UK Software Charts (Updated every Monday)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 04, 2010

 

EA score their first chart topper of the year on the Entertainment Software (All Prices) Top 40 as ‘Mass Effect 2’ is comfortably No1, debuting on Xbox 360 & PC.

 

Original ‘Mass Effect’ (highest chart position on this chart No12) was a staged release having debuted in week 47, 2007 on Xbox 360 (at No2 on the Xbox 360 Full Price Chart, held off by the 2nd week of Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’) and then in week 23, 2008 on PC (again No2, held off by a 3rd consecutive week for Eidos’ ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’). Sales of ‘Mass Effect 2’ on Xbox 360 are almost double that achieved first time round and three times higher on PC. Ubisoft’s Wii ‘Just Dance’ only drops to No2 and actually enjoys a sales increase of 16% over last week. Activision take No3 with ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ (-3%) – 12 weeks and counting and it is yet to drop out of the Top 3. Sony take the only other new entry this week at No4 with ‘MAG’, short for ‘Massive Action Game’ on PS3 – an online-only FPS from Zipper Interactive, best known for a long line of PS2 SOCOM: US Navy Seals games.

 

Elsewhere within the Entertainment Software Chart there is nothing new to report with the usual protagonists jostling for position within the rest of the Top 10.

 

 

Week 4, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

02 (01) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

03 (__) PS3 Mag (Sony Computer Ent.)

04 (03) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

05 (02) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

06 (04) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

07 (__) PC Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

08 (06) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

09 (07) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

10 (08) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

11 (09) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

12 (05) 360 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

13 (12) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

14 (11) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)

15 (13) 360 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

16 (18) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

17 (14) PS3 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

18 (16) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

19 (21) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

20 (19) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

21 (10) PS3 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

22 (20) 360 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

23 (17) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

24 (27) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

25 (23) 360 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

26 (29) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

27 (25) 360 Borderlands (Take 2)

28 (24) NDS Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)

29 (34) WII Ea Sports Active (Electronic Arts)

30 (30) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

31 (15) 360 Darksiders (Thq)

32 (40) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)

33 (__) 360 Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (Codemasters)

34 (__) WII James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

35 (33) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

36 (26) PS3 Darksiders (Thq)

37 (__) WII Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-stars (Capcom)

38 (__) NDS Puzzler World (Ubisoft)

39 (28) PS3 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

40 (37) NDS Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

[Emerald Emblem]

37 (__) WII Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-stars (Capcom)

 

I wasn't expecting it to make it, great news.

[dazzybee]

That was after a couple of days on sale. Lets hope it's higher still this week!!

[Will]

As expected with a game like that it's dropped straight out of the chart, far too niche a title to generate big week on week sales.

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 05, 2010

‘Mass Effect 2’ tops an unchanged Top 3 this week, despite a sales drop of 64% putting it within touching distance of ‘Just Dance’ (-26%) at No2.

 

Ubisoft’s dancing game was only 850 sales away from regaining No1, but still remains ahead of ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ (-12%) which just holds on to No3 in the face of competition from EA’s new release ‘Dante’s Inferno’, debuting at No4. EA’s new IP is only a tiny number of sales away from dislodging ‘Call of Duty’ at No3, but EA can claim 3 games in the Top 5 as ‘FIFA 10’ (+26%) jumps 2 places to No5. The rest of the All Formats Top 10 shuffle places amongst themselves with Nintendo’s highest charting title ‘Wii Sports Resort’ (-18%) down one place to No6, ahead of Sony’s PS3-exclusive ‘MAG’ (-46%) down 3 places to No7, in its second week of release. Nintendo still manage 3 games in the Top 10 as ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii’ (-14%) holds on to No8 while ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (-36%) shows signs of flagging, down 3 places to No9. ‘James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game’ (-12%) rounds off the Top 10, a non-mover at No10 with ‘FIFA 10’ the only Top 10 game to gain sales this week.

 

Atari/Namco Bandai Games fail to break into the Top 10 as ‘Star Trek Online’ beams in at No11, ahead of new releases from THQ with ‘MX Vs ATV Reflex’ at No18 and EA with the latest Sims add-on ‘The Sims 3: Design & High Tech Stuff’ at No20.

 

 

 

Week 5, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (02) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

02 (01) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

03 (04) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

04 (03) PS3 Mag (Sony Computer Ent.)

05 (__) 360 Dante's Inferno (Electronic Arts)

06 (__) PS3 Dante's Inferno (Electronic Arts)

07 (06) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

08 (08) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

09 (09) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

10 (05) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

11 (__) PC Star Trek Online (Namco Bandai Games)

12 (10) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

13 (11) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

14 (20) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

15 (19) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

16 (__) PC The Sims 3: Design & High-tech Stuff (Electronic Arts)

17 (13) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

18 (16) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

19 (18) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

20 (14) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)

21 (17) PS3 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

22 (12) 360 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

23 (07) PC Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

24 (15) 360 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

25 (23) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

26 (22) 360 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

27 (24) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

28 (__) 360 Mx Vs Atv Reflex (Thq)

29 (__) WII Super Smash Bros: Brawl (Nintendo)

30 (26) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

31 (27) 360 Borderlands (Take 2)

32 (29) WII Ea Sports Active (Electronic Arts)

33 (33) 360 Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (Codemasters)

34 (25) 360 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

35 (30) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

36 (21) PS3 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

37 (__) WII Indiana Jones And The Staff Of Kings (Lucasarts)

38 (34) WII James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

39 (__) PC S.t.a.l.k.e.r. Call Of Pripyat (Koch Media)

40 (39) PS3 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

 

ELSPA Sales Awards for January, 2010:

 

SILVER - 100,000 copies

360 Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (Codemasters)

360 Dragon Age: Origins (EA)

NDS The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)

NDS Cooking Mama 3 (505 Games)

NDS Disney Fairies: Tinkerbell (Disney)

PS3 WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 (THQ)

PS3 Eyepet (Sony)

PSP FIFA 10 (EA)

WII Boom Blox (EA)

 

GOLD - 200,000

PS3 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)

360 Mirror's Edge (EA)

PS2 Singstar Legends (Sony)

NDS My Word Coach (Ubisoft)

NDS Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Disney)

 

 

PLATINUM - 300,000

PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony)

NDS Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)

WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

[Guest Captain Falcon]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 05, 2010

‘Mass Effect 2’ tops an unchanged Top 3 this week, despite a sales drop of 64% putting it within touching distance of ‘Just Dance’ (-26%) at No2.

 

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Week 5, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (02) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

02 (01) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

 

Did I miss something?

[D_prOdigy]

The 'summary' refers to the All Formats chart where the actual chart Dante posts is the Individual Formats chart.

 

Basically, all versions of Mass Effect 2 (ie, 360 + PC) total more than all versions of any other game this week.

[Dante]

Only all formats charts gets a summary than individual formats charts.

[Guest Captain Falcon]

I forgot it was on PC too.

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 06, 2010

It’s no shock which title is at No1 this week as Take 2’s sequel ‘Bioshock 2’ gets off to a rapturous start.

 

Just like Take 2’s ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ (which was their last No1 back in 2008), ‘Bioshock 2’ saw a Tuesday release and overtakes ‘Mass Effect 2’ as the biggest release this year so far. Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’ shows great legs staying at No2 again this week, followed by EA’s ‘FIFA 10’ which is up 53% in sales and has moved up two places to No3 thanks to price promotions. Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ slips down to No4 while the next three places are held by Nintendo with ‘Wii Sports Resort’ at No5, ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii’ at No6 and ‘Wii Fit Plus’ at No7.

 

Last week’s No1, EA’s ‘Mass Effect 2’, has dropped down to No8 with a decrease of 58% of sales. EA’s Dante’s Inferno’ also has a heavy drop from No4 to No9, while Sega’s ‘Bayonetta’ moves in the opposite direction, up from No38 to No10.

 

Week 6, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) 360 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

02 (01) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

03 (__) PS3 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

04 (03) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

05 (09) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

06 (10) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

07 (02) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

08 (07) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

09 (08) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

10 (14) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

11 (15) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

12 (12) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

13 (__) PC Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

14 (13) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

15 (05) 360 Dante's Inferno (Electronic Arts)

16 (06) PS3 Dante's Inferno (Electronic Arts)

17 (__) PS3 Bayonetta (Sega)

18 (25) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

19 (__) 360 Bayonetta (Sega)

20 (04) PS3 Mag (Sony Computer Ent.)

21 (18) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

22 (19) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

23 (16) PC The Sims 3: Design & High-tech Stuff (Electronic Arts)

24 (22) 360 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

25 (__) NDS Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

26 (__) 360 Madden Nfl 10 (Electronic Arts)

27 (20) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)

28 (36) PS3 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

29 (__) WII Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

30 (__) WII Peppa Pig: The Game (Ubisoft)

31 (17) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

32 (__) PS3 Madden Nfl 10 (Electronic Arts)

33 (__) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

34 (27) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

35 (21) PS3 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

36 (26) 360 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

37 (31) 360 Borderlands (Take 2)

38 (30) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

39 (__) WII Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli (Play It/system 3)

40 (32) WII Ea Sports Active (Electronic Arts)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 07, 2010

2K Games/Take 2’s ‘Bioshock 2’ only survives for one week at the top of the All Formats Chart, usurped by a more modern-themed FPS from Sega in the form of ‘Aliens Vs Predator’. It is over 10 years since the original AvP was launched, but UK developer ‘Rebellion’ who worked on the original, can now claim the fastest selling game so far in 2010.

 

Sales of 2010’s previous fastest selling game, ‘Bioshock 2’ (on the same formats as AvP – Xbox 360, PS3 and PC) drop 71% putting it down two places to No3, behind ‘Just Dance’ which holds on to No2 with a sales increase of 55% thanks to strong half-term interest. The year may only have just begun, but we already have No1s from 5 different publishers. There is more half-term success in the form of ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii’ (+59%) which rises 2 places to No4, while sales of both ‘FIFA 10’ (-7%) and ‘Modern Warfare 2’ (+4%) are reasonably static, leaving them down 2 places to No’s 5 and 6 respectively.

 

Perhaps also because of the Winter Olympics, Sega’s ‘Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games’ (+76%) slaloms back into the Top 10, up 3 places to No8. Nintendo remain well represented in the Top 10 thanks to top sellers ‘Wii Sports Resort’ (+25%) at No7 and ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (+11%) at No9. The Top 10 is rounded off by EA’s ‘Army of Two: The 40th Day’ (+13%) which sneaks back into the Top 10 at No10, keeping the Winter-Olympic boosted ‘Vancouver 2010’ (+274%) out of the Top 10, as it breaks into the Top 40 for the first time at No11.

 

 

Week 7, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

02 (02) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

03 (__) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

04 (05) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

05 (01) 360 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

06 (04) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

07 (06) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

08 (__) PC Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

09 (08) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

10 (18) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

11 (03) PS3 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

12 (09) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

13 (14) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

14 (10) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

15 (12) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

16 (07) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

17 (25) NDS Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

18 (22) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

19 (11) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

20 (__) NDS The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)

21 (34) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

22 (__) PS3 Vancouver 2010 (Sega)

23 (24) 360 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

24 (38) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

25 (17) PS3 Bayonetta (Sega)

26 (27) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)

27 (__) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)

28 (21) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

29 (28) PS3 Army Of Two: The 40th Day (Electronic Arts)

30 (__) NDS Style Boutique (Nintendo)

31 (31) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

32 (__) 360 Vancouver 2010 (Sega)

33 (23) PC The Sims 3: Design & High-tech Stuff (Electronic Arts)

34 (20) PS3 Mag (Sony Computer Ent.)

35 (36) 360 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

36 (__) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

37 (19) 360 Bayonetta (Sega)

38 (__) PS3 Darksiders (Thq)

39 (__) 360 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

40 (29) WII Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 08, 2010

 

Sony’s decision-based adventure game ‘Heavy Rain’ on PS3 thunders in at No1 this week, claiming Sony’s first No1 since ‘Killzone 2’ which was released this time last year.

 

As a result Sega’s ‘Aliens vs Predator’ slips down to No2 dropping by 38% in sales, followed by Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’ (-12%) at No3. Nintendo’s ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (+9%) leaps up the chart from No9 to No4, overtaking Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ (-17%) at No5. Nintendo claim both No6 with ‘Wii Sports Resort’ (-14%) and No7 with ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii’ (-34%). Sega’s new entry ‘Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing’ gets off to a good start at No8, ahead of Take 2’s ‘Bioshock 2’ (-56%) which has a big drop this week from No3 to No9 and EA’s ‘FIFA 10’ (-43%) which has also moved down the table from No5 to No10. Outside the Top 10 Sega’s new release in the Total War series ‘Napoleon: Total War’ debuts at No12 and Sony’s RPG ‘White Knight Chronicles’ completes the list of new entries at No35.

 

Week 8, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

02 (02) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

03 (01) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

04 (03) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

05 (07) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

06 (06) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

07 (04) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

08 (__) PC Napoleon: Total War (Sega)

09 (13) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

10 (09) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

11 (05) 360 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

12 (12) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

13 (10) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

14 (15) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

15 (__) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

16 (__) 360 Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

17 (14) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

18 (20) NDS The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)

19 (28) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

20 (16) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

21 (31) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

22 (17) NDS Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

23 (08) PC Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

24 (11) PS3 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

25 (18) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

26 (19) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

27 (21) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

28 (26) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)

29 (24) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

30 (__) PS3 White Knight Chronicles (Sony Computer Ent.)

31 (__) PS3 Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

32 (34) PS3 Mag (Sony Computer Ent.)

33 (32) 360 Vancouver 2010 (Sega)

34 (22) PS3 Vancouver 2010 (Sega)

35 (__) PS3 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Square Enix Europe)

36 (30) NDS Style Boutique (Nintendo)

37 (__) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)

38 (35) 360 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

39 (__) 360 Lips: Party Classics (Microsoft)

40 (27) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)

 

OP 40 NINTENDO Wii (FULL PRICE), WEEK ENDING 27 February 2010

 

TW Title Developer Label Publisher

1 1 NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO

3 2 MARIO & SONIC AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES SEGA SEGA SEGA

4 3 MARIO KART WII NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO

- 4 SONIC & SEGA ALL-STARS RACING SUMO DIGITAL SEGA SEGA

6 5 RABBIDS GO HOME UBISOFT (FRANCE) UBISOFT UBISOFT

8 6 F1 2009 SUMO DIGITAL CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS

5 7 FIFA 10 EA CANADA EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS

7 8 JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR: THE GAME UBISOFT (MONTREAL) UBISOFT UBISOFT

33 9 THE BEATLES: ROCK BAND HARMONIX EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS

9 10 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE TREYARCH ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

- 11 SILENT HILL: SHATTERED MEMORIES CLIMAX KONAMI KONAMI

Edited March 1, 2010 by Dante
Automerged Doublepost

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 09, 2010

 

Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ explodes into the All Formats Chart at No1 this week, honouring EA with the accolade of being the fastest selling game of the year so far.

 

‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ has an excellent performance, outselling the launch week of the original ‘Bad Company’ by almost 3 to 1. It also records the best ever launch for any game released this early in the year. 53% of sales went to the Xbox 360 version with 31% for PS3 and 16% for PC, topping each individual chart. Last week’s No1 ‘Heavy Rain’ slips to No4 with sales down 69% and with ‘Aliens Vs Predator’ (-61%) falling one place to No3, ‘Just Dance’ (-15%) finds itself back at No2. Sales of ‘Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing’ (+28%) speed up in their second week, propelling it from No8 to No5, ahead of ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (-5%), which drops 2 places to No6. The usual suspects fill the remaining positions in the Top 10 with ‘Modern Warfare 2’ (-11%) and ‘Wii Sports Resort’ (-15%) both down 2 places to No’s 7 and 8 respectively.

 

‘FIFA 10’ (-13%) has never been out of the Top 10 since its release and it does not look like it wants this to change, gaining one place this week, up from No10 to No9. ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii’ (-41%) manages to hold onto a Top 10 finish, despite falling 3 places to No10. The launch of the PC version of ‘Assassin’s Creed II’ (+73%) sees it jump from No31 to No14, while there is a new entry at No23 for Square-Enix’s PC strategy title ‘Supreme Commander 2’.

 

 

Week 9, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

02 (__) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

03 (02) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

04 (01) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

05 (__) PC Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

06 (05) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

07 (03) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

08 (06) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

09 (04) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

10 (07) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

11 (10) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

12 (15) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

13 (09) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

14 (12) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

15 (11) 360 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

16 (14) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

17 (__) NDS Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

18 (19) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

19 (16) 360 Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

20 (08) PC Napoleon: Total War (Sega)

21 (13) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

22 (17) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

23 (25) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

24 (__) PC Supreme Commander 2 (Square Enix Europe)

25 (21) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

26 (18) NDS The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)

27 (31) PS3 Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

28 (26) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

29 (__) PC Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

30 (20) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

31 (__) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

32 (37) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)

33 (28) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)

34 (22) NDS Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

35 (__) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

36 (24) PS3 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

37 (27) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

38 (38) 360 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

39 (29) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

40 (40) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 10, 2010

 

A week on from yet another fastest selling game of the year so far and the record has yet again been smashed – Square Enix’s ‘Final Fantasy XIII’ debuts at No1 on 360/PS3, split 54% PS3 and 46% 360.

 

The last Final Fantasy title to reach No1 was actually ‘Final Fantasy XII’, back in week 8, 2007 although this was only released on PS2. Last week’s record breaker, EA’s ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ drops to No2 (-38%) and Ubisoft drop one place to No3 with ‘Just Dance’ on Wii (-9%). Sony’s ‘Heavy Rain’ on PS3 (-8%) remains at No4 and Nintendo’s ‘Wii Fit Plus’ climbs one place to No5 (+11%). Also climbing one place is Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ at No6 (+2%) – the title also climbs one place in the all-time All Formats total UK market unit sellers, finally outpacing Rockstar/Take 2’s ‘GTA: San Andreas’ to claim second place, behind the UK’s biggest selling game of all time, ‘Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training’ on DS.

 

Also of note this week is the release of the third game in the Ben 10 series – D3P/Namco Bandai’s ‘Ben 10: Alien Force – Vilgax Attacks’ which debuts at No13 over 5 formats. Debuting right behind at No14 is THQ’s ‘Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising’. Further down the Top 40 we also have Sega’s ‘Yakuza 3’ on PS3 debuting at No24. Disney’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ makes an appearance at No34 having been released last week and Sega’s ‘Sonic Classic Collection’ on DS is new at No35.

 

Week 10, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

02 (__) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

03 (01) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

04 (03) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

05 (02) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

06 (04) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

07 (06) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

08 (08) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

09 (10) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

10 (11) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

11 (14) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

12 (05) PC Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

13 (__) PC Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War Ii - Chaos (Thq)

14 (07) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

15 (12) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

16 (35) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

17 (15) 360 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

18 (13) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

19 (16) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

20 (09) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

21 (17) NDS Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

22 (__) NDS Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo)

23 (__) PS3 Yakuza 3 (Sega)

24 (18) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

25 (__) NDS Take A Break's Puzzle Master (Ubisoft)

26 (23) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

27 (26) NDS The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)

28 (22) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

29 (32) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)

30 (25) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

31 (36) PS3 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

32 (__) NDS Sonic Classic Collection (Sega)

33 (__) PSP Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Take 2)

34 (__) NDS Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)

35 (31) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

36 (19) 360 Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

37 (28) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

38 (20) PC Napoleon: Total War (Sega)

39 (37) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

40 (27) PS3 Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 11, 2010

 

God of War III’ is crowned No1 this week, bestowing Sony with their second game of 2010 to reach the coveted top spot (after ‘Heavy Rain’ reached No1 three weeks ago). In the whole of 2009 Sony only had one week at No1 with ‘Killzone 2’.

 

Launched exclusively on PS3, ‘God of War III’ outdoes its PS2 predecessor’s launch by 2.65 to 1. Like ‘Final Fantasy XIII’ last week, it is the series’ first true outing on a next-gen format, however it can by no means match Final Fantasy XIII’s spectacular debut which accounted for almost 3 times as many sales (although this was over 5 days and 2 formats while sales for God of War are for Friday and Saturday and PS3-only). ‘Final Fantasy XIII’ sales fall 80% as it slips from No1 to No3, while EA’s ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ holds on to the No2 spot, only 2,000 sales away from No1. Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’ is starting to become a familiar sight at the top of the chart, down one place to No4, while THQ record this week’s only other Top 10 new entry with the post-apocalyptic ‘Metro 2033’. The rest of the Top 10 jostles amongst themselves as ‘Wii Fit Plus’ moves down one place to No6 and ‘Heavy Rain’ slides 3 places to No7. Nintendo’s only Top 10 game this week is ‘Wii Sports Resort’, but it does mange to climb one place to No8, boosted by sales from bundled Wii hardware. ‘Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing’ slows two places to No9 and the unthinkable almost happens – ‘Modern Warfare 2’ almost falls out of the Top 10 for the first time, down 4 places to No10 this week. EA’s big newcomers this week both sit on the outskirts of the Top 10 with new expansion ‘Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening’ at No11 and ‘Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight’ at No12. The only other new entry is Capcom’s ‘MotoGP 09/10’ at No21.

 

Week 11, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) PS3 God Of War Iii (Sony Computer Ent.)

02 (03) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

03 (04) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

04 (05) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

05 (01) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

06 (07) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

07 (__) 360 Metro 2033 (Thq)

08 (02) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

09 (06) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

10 (08) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

11 (__) PC Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (Electronic Arts)

12 (09) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

13 (__) PC Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening (Electronic Arts)

14 (10) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

15 (18) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

16 (12) PC Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

17 (11) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

18 (19) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

19 (15) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

20 (__) 360 Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening (Electronic Arts)

21 (16) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

22 (26) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

23 (32) NDS Sonic Classic Collection (Sega)

24 (__) PS3 Littlebigplanet (Sony Computer Ent.)

25 (14) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

26 (21) NDS Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

27 (28) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

28 (22) NDS Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo)

29 (30) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

30 (17) 360 Bioshock 2 (Take 2)

31 (24) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

32 (29) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)

33 (__) PS3 Motogp 09/10 (Capcom)

34 (25) NDS Take A Break's Puzzle Master (Ubisoft)

35 (20) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

36 (39) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

37 (37) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

38 (__) WII Ben 10: Alien Force - Vilgax Attacks (Namco Bandai Games)

39 (__) NDS Style Boutique (Nintendo)

40 (27) NDS The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 12, 2010

Square Enix Europe rack up their second All Formats No1 this year so far (previous being Final Fantasy XIII) with ‘Just Cause 2’ thanks to their subsidiary Eidos Interactive.

 

The original Just Cause released almost four years ago just missed out on the top spot, debuting at No2 in the All Formats Chart. Nintendo’s remake of Pokémon Gold and Silver (originally on Gameboy Color) debuts on the DS this week with ‘Pokémon Soulsilver’ at No2 and ‘Pokémon Heartgold’ at No4, with EA’s ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ sandwiched in between at No3. Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’ moves down a place to No5 followed by Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ which bounces back up to No6 from No10. Last week’s No1, Sony’s ‘God of War III’, has dropped down six places to No7 followed by Square Enix’s ‘Final Fantasy XIII’ which has dropped down five places to No8. Nintendo then finish off the Top 10 with ‘Wii Sports Resort’ at No9 and ‘Wii Fit Plus’ at No10. Outside of the Top 10 we have Koch Media’s TV tie-in ‘Prison Break: The Conspiracy’ new at No17 and Ubisoft’s ‘Red Steel 2’ debuting at No34.

 

Week 12, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) NDS Pokemon Soulsilver (Nintendo)

02 (__) NDS Pokemon Heartgold (Nintendo)

03 (03) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

04 (__) 360 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

05 (__) PS3 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

06 (02) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

07 (01) PS3 God Of War Iii (Sony Computer Ent.)

08 (10) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

09 (06) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

10 (04) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

11 (12) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

12 (14) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

13 (17) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

14 (09) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

15 (07) 360 Metro 2033 (Thq)

16 (08) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

17 (05) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

18 (18) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

19 (15) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

20 (19) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

21 (27) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

22 (25) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

23 (22) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

24 (11) PC Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (Electronic Arts)

25 (21) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

26 (__) PS3 Prison Break: The Conspiracy (Koch Media)

27 (__) 360 Prison Break: The Conspiracy (Koch Media)

28 (31) PS3 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Ent.)

29 (29) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

30 (37) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

31 (35) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

32 (__) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

33 (__) WII Red Steel 2 (Ubisoft)

34 (26) NDS Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

35 (__) PS3 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

36 (__) 360 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

37 (16) PC Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

38 (23) NDS Sonic Classic Collection (Sega)

39 (36) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

40 (__) PS3 Darksiders (Thq)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 13, 2010

 

Easter takes a hold of the games market, with Good Friday signalling a time to settle back, meet the family and play some games. With that in mind, Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’ manoeuvres its way back to No1 (+56%) with a third chart-topping week on the Entertainment All Formats (it was No1 in weeks 2 & 3 this year and also claims an impressive 12 out of 13 weeks of the year so far on top of the Entertainment Software Budget Price Top 40).

 

Square Enix’s ‘Just Cause 2’ (-21%) has to settle for No2 this week, having parachuted straight into No1 at launch last week (although keeps hold of No1 on both 360 and PS3 Full Price Charts). EA’s ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ (-7%) remains at No3 and Activision Blizzard celebrate a return to the Top 5 for the first time in 5 weeks with ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ climbing 2 places to No4 (+52%) – 21 weeks since launch and MW2 still has not dropped out of the Top 10. Nintendo’s ‘Pokemon Soulsilver’ (-37%) drops 3 places to No5, ‘Wii Sports Resort’ climbs 3 places to No6 (+52%) and ‘Pokemon HeartGold’ drops 3 places to No7 (-34%).

 

‘FIFA 10’ celebrates a return to the Top 10 after 3 weeks just outside, up 4 places to No8 (+70%). There are no new releases within the Top 40, with only P2Games/Ubisoft’s ‘Peppa Pig: Fun and Games’ from last week entering the Top 40 at No27 (+312%). Those looking to find PQube/Zen’s ‘Blazblue: Calamity Trigger’ will be interested to learn that it was the biggest new release of week 13, but is just outside the published Entertainment Software All Prices Top 40 (you can find it on the Entertainment Software Full Price Top 40 at No38 and at No21 on 360 and No19 on PS3 Full Price Charts).

 

 

 

 

Week 13, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (03) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

02 (01) NDS Pokemon Soulsilver (Nintendo)

03 (08) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

04 (02) NDS Pokemon Heartgold (Nintendo)

05 (04) 360 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

06 (12) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

07 (06) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

08 (05) PS3 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

09 (09) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

10 (11) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

11 (10) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

12 (13) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

13 (18) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

14 (07) PS3 God Of War Iii (Sony Computer Ent.)

15 (19) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

16 (14) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

17 (21) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

18 (22) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

19 (30) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

20 (23) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

21 (20) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

22 (16) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

23 (17) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

24 (__) NDS Peppa Pig: Fun And Games (Ubisoft)

25 (32) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

26 (31) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

27 (36) 360 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

28 (39) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

29 (25) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

30 (__) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

31 (__) NDS Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo)

32 (29) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

33 (35) PS3 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

34 (__) NDS Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

35 (15) 360 Metro 2033 (Thq)

36 (__) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

37 (__) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

38 (34) NDS Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

39 (__) NDS Peppa Pig: The Game (Ubisoft)

40 (__) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)

 

 

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[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 14, 2010

Wii gamers can’t stop dancing as ‘Just Dance’ holds on to No1 in the All Formats Chart, handing Ubisoft a total of 4 weeks at No1 in 2010 – the most for any publisher so far this year (ahead of EA with 3 weeks and Sony and Square-Enix with 2 weeks each).

 

‘Just Dance’ has been the biggest selling Wii game every week this year apart from in week 1 (when it had to contend with Wii Fit Plus). It is also already the 3rd biggest 3rd party Wii game ever in the UK (behind Sega’s Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and Take 2’s Carnival Funfair Games). All Top 40 titles drop in sales, but sales of ‘Just Dance’ only dip by 7%, the lowest drop out of all the Top 20 games this week. ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ leapfrogs ‘Just Cause 2’, climbing one place to No2 with sales down 28%, while sales of Square-Enix’s title drop by 51% as it slips one place to No3. ‘Modern Warfare 2’ (-46%) is a non-mover at No4 staying ahead of Nintendo’s 5 Top 10 charting games. Nintendo’s biggest selling game this week remains ‘Wii Sports Resort’ (-25%) up one place to No5, despite a surge from ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (-8%) up 3 places to No6, Pokemon SoulSilver (-42%) and HeartGold (-39%) are both down 2 places to No’s 7 and 9 respectively, while ‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii’ (-37%) holds on to No10.

 

In an extremely quiet week for new releases there are no Top 40 newcomers and next week looks like it could well be 5 weeks at No1 for Ubisoft with the imminent release of ‘Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction’ on Xbox 360.

 

Week 14, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (01) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

02 (03) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

03 (09) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

04 (02) NDS Pokemon Soulsilver (Nintendo)

05 (04) NDS Pokemon Heartgold (Nintendo)

06 (07) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

07 (05) 360 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

08 (06) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

09 (10) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

10 (11) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

11 (08) PS3 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

12 (13) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

13 (15) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

14 (14) PS3 God Of War Iii (Sony Computer Ent.)

15 (17) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

16 (12) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

17 (20) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

18 (19) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

19 (16) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

20 (18) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

21 (31) NDS Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo)

22 (36) 360 Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts)

23 (25) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

24 (24) NDS Peppa Pig: Fun And Games (Ubisoft)

25 (27) 360 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

26 (28) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

27 (32) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

28 (30) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

29 (21) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

30 (40) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)

31 (33) PS3 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

32 (29) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

33 (26) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

34 (34) NDS Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

35 (22) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

36 (37) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

37 (38) NDS Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

38 (23) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

39 (__) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)

40 (__) WII F1 2009 (Codemasters)

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 16, 2010

 

Ubisoft’s Xbox 360 ‘Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction’ (-46%) takes a second week at No1 and Ubisoft also remain at No2 with Wii ‘Just Dance’ (-31%).

 

Rockstar/Take2’s ‘Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City’ remains at No3 thanks to the release last week of PS3/PC versions (-31%) and Nintendo climb one place to No4 with ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (-3%). This week’s big new entry at No5 is Capcom’s internally developed ‘Monster Hunter Tri’ on Wii, the most successful version of this franchise so far in terms of launch sales / position on the All Formats Chart. ‘Monster Hunter’ was first seen in the UK on PS2 in May 2005 and this was followed by 3 PSP versions (Monster Hunter Freedom, 2006 / Freedom 2, 2007 / Freedom Unite, 2009). The only other new entry this week is Namco Bandai’s ‘Dead to Rights: Retribution’ at No22, developed by UK studio Volatile Games (a division of Blitz Games). This is a first next gen outing for the franchise - ‘Dead to Rights’ was first seen in 2003 on PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and PC (developed by Namco).

 

 

Week 16, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (01) 360 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Ubisoft)

02 (02) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

03 (03) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

04 (04) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

05 (__) WII Monster Hunter Tri (Capcom)

06 (05) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

07 (06) NDS Pokemon Soulsilver (Nintendo)

08 (07) NDS Pokemon Heartgold (Nintendo)

09 (08) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

10 (09) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

11 (10) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

12 (11) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

13 (28) NDS Band Hero (Activision Blizzard)

14 (12) 360 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

15 (14) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

16 (13) PS3 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

17 (16) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

18 (15) PS3 God Of War Iii (Sony Computer Ent.)

19 (17) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

20 (22) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

21 (21) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

22 (18) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

23 (20) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

24 (23) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

25 (34) 360 Halo 3: Odst (Microsoft)

26 (26) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

27 (19) NDS Peppa Pig: Fun And Games (Ubisoft)

28 (__) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

29 (37) 360 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

30 (__) 360 Metro 2033 (Thq)

31 (30) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

32 (38) PS3 Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (Sega)

33 (33) 360 Lego Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive)

34 (29) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)

35 (25) WII Mario & Sonic At Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

36 (32) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Iv (Take 2)

37 (24) NDS Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo)

38 (35) 360 Pure (Disney Interactive Studios)

39 (__) WII Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing (Sega)

40 (27) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)

[STOOPIDDITTIES]

Go-go gadget Monster Hunter!

 

Also nice to see Metro there.

[lostmario]

Good for Monster Hunter, but Jesus Christ.. look at Just Dance

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 17, 2010

EA shoot to the top of the All Formats Chart this week as ‘2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa’ debuts at No1 putting an end to Ubisoft’s 4-week run.

 

It’s not surprising to see FIFA depose Ubisoft’s ‘Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction’ from top spot with what is the World Cup themed version of the 10th biggest selling game ever in the UK, ‘FIFA 10’. During this week in World Cup Year 2006, the launch of ‘FIFA World Cup Germany 2006’ represented 15% of FIFA 2006’s launch week. ‘2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa’, although released on only XB360, PS3, PSP and Wii (compared to 7 formats in 2006), performs in a similar fashion, recording 14.6% of FIFA 10’s launch week. The PS3 version just pips XB360, accounting for 48%, XB360 47% with PSP and Wii making up the rest. It was the other way round at the launch of FIFA 10 with XB360 48% and PS3 46%. At No2 this week is another reinterpretation of a classic with ‘Super Street Fighter IV’ debuting ahead of Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance’.

 

Sales of ‘Just Dance’ dip by only 5% putting it ahead of Ubisoft’s very own ‘Splinter Cell: Conviction’ which falls from No1 to No4 with a 37% drop in sales despite the release of the PC version this week. Sales of the 3 week old PS3 and PC versions of ‘GTA: Episodes from Liberty City’ (–32%) are slowing meaning a dip from No3 to No5 for the Rockstar title. Nintendo’s ‘Wii Fit Plus’ and ‘Wii Sports Resort’ both perform well this week with sales up 20% and 27% respectively, positioning them at No’s 6 and 7. EA’s ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ rallies at No8, down 2 places, but managing a 7% rise in sales. ‘Modern Warfare 2’ (+42%) still hasn’t dropped out of the Top 10, boosted by price promotions on Xbox 360, only slipping one place to No9. There is a third new entry in the All Formats Top 10 this week with the HD, next-gen ports of the first two God of War games, ‘God of War Collection’, debuting at No10 on PS3. One other new game makes the All Formats Top 40 this week – Sega’s ‘Iron Man 2’ at No20.

 

Week 17, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (__) PS3 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa (Electronic Arts)

02 (__) 360 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa (Electronic Arts)

03 (02) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

04 (01) 360 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Ubisoft)

05 (04) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

06 (__) PS3 Super Street Fighter Iv (Capcom)

07 (03) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

08 (06) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

09 (__) 360 Super Street Fighter Iv (Capcom)

10 (__) PS3 God Of War Collection (Sony Computer Ent.)

11 (10) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

12 (05) WII Monster Hunter Tri (Capcom)

13 (08) NDS Pokemon Heartgold (Nintendo)

14 (07) NDS Pokemon Soulsilver (Nintendo)

15 (09) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

16 (18) PS3 God Of War Iii (Sony Computer Ent.)

17 (11) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

18 (12) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

19 (14) 360 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

20 (16) PS3 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

21 (15) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

22 (19) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

23 (25) 360 Halo 3: Odst (Microsoft)

24 (28) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

25 (__) 360 Mirror's Edge (Electronic Arts)

26 (17) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

27 (26) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

28 (30) 360 Metro 2033 (Thq)

29 (__) PS3 Yakuza 3 (Sega)

30 (31) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

31 (24) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

32 (__) PC Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Ubisoft)

33 (__) 360 Iron Man 2 (Sega)

34 (23) PS3 Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Ent.)

35 (20) PC Football Manager 2010 (Sega)

36 (21) PS3 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

37 (__) 360 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

38 (__) NDS Jewel Quest Mysteries: The Emerald Tear (Gsp/avanquest)

39 (__) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

40 (22) 360 Fifa 10 (Electronic Arts)

[STOOPIDDITTIES]

Ah dropped off the top 10 already. There I was hoping to see it climb.

[ShadowV7]

Haha, yeah same. Still, had 5 odd new releases to compete with. Anyway, it out did Mario and Pokémon which sell a fair bit.

 

Still, i'm expecting it to hold up for a little while longer.

[Dante]

UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 18, 2010

EA’s ‘2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa’ (-34%) takes a second week at No1 and Ubisoft climb one place to No2 with ‘Just Dance’ (-7%), having just crashed through the 1m UK unit barrier last week (based on CT estimates of the total UK market).

 

Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ looked in danger of leaving the Top 10 for the first time since launch half a year ago – and duly climbs 6 chart positions to No3 overall (+34%) thanks to some energetic promotions centred around the special edition versions. Nintendo climb 2 places to No4 with ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (-5%) and EA re-enter the Top 5 with ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2’ up 3 places to No5 (+10%). Capcom debuted at No2 last week with ‘Super Street Fighter IV’ and the title now drops to No6 (-51%). Sega’s ‘Iron Man 2’ debuted last week at No20 and climbs 8 places to No12 (+58%).

 

 

Also debuting last week was Nintendo’s DS ‘Warioware D.I.Y.’ which enters the All Formats Top 40 this week at No24 (+109%). Sony’s PSP ‘Invizimals’ benefits from some price promotions, re-entering this chart at No28 (+270%).

 

Week 18, 2010 - Individual Formats (Units)

 

01 (01) PS3 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa (Electronic Arts)

02 (03) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft)

03 (02) 360 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa (Electronic Arts)

04 (05) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

05 (08) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

06 (11) 360 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

07 (04) 360 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (Ubisoft)

08 (07) PS3 Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Take 2)

09 (16) PS3 God Of War Iii (Sony Computer Ent.)

10 (06) PS3 Super Street Fighter Iv (Capcom)

11 (15) 360 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

12 (09) 360 Super Street Fighter Iv (Capcom)

13 (18) PS3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts)

14 (17) WII New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)

15 (13) NDS Pokemon Heartgold (Nintendo)

16 (10) PS3 God Of War Collection (Sony Computer Ent.)

17 (14) NDS Pokemon Soulsilver (Nintendo)

18 (23) 360 Halo 3: Odst (Microsoft)

19 (19) 360 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

20 (__) NDS Warioware D.i.y. (Nintendo)

21 (21) 360 Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft)

22 (12) WII Monster Hunter Tri (Capcom)

23 (22) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

24 (31) PS3 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard)

25 (20) PS3 Just Cause 2 (Square Enix Europe)

26 (33) 360 Iron Man 2 (Sega)

27 (__) PSP Invizimals (Sony Computer Ent.)

28 (24) PS3 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

29 (26) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

30 (27) 360 Final Fantasy Xiii (Square Enix Europe)

31 (30) NDS Professor Layton And Pandora's Box (Nintendo)

32 (__) PS3 Iron Man 2 (Sega)

33 (__) PS3 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

34 (__) 360 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

35 (39) 360 Aliens Vs Predator (Sega)

36 (__) PSP 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa (Electronic Arts)

37 (__) PS3 Assassin's Creed Ii (Ubisoft)

38 (37) 360 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)

39 (38) NDS Jewel Quest Mysteries: The Emerald Tear (Gsp/avanquest)

40 (__) PS3 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (Ubisoft)