Weekly VGChartz sales

Well in a new feature that I am launching here is based on the numbers calculated by the folks over at VGChartz.com.

I will be showing the top 20 games and the console sales for the week. These are worldwide numbers.

1. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)- 349,050
2. Wii Sports (Wii)- 163,980
3. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360)- 157,736
4. Madden NFL 10 (PS3)- 123,745
5. Wolfenstein (Xbox 360)- 118,147
6. Wii Fit (Wii)- 100,020
7. Dragon Quest IX: Protectors of the Starry Sky (DS)- 78,987
8. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)- 74,308
9. Tomodachi Collection (DS)- 73,996
10. Wolftenstein (PS3)- 68,061
11. Pokemon Platinum (DS)- 57,514
12. Madden NFL 10 (PS2)- 54,129
13. Mario Kart DS (DS)- 50,724
14. EA Sports Active (Wii)- 47,784
15. Monster Hunter Tri (Wii)- 45,597
16. Madden NFL 10 (Wii)- 43,419
17. Wii Play (Wii)- 43,328
18. Melty Blood: Actress Again (PS2)- 42,172
19. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)- 40,895
20. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP)- 32,970

Hardware Sales For the Week Ending August 22nd, 2009
DS- 390,664 (-8%) 109,117,778
Wii- 200,865 (-16%) 52,713,140
PSP- 114,436 (-13%) 51,015,420
X360- 111,062 (-6%) 31,525,090
PS3- 81,361 (+5%) 23,322,782
PS2- 66,079 (-5%) 132,493,519

(The numbers on the right side of the parentheses are the total worldwide sales for the platform)
The PS3 saw a 5% increase in sells week over week. Mainly due to the PS3 "fat" models being sold out and that the only market that would have access to the new Slim model was North America on August 24th. Two day after the week ended and only in a select few retail chains. Gamestop and Amazon.com were the only way to get access to the PS3 Slim before the September 1st launch date for every other store in America and Europe. It will be interesting to see what happens when the Slim numbers get calculated.

9 years on the market and the PS2 is still doing pretty well, but as you can see the price drop it had early in April this year has seemed to have faded.

DS for another week nears the 400k for the week. This handheld is just a sales beast. Unbelievable.
Wii Sports Resort back on top after being dethroned last week by the 360 verison of Madden NFL 10.

For the week the PS3 was the only system to see an increase, but 5% was not enough to offset every other system seeing a drop. Consoles as a whole dropped 9% since last week.