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A “press release” claiming to announce a Wii download called Wii Want More isn’t exactly kosher, according to Nintendo UK.

“I expect it to be false,” a rep told videogaming247 this morning.

The release – which has caused a storm of controversy on the web in the last few days – claimed that “one of 27 games to make use of the Wii Want More service at its launch will be none other than our very own best selling Super Smash Bros.® Brawl! Starting May 13, 2008, players will be able to add four undisclosed new characters and two new stages to the already large roster included in the stand-alone game for only 10.00 USD.”

The URL of that page doesn’t fit into the same format as the rest of NoA’s press site, and there’s no mention of Wii Want More on the press release section. Which kind of suggests Mr Nintendo UK’s probably right.

So there we are. Phil knows best.

Following plenty of complaints of less than reliable server connections in online Super Smash Bros. Brawl games in the US, Nintendo has made a statement saying sheer weight of numbers is putting its system under pressure.

“As with the launch of any online-enabled game, especially one as popular as Super Smash Bros. Brawl, everyone wants to play at once,” said the company. “This puts a strain on the pipeline.”

Nintendo of America confirmed yesterday that the game was the fastest selling in its history, having moved 1.4 million units since it launched on March 9. Buy some bigger servers, Nintendo. Still no date for Europe.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold 1.4 million units since its March 9 launch in the US, making it the fastest selling Nintendo of America game of all time.

Selling more than 874,000 on day one, the game has moved more than 120 units per minute since launch. That’s ridiculous. What’s wrong with you people?

“Super Smash Bros. Brawl has made the leap from video game to cultural phenomenon,” said NoA’s Cammie Dunaway. “Game reviewers and the public alike praise its fun game play and extensive, inventive content.”

Press release after the link. Still no date for Europe.

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Here. Apparently some of the problems gamers have had running Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the US may have been caused by cigarette smoke clouding Wii’s laser. The Boston Herald offers absolutely no basis for this claim at all, which is nice. We’ll put it under “rumour”.

According to this, Boston beat Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York in the first official Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. There’s a video through the link of people going “woot” and shouting “hell yeah”. There’s footage of the final fight, which saw Ike and Sheik pressing “A” against each other for a long time before one of them one. See for yourself.

According to this, a small but significant number of Super Smash Bros. Brawl purchases are showing disc errors in the US, but Nintendo has moved lightning-strike Pikachu stylt to make everything good.

“Super Smash Bros. Brawl utilizes a double-layer disc which has a large memory capacity,” said Nintendo. “A very small percentage of Wii consoles may have trouble consistently reading data off this large capacity disc if there is some contamination on the lens of the disc drive. Nintendo has specialized cleaning equipment that can resolve this problem.”

If you’re American and having issues, hit that link for a form to fill in and Nintendo will clean your laser for you. There’s service.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii Fit got pushed into second and third place respectively last week in Japan, with Namco’s Gundam Musou Special for PS2 coming in on top with 150,000 sales. Figures taken from here.

01./00. [PS2] Gundam Musou Special (Bandai-Namco) – 150,000 / NEW
02./01. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 67,000 / 1,358,000
03./03. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 64,000 / 1,610,000
04./00. [NDS] Soma Bringer (Nintendo) – 51,000 / NEW
05./00. [360] The Idolm@ster: Live for You! (Bandai-Namco) – 44,000 / NEW
06./02. [NDS] Etrian Odyssey II: The Royal Grail (Atlus) – 25,000 / 94,000
07./04. [PSP] Musou Orochi (Koei) – 24,000 / 71,000
08./05. [NDS] Harvest Moon: Shining Sun and Friends (Marvelous Entertainment) – 22,000 / 67,000
09./09. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) – 21,000 / 2,820,000
10./06. [WII] Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 (Konami) – 17,000 / 53,000

Wow. Nintendo sold 331,627 units of Wii in the four weeks to February 24, compared with 89,131 units of PS3, Enterbrain said today, meaning almost four Wii consoles were sold for every PS3.

The January ratio was 3-1, no doubt pushed forward by the stellar success of Brawl and Wii Fit, which sold 1.33 million and 309,311 units in the period respectively.

By contract, Xbox 360 sold 14,079 in the same four weeks.

As was widely reported yesterday, NOA’s Reggie Fils-Aime said at GDC that Super Smash Bros. Brawl was to release in Europe this autumn, far behind Japan and America. It transpires the source information wasn’t entirely correct.

“While recounting some of the info that I learned from Nintendo of America’s President & COO, Reggie Fils-Aime, I implied that the European release of Super Smash Bros. Melee had been moved to the fall of 2008…that’s not quite accurate, as neither NOE nor Reggie has announced any official release date at this time,” said EGM editor Shane Bettenhausen, here. “Reggie did tell me (and the other media present) that the release had been pushed out of the winter/spring time frame due to the amount of localization required to get the game up and running all the various European languages. But Reggie did not say WHEN Europeans will get Smash Bros., just that it would be at a later date than the U.S.”

There’s more through the link. We still don’t know when the game’s going to be released in Europe.

According to this, Nintendo isn’t planning on releasing big-name Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Europe until the autumn this year. Reggie gave the game away, so to speak, at a breakfast at GDC last week. The news will go down extremely unwell with those looking forward to the game over here, as both Japan and America will have been playing it for months by then. It may do well to remember that we’re going to get Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii earlier than the US, OK?

According to this, Smash Bros. Brawl doesn’t include voice chat for online games. Quite why no one’s pointed this out before is beyond us, see as the title sailed through the million mark in Japan without even blinking.

But anyway. There you go. Apparently there are strict rules about communicating through Wii – presumably as it caters for the younger end of the market – so Nintendo left the feature out altogether.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is still leading the Japanese charts according to this, having sold 142,000 copies in the last week. Here’s the list:

1. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
2. Wii Fit (Wii)
3. Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side 2nd Season (DS)
4. Poison Pink (PS2)
5. Ebi Kore+ Kimi Kiss (PS2)
6. Wii Sports (Wii)
7. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gihren’s Ambition, The Axis’ Threat (PSP)
8. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS)
9. Devil May Cry 4 (PS3)
10. Naruto: Shippuuden Dairansen! Kage Bunshin Emaki (DS)

About as surprising as the sun coming up, this, but there we are. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has stayed at number one in the Japanese charts, according to Media Create, for the second week running. Here’s the top 10:

1. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
2. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gihren’s Ambition, The Axis’ Threat (PSP)
3. Wii Fit (Wii)
4. Devil May Cry 4 (PS3)
5. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS)
6. Wii Sports (Wii)
7. L, the Prologue to Death Note: Rasen’s Trap (DS)
8. Family Ski (Wii)
9. Tales of Destiny: Director’s Cut (PS2)
10. Mario Party DS (DS)

Nintendo’s just put out a press release detailing its GDC sessions, and one specifically related to download channel WiiWare has been confirmed.

“On Friday, Feb. 22 at 9 am, Takashi Aoyama will tell the development story of the Wii console’s internal hardware programming, which includes a diverse array of built-in entertainment and informational channels for everyone in the household such as the News Channel, the Everybody Votes Channel and the Check Mii Out Channel. Aoyama will also discuss how his team tackled some unprecedented hurdles for Wii, including the most recent challenge of introducing WiiWare.”

Whisper: release date.

Other Nintendo sessions include one on the development of Wii Fit and one on Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Press release after the link.

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Despite only being on sale for 11 days, Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold more than 1 million copies in Japan, according to this.

The game is the fastest to achieve 1 million sales for Wii in Japan, with Wii Fit taking seven weeks and Wii Sports 11 weeks to reach the milestone.

Everything appears to be going terribly for Nintendo, doesn’t it?

Nearly a million Japanese people can’t be wrong. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold 820,000 units in its first week on sale in Japan, according to Media Create, for the week ending February 3. Mental. Wii Fit has now been knocked down to fifth place, after enjoying several weeks in the top slot.

Devil May Cry 4, as predicted, came in second place, with 205,000 copies sold. The rest of the list is below.

1. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
2. Devil May Cry 4 (PS3)
3. Tales of Destiny: Director’s Cut (PS2)
4. Haruhi Suzumiya’s Wonderment (PS2)
5. Wii Fit (Wii)
6. Disgaea 3 (PS3)
7. Devil May Cry 4 (360)
8. Mario & Sonic at the Olympics (DS)
9. Assassin’s Creed (PS3)
10. World Soccer Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (PSP)

Here. He’s playing using Solid Snake, obviously, but he looks as though he’s having a nice old time there, bashing away on the game that’s currently taking Japan by storm. Far better, however, is the picture below all that of Kojima with a duck between his legs. Kudos, Hideo.

According to this, Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl will hit the 800,000 units sold mark in its first week on store shelves in Japan. All these figures are approximate, and come through VGChartz, apparently originating at Famitsu. Official figures soon.

1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii): more than 800k (sell-through rate 95%)
2. Devil May Cry (PS3): about 210k
3. Suzumiya Haruhi no Tomadoi (PS2): about 113k
4. Tales of Destiny Directors Cut (PS2): about 97k
5. Wii Fit (Wii)
6. Desgaea 3 (PS3)L about 56k
7. Devil May Cry (360): about 40k
8. Assasin’s Creed (PS3): about 37k
9. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (DS)
10. Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (PSP)

If this is correct, Wii fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold more than 700,000 units in its first four days on sale in Japan. The figure is taken from “early sales data from Japanese game site Mantan Web”. No specific figures have been released, but apparently Devil May Cry 4 is second place so far this week.

Brawl is out in March in the US. There’s no European date as yet.

Bloody hell fire. According to this, citing “leaked Famitsu figures”, Super Smash Bros. Brawl sold over 500,000 units on its first day on sale in Japan this week. The Wii fighter, which has been the subject of endless attention from the media recently, is down for a March 9 release in the US, with no confirmed date as yet for Europe.