In recent weeks we've seen some happier times for Nintendo in the UK, as evergreen releases have established themselves in the top 40 charts thanks to a variety of factors - namely Pokémon GO mania, competitive prices and some solid advertising campaigns.
That trend continues in the latest Chart-Track results. The highest entry is Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, which has enjoyed some decent sales before and during the event in Brazil; it's 16th in the all-format chart, though that's mostly off the back of Wii U version sales. The only other Wii U representative in the top 40 is Minecraft: Wii U Edition, which climbed up seven places to 31st in the all-format chart.
New Super Mario Bros. 2 continues its slightly surprising rise, perhaps benefitting from price promotions and its 2DS bundle; it jumped 16 places last week to end up as the best-selling 3DS game and 17th in the all-format results. Next up on 3DS was Tomodachi Life, climbing three places to 23rd.
Pokémon mania is starting to fade a little, but nevertheless Pokémon Omega Ruby is still in 24th place, with Alpha Sapphire down in 35th.
Monster Hunter Generations is on its way out, it seems, having dropped down to 40th place in the all-format charts (34th single format). If you switch to single-format charts a couple of other 3DS titles sneak in, with Mario Kart 7 in 35th and Yo-kai Watch in 40th.
Overall there have been some positive results for Nintendo UK during the summer, despite the limited number of high profile new releases over the past couple of months.
[source chart-track.co.uk]
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I can imagine people looking to play proper Pokemon games are picking up the 2DS with NSMB2 pre-installed. New Super Mario Bros. 2 is actually currently getting television ads, believe it or not.
I still enjoy collecting coins towards the 10-million coin reward, glad to see NSMB2 do well still.
@buildz I enjoyed the game too actually, even though it got a lot of flack! I bought all the DLC too.
@MJInnocent I'm missing 3 packs, but I'm planning on getting them all anyway. I agree, it doesn't deserve some of the hate it got.
New Super Mario Bros 2 is one of my favorite 3DS titles it has a ton of replay ability, definitely in my top 5 titles for the system.
Yeah, 2DS effect in play. 2DS fixes a lot of the problems that 3DS models have, and if you can find the New SMB 2 bundle, it's a great deal.
This game is four years old and it is still charting and is being advertised.
Ah...Instant Classic.
A Basic Platformer game that should be owned.
NSMB2 was meh for me. I'm pretty sure I sold after I beat it to get Splatoon or something. Maybe I should give it another chance?
Enjoyed NSMB2, was fun participating in their one million coins challenge.
@shaneoh I figured we'd get something great for getting a million coins... THAT was disappointing! Still fun collecting them though!
NSMB2 is my favorite game in the New series. Raccoon Mario is the best power-up and Gold Mario is pretty great too.
Why "believe it or not"? New Super Mario Bros. 2 is an excellent game, and the money rush mode could have revolutionized the franchise with proper online leaderboards.
@Simbabbad because it's four years old?
I dont know what you people think but I think NSMB2 is easily the worst out of all 4 NSM games.....The original for the DS is easily #1 and the Wii U one is #2 and the Wii game is #3
@Phil_Kavadias ....What?
@Phil_Kavadias Monster Hunter has always been like that.
@buildz it was a fun game, it gets undue hate.
@MJInnocent how did that matter for previous NSMB titles? For how many years did the first NSMB title sell? The whole generation? How is NSMB2's success a "believe is or not" surprise?
@Simbabbad because it's four years old and it hasn't consistently been in the charts recently, so I imagine if you asked anyone what they currently reckoned was the highest ranking Nintendo title on weekly sales chart, NSMB2 would not be their answer.
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