Americas Sales Chart, Feb 21-27: It Does Look Like Rain...

[GlueGun18]

SOFTWARE TOP 20
1) Heavy Rain (PS3) - 208,596 (208,596)
2) New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 113,456 (5,736,562)
3) Aliens vs Predator (X360) - 90,692 (297,644)
4) BioShock 2 (X360) - 89,723 (622,981)
5) Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 82,747 (4,702,338)
6) Just Dance (Wii) - 65,983 (741,656)
7) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (X360) - 55,586 (6,637,474)
8) Aliens vs Predator (PS3) - 55,275 (183,321)
9) Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 52,597 (5,913,865)
10) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) - 42,684 (3,616,254)
11) Endless Ocean: Blue World (Wii) - 42,399 (42,399)
12) BioShock 2 (PS3) - 38,041 (261,567)
13) Mass Effect 2 (X360) - 36,784 (1,113,584)
14) Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 36,221 (9,386,622)
15) Dante's Inferno (PS3) - 35,977 (236,035)
16) Dante's Inferno (X360) - 34,690 (224,109)
17) New Super Mario Bros. (DS) - 27,245 (8,176,184)
18) Darksiders (PS3) - 26,032 (274,294)
19) MAG: Massive Action Game (PS3) - 23,886 (396,470)
20) Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii) - 22,230 (1,251,420)

HARDWARE
Nintendo Wii - 133,702 (32,080,002)
Nintendo DS - 124,863 (45,359,225)
Xbox 360 - 99,052 (22,164,635)
PlayStation 3 - 92,216 (13,036,770)
Sony PSP - 26,152 (19,096,079)
PlayStation 2 - 13,317 (51,878,334)
Source

Notes:
- Heavy Rain was also the top-selling game in the world this week, moving 478k copies worldwide.
- BioShock 2 has already sold more copies on PS3 than the first BioShock in the Americas.
- In a rare role reversal (yay for alliteration!), the PS3 sold more software than the Xbox 360 this week in the Americas (1.08 million to 1.02 million).
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the first PS3 game to sell 7 million copies worldwide.
- Wii Sports Resort has sold 14 million copies worldwide, the 4th Wii game to do so.
- Saints Row 2 is the 56th Xbox 360 title to sell more than 1 million units in the Americas.
- Next week's major releases: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3,X360), MLB 10: The Show (PS3), Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (PSP), Major League Baseball 2K10 (PS2,PS3,X360,Wii,DS,PSP)

Debuts:
- Heavy Rain (PS3) - 208,596 (#1)
- Endless Ocean: Blue World (Wii) - 42,399 (#11)
- Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (Wii) - 20,498 (#22)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia (DS) - 19,841 (#24)
- Deadly Premonition (X360) - 13,409 (#40)
- Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing with Banjo-Kazooie (X360) - 10,432 (#61)
- Risen (X360) - 8,582 (#81)
- Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (DS) - 7,765 (#95)
- Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (PS3) - 7,419 (#102)
- Last Rebellion (PS3) - 5,850 (#141)
- Metal Slug XX (PSP) - 4,790 (#189)

TOP 10 PREORDERS
1) Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (X360) - 435,916
2) God of War III (PS3) - 405,802
3) Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3) - 314,047
4) Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver (DS) - 298,601
5) Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) - 295,498
6) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (X360) - 163,052
7) Final Fantasy XIII (X360) - 119,090
8) Madden NFL 11 (PS3) - 55,737
9) Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) - 55,045
10) Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 51,946

[Snakey]

Wow. I wasn't expecting such strong figures for Heavy Rain.

[LemonManX]

Neither was I. I figured the idiotic gamers of today would skip over it in favour of Modern Warfare 2 or some other mindless game. But they have rallied and supported it.

I salute you, Heavy Rain. In fact... I'm going to go and play you right now.

[GlueGun18]

Also interesting to note that Darksiders and Dante's Inferno are selling better on the PS3 than the 360 so far despite only having 60% of the hardware base, while BioShock 2 is heavily favored on Xbox 360. I guess it sort of solidifies that the 360 is definitely a shooter-centric console.

[LemonManX]

I found it interesting in general to see PS3 games in the Top 20. Not saying they always sell bad. But usually they don't linger too long in the top part of the charts.

PS3 is on the rise still, if only slowly.

[Rooster]

Sonic & SEGA All-Star Racing With Banjo-Kazooie? Geez, could they make that title any longer? Why mention exclusive characters in the title? Why not just mention that they're available on the box?

Oh, yah for Heavy Rain while I'm at it. Still kinda on the fence about it, doesn't look like my type of game. Then again I'll try anything once.

[Wiiwillrockyou]

Rooster Wrote:Sonic & SEGA All-Star Racing With Banjo-Kazooie? Geez, could they make that title any longer? Why mention exclusive characters in the title? Why not just mention that they're available on the box?

It is a long title.

Almost as long as:
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia

[LemonManX]

Ironically, neither games are worth touching.

[Kindrik]

LemonManX Wrote:Ironically, neither games are worth touching.

Actually, from what I've heard S&SASR is a good kart racer.