Super Mario Maker had a strong start in its debut week in the UK charts, securing second place against some tough competition. It was a good early result for the Wii U exclusive, which is likely to remain a key title for the system in the remainder of 2015.
Its second week has, however, brought a predictable and understandable drop. A combination of new releases (particularly Destiny: The Taken King, Forza Motorsport 6 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2016) and the usual second week drop-off have seen the level-creation tool fall from 2nd to 6th place in both the all-format and single-format results. Its second week sales were down 56% on its launch week results.
Unfortunately Super Mario Maker is the only Nintendo title (or system exclusive of any kind) to make it into the UK all-format top 40, which is a reflection of the company's struggles and limited new releases in the country. That means Splatoon has dropped out after a strong run since late May, and despite having enjoyed a boost alongside the Super Mario Maker launch last week.
Switching over to the single-format top 40 does bring a little respite, however, with Mario Kart 8 in 37th place and Splatoon in 38th position, though no Wii U or 3DS multi-platform iterations of third-party games make it.
It's a respectable, perhaps strong, showing from Super Mario Maker in its second week, even if the broader top 40 makes grim reading for the big N.
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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A 56% drop is great news. It's normal for a big title, even a Nintendo title to drop 75-85 percent in the second week. Nothing wrong with getting outsold by new releases either because week 1 sales are so huge.
Not sure if great news for a Mario game, but I'm curious about Christmas' sales.
I hope Project Zero/Fatal Frame does good, it's the only game I'm concerned about, because it's been a long way for it to be released outside Japan. Probably if we hadn't complain time and time again we wouldn't be able to (legally) play it.
I love Mario but Nintendo is focusing on Mario too much, leaving most of their other series unattended. Where are Wave Race (my favourite GameCube game) and F-Zero?
Happy to see rugby league live 3 debut in the charts.
I've to this day never met anyone who plays Destiny. I'm surprised it's doing so well. Guess it's all the hype it got.
@whodatninja its actually a very good game. the main complaint before were the end game which they somehow manage to fix already. but you are correct you dont hear very much from those who played the game. the more common people I constantly hear are those who bash or discredit the game without even having played it (not pertaining to you if I somehow give that impression). very sad actually.
Any reason why an actual chart (even if just the top ten) isn't included in the post? Sometimes at a glance information is easier to read alongside plain text.
@kobashi100 Should probably make the most of it whole you can
@VanillaLake
It's Mario, it'll definitely sell over the holidays.
Everyone in the UK with a Wii U has purchased Splatoon already
It's Mario, it'll last awhile.
Remember, this doesn't include download sales! If it did, there's a possibility that Super Mario Maker could be higher than 6th place! It's stupid that download sales aren't counted!
Sounds like a positive result. Surely, game like SMM will have long legs, even more than regular Mario game I suppose, as the available content will keep growing and growing.
@VanillaLake I also miss wave race and 1080
@123akis that's just the way it is. It could potentially be worse, I'd imagine the other systems have strong digital sales. I'm happy it's still up there with the other big hitters the game is great
@sandman89 @VanillaLake I could probably play a new Wave Race game for every console release myself if they kept on dishing them out (and ExciteTruck/Bots as well). Unfortunately, if behind-the-scenes stories are to be believed the key developers that created Wave Race and 1080 are long gone from Nintendo after being treated poorly during the failed development of Project HAMMER on Wii.
@123akis
There's a distinct possibility it could be lower too as all the other games in the chart are available digitally.
@Gamer83 Yeah.
@sandman89 I'm happy that I'm not alone.
@Nintendo Bring Wave Race back!
@aaronsullivan I have no idea about that, to be honest. If Nintendo doesn't take care of the developers of those amazing wave physics then Nintendo is dumb, once again. Those people are genius, the game is brilliant, I also love its soundtrack. If you take into account that Nintendo didn't appreciate what Rare was, I don't know what Nintendo really is. Sometimes I feel like they think they can be fine with Mario alone, and even Mario gets mediocre games because they change its developers (New Super Mario Bros. 2).
After all these years, I have reached one clear conclusion: Nintendo doesn't deserve its devoted fans (including myself).
I'd like to know how many wii-u Super Mario maker console bundles they sold. Wanted to get one but it didn't feel limited edtion enough for me so I didn't bother. As I've all ready have one.
I hope the overall sales for the game turns out to be a decent number, because the game really is brilliant. Both as a game, and a level creation tool. I love everything about it.
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