We're big fans of Mario Golf: World Tour here at Nintendo Life. Beautifully constructed, well balanced and full of offline and online content, it delivers a top-notch experience on the 3DS. Unfortunately it's only had a modest start in the UK charts following its release on 2nd May, actually coming in lower on its début than some other releases on the handheld so far in 2014.
In the single-format stakes World Tour comes in 18th place — insert your own 18th hole pun here — and is the only game on a Nintendo system in that top 40. The all-format chart brings more disappointing news, as a series of multi-platform titles — old and new — push the new golf title down to 22nd place. Overall, in that sense, it's been an underwhelming launch, with this one struggling to make a notable impact in its first weekend.
We praised this to the hills in our Mario Golf: World Tour review, so hopefully this will gain some momentum in the coming weeks and months.
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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No Nintendo Life Tournament / Community Code for this game yet?
Can't find it in any shops in my town,so no suprise.
@potomas What the heck you would think most stores would have the sense to stock this
Waiting till its £20 or maybe £15 got to many games to play and the added cost of doc put me off getting this straight away also MK8 is out soon.
I'm really curious to see the US numbers since Nintendo decided to release this the same day as Kirby. Should keep both low in the rankings.
Guess we'll see in a few weeks which sells better in the UK.
My guess is Kirby wins both.
@Jazzer94 Thing about that is even then it still costs a minimum of £30 with the DLC.
@rjejr I suspect the price of Kirby will go down fairly steadily. (The Wii version costs lots new so they will print too many). Yoshi's New Island is already at just over half of its RRP. I suspect Kirby will be similar. (But for different reasons). By comparison a used copy of NSMB2 cannot be obtained very easily below 75% of its RRP. Be interesting how Kirby does when compared to Yoshi (Just see how much the IGN scores affect the UK).
@unrandomsam And it would cost me over forty pounds if I brought it now so what's your point?
Disappointed this has struggled, but thrilled to see Child of Light in the top 10, since surely the digital sales would far eclipse the physical release of the deluxe edition.
@Rosalina we'll going to be announcing that very soon!
@rjejr
It depends, because I actually picked up both as they would arrive together. Paid $30 for each, so definitely Mario Golf will benefit from its cheaper initial price.
Hmm, now here's my question, these numbers don't factor in digital sales, do they? I for one bought the game digital, it's one of those kind of games you'll always want to have on you.
I'm sick of that picture now, NL has used it for at least 4 articles lol.
Skipped this game as I'm not a fan of golf.
I'm yet to see an advert for Mario Golf so it's hardly surprising that sales are low. It's a shame really because it's a great game. Xbox and Sony are constantly advertised all over the place. Why don't Nintendo start doing the same? They need to wake up and realise that their strategies are failing.
I got this from Amazon for £27. Been playing over the weekend and it's great value for a great game IMO.
@Theober555 exactly the same with me still gonna get MK8 though. Tbh the amount of people with exams that wouldn't buy games because of that is probably significantly lower most people don't try xp
Everyone in UK is saving themselves for MK8.
@Theober555 ill probably allow myself an hour or two a week until I finish I just can't afford to get addicted to it
Shame because it's an amazing game. Loving it so far
I said I wont buy it because of DLCs and all but... I couldn't resist..
And I'm soooooo glad I bought it... digital version with season pass
this game is so much fun
@Emblem I'm sick of seeing Mario's face in general.
Maybe that's a reason for poor overall sales.
@Nintenjoe64 I sure ain't. It'll probably falter the same way 3D World did.
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