World Tour

[Via Punch Jump]

Deals for Guitar Heroes of all levels originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: News

For all of you guitar heroes out there, Activision is offering up two free tracks for Guitar Hero: World Tour from none other than Jersey native, Bruce Springsteen. Available from January 27 to February 4, the two free tracks are “My Lucky Day,” which is a little tune from his new album Working on a Dream, as well as “Born to Run,” which is one of his more classic numbers.

As usual, you can find videos for each of the tracks past the break.

Free Springsteen tracks coming to World Tour originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Wii Warm Up

What the heck — let’s talk about Guitar Hero all weekend long. Today, we want to compare it with that head-to-head competitor, Rock Band. Before, we had fake band versus fake guitar god, but now the two games are on more of an even footing. If you’ve played both, do you clearly prefer one over the other, or is one fake set of instruments pretty much like any other? Does it come down to available tracks?

Wii Warm Up: GHWT vs. Rock Band originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Reviews, Video

For his latest Zero Punctuation review, renowned intertubes misanthrope Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw has cast his jaded eye over Activision’s Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Things start off well between reviewer and game (though Rock Band’s troubled relationship with Australia undoubtedly has something to do with this) but Yahtzee soon finds assorted holes to pick at, with some of his targets including the pointlessness of Spanish language songs in an English language release, the new slide bar on World Tour’s guitars, and the game’s credentials as a karaoke simulator. Hit up The Escapist for the review in full or simply jump past the break.

Guitar Hero World Tour gets Yahtzeed originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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