Golden Joystick Awards: The Nintendo Winners

The 26th Annual Golden Joystick Awards took place this week and there was only a few winners for Nintendo. The awards, hosted by comedian, Frankie Boyle, were without doubt, dominated by Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Activision. 4 awards went to the modern day, first person shooter, along with one for upcoming Call of Duty: World at War and Guitar Hero 3 and Activision itself picking up and award each respectively.

However was only 2 awards which went to Nintendo games. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass grabbed Bliss Handheld Game of the Year and Super Smash Bros. Brawl got the award for Nintendo GOTY award. Mario Kart Wii was nowhere to be seen unfortunatly.

However, in other news, I was recently looking at some sales figures on GoNintendo, and here are just a few:

New Super Mario Bros.
April - Sept 08: 1.73 Million
Overall Total: 15.89 Million

Mario Kart DS
April - Sept 08: 1.67 Million
Overall Total: 12.12 Million

Mario Party DS
April - Sept 08: 1.11 Million
Overall Total: 4.73 Million

Mario Kart Wii
April - Sept 08: 9.35Million
Overall Total: 9.53Million

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
April - Sept 08: 2.61 Million
Overall Total: 7.47 Million

It's good to see that Mario Games are still selling in their millions.