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LEGO BATMAN: The Videogame sells over one million copies in the UK

January 25th, 2010 Desktop General

Warner Bros announced that LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame has sold through more than one million copies across all formats in the UK, since launch in 2008, and continues to be a top-seller week-over-week on the UK charts.

LEGO Batman: The Videogame – developed by TT Games, makers of LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones, LEGO Rock Band™ and LEGO Harry Potter™ – combines trademark LEGO charm and imaginative gameplay with one of the world’s largest entertainment properties to create a runaway success. The title received critical acclaim, subsequently winning a coveted Children’s BAFTA Award for Best Videogame.

LEGO Batman: The Videogame brings the one-and-only CAPED CRUSADER to life in a completely original storyline. Players can take control of the DYNAMIC DUO, BATMAN and ROBIN, to fight GOTHAM CITY’S most notorious criminals including THE JOKER, THE PENGUIN, CATWOMAN, SCARECROW, KILLER CROC and many more.

“The team at TT Games worked incredibly hard to make LEGO Batman: The Videogame a very fun experience for players,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. “We are delighted to know that so many people are enjoying the game.”

“Selling one million units of LEGO Batman: The Videogame in the UK marks a great milestone for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment,” said Spencer Crossley, UK Sales and Marketing Director, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “The fact that the title continues to remain on the best-selling charts more than a year after its release is a testament to the best-in-class gameplay TT Games continues to deliver.”

LEGO Batman: The Videogame is available for Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS, PSP and PC.

For more information, visit the official website at http://www.legobatmangame.com/

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Nintendo finishes 2009 with multiple sales records

January 17th, 2010 Desktop General

Wii Has the Best Month in Video Game History, Nintendo DS Has the Best Calendar Year of All Time

A holiday shopping frenzy helped both of Nintendo’s video game systems make history: Nintendo’s Wii™ home system sold more than 3.8 million units in December, a new all-time single-month U.S. sales record. The Nintendo DS™ Lite and Nintendo DSi™ hand-held systems combined to sell more than 3.3 million, the second biggest month in U.S. history.

Those strong December numbers helped propel the Nintendo DS franchise to more than 11.2 million sold in 2009, a new U.S. calendar-year sales record for any video game system – ever. The Wii console finished 2009 with 9.6 million sold. Of all the Wii consoles ever sold in the United States since its November 2006 launch, nearly one-fifth (18.7 percent) were sold during November and December 2009.

“Wii, Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi combined to sell more than 7 million units in the month of December alone,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Clearly there is overwhelming consumer demand for fun games, motion controls and value. This remarkable hardware sales surge presents a tremendous software opportunity for Nintendo and its third-party partners as we head into 2010.”

Lifetime U.S. sales for Wii have now surpassed 27.2 million units. No other home console has ever sold so many so quickly. Lifetime U.S. sales for the Nintendo DS franchise have topped 38.8 million units, surpassing lifetime sales of the Game Boy™ Advance franchise.

As always, great software drives hardware sales. In December alone, consumers placed six Nintendo games in the top 10 best-sellers of the month. These include New Super Mario Bros.™ Wii at No. 1 with more than 2.8 million sold, Wii Sports Resort™ at No. 2 with more than 1.7 million sold, Wii Fit™ Plus with the Wii Balance Board™ accessory at No. 3 with more than 1.7 million sold, Wii Play™ at No. 6 with more than 1.0 million sold, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 7 with more than 936,000 sold and Mario & Luigi™: Bowser’s Inside Story for Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi at No. 10 with more than 656,000 sold.

For all of 2009, Nintendo finished with seven of the top 10 best-selling games of the year. These include New Super Mario Bros. Wii at No. 2 with more than 4.2 million sold, Wii Sports Resort at No. 3 with more than 4.2 million sold, Wii Fit™ at No. 4 with more than 3.5 million sold, Mario Kart Wii at No. 5 with nearly 3.1 million sold, Wii Play at No. 6 with more than 3.1 million sold, Wii Fit Plus™ at No. 8 with more than 2.4 million sold and Pokémon™ Platinum Version at No. 10 with more than 2.0 million sold.

All numbers contained in this document are according to the NPD Group, which tracks U.S. video game sales.

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