Dante Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 17, 2011 This is the last week of April and unusually, contains 2 national holidays - Easter Monday (25th April) and also the Royal Wedding holiday of Prince William & Kate Middleton (29th April). Gamers celebrated by keeping the previous week’s new No1 & No2 exactly where they were, with Valve/EA’s ‘Portal 2’ (-51%) on top for a second consecutive week since launch and Warner Bros. Interactive’s ‘Mortal Kombat’ (-42%) remaining at No2. 505 Games climb one place to No3 with ‘Zumba Fitness’ ( -21%) as the PS3 version debuts this week, five weeks after the launch of the hugely popular Wii version – the PS3 version has not lit up the market in the same way with 10% of sales across the 3 formats. Codemasters’ new entry from last week ‘Operation Flashpoint: Red River’ (-21%) moves in the right direction, up 2 places to No4. Sega chose this week to launch two new titles – ‘Virtua Tennis 4’ on PS3/360/Wii is new at No23 but ‘Thor: God of Thunder’ fails to make an impact on the Top 40. Week 17, 2011 - Individual Formats (Units) 01 (01) 360 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 02 (05) WII Zumba Fitness (505 Games) 03 (03) 360 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 04 (02) PS3 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 05 (04) PS3 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 06 (08) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) 07 (07) 360 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Codemasters) 08 (09) 360 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 09 (13) WII Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft) 10 (10) NDS Pokemon Black Version (Nintendo) 11 (14) 360 Fifa 11 (Electronic Arts) 12 (11) NDS Pokemon White Version (Nintendo) 13 (12) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) 14 (30) 360 Kinect Sports (Microsoft) 15 (18) 360 Homefront (Thq) 16 (21) PS3 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Codemasters) 17 (25) 360 Carnival Games: In Action! (Take 2) 18 (16) 360 Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 19 (06) PS3 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 20 (15) 360 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 21 (38) 360 Michael Jackson: The Experience (Ubisoft) 22 (19) PS3 Fifa 11 (Electronic Arts) 23 (23) WII Wii Party (Nintendo) 24 (22) PS3 Littlebigplanet 2 (Sony Computer Ent.) 25 (27) PS3 Homefront (Thq) 26 (26) NDS Art Academy (Nintendo) 27 (__) PS3 Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 28 (__) 360 Halo: Reach (Microsoft) 29 (17) PC Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 30 (37) 360 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 12: The Masters (Electronic Arts) 31 (36) PS3 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 12: The Masters (Electronic Arts) 32 (24) PS3 Socom: Special Forces (Sony Computer Ent.) 33 (39) 360 Dragon Age Ii (Electronic Arts) 34 (__) PC Football Manager 2011 (Sega) 35 (20) PS3 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 36 (29) NDS Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 37 (__) PS3 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft) 38 (__) 360 Test Drive Unlimited 2 (Namco Bandai Games) 39 (__) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft) 40 (__) 360 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
Dante Posted May 9, 2011 Posted May 9, 2011 UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 18, 2011 505 Games show they have stamina by returning to the top this week to mark the third week at No1 for ‘Zumba Fitness’ (-3%), just pushing ahead of EA’s ‘Portal 2’ (-43%) which is down to No2. The rest of the chart also sees a shuffle around with Warner Bros.’ ‘Mortal Kombat’ (-52%) at No3 and Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ (-2%) at No4. Both LucasArts’ ‘Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars’ (-29%) and EA’s ‘FIFA 11’ (-41%) move up a place at No5 and No6 respectively. Codemasters’ ‘Operation Flashpoint: Red River’ (-50%) has fallen down three places from No4 to No7 and Nintendo’s ‘Wii Fit Plus’ (-31%) holds fast at No8. It’s Nintendo again at No9 with ‘Pokemon Black Version’ (-20%) with Ubisoft’s ‘Just Dance 2’ (-30%) holding firm at No10. Outside of the Top 10 we have City Interactive’s ‘Sniper: Ghost Warrior’ (+457%) back in the charts thanks to the release of the PS3 version at No15. Week 18, 2011 - Individual Formats (Units) 01 (02) WII Zumba Fitness (505 Games) 02 (01) 360 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 03 (08) 360 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 04 (03) 360 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 05 (04) PS3 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 06 (06) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) 07 (05) PS3 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 08 (10) NDS Pokemon Black Version (Nintendo) 09 (09) WII Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft) 10 (12) NDS Pokemon White Version (Nintendo) 11 (07) 360 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Codemasters) 12 (14) 360 Kinect Sports (Microsoft) 13 (__) PS3 Sniper: Ghost Warrior (City Interactive) 14 (11) 360 Fifa 11 (Electronic Arts) 15 (13) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) 16 (19) PS3 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 17 (17) 360 Carnival Games: In Action! (Take 2) 18 (__) WII Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo) 19 (23) WII Wii Party (Nintendo) 20 (34) PC Football Manager 2011 (Sega) 21 (__) PS3 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2) 22 (__) PS3 Virtua Tennis 4 (Sega) 23 (21) 360 Michael Jackson: The Experience (Ubisoft) 24 (16) PS3 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Codemasters) 25 (15) 360 Homefront (Thq) 26 (18) 360 Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 27 (26) NDS Art Academy (Nintendo) 28 (20) 360 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 29 (28) 360 Halo: Reach (Microsoft) 30 (39) WII Just Dance (Ubisoft) 31 (__) 360 Shift 2: Unleashed (Electronic Arts) 32 (__) 360 Zumba Fitness (505 Games) 33 (27) PS3 Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 34 (__) WII Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 35 (__) 360 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2) 36 (38) 360 Test Drive Unlimited 2 (Namco Bandai Games) 37 (32) PS3 Socom: Special Forces (Sony Computer Ent.) 38 (29) PC Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 39 (__) PS3 Killzone 3 (Sony Computer Ent.) 40 (__) WII Michael Jackson: The Experience (Ubisoft)
Dante Posted May 16, 2011 Posted May 16, 2011 UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 19, 2011 Bethesda’s ‘Brink’ FPS debuts at No1 for 360/PS3/PC. Developed in the UK by London-based ‘Splash Damage’, this is the developer widely known for the online-only ‘Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory’ (released in 2003) and in terms of physical product ‘Enemy Territory: Quake Wars’, originally released on PC and debuted at No1 in the UK PC Full Price Chart back in week 39, 2007. Also new this week and debuting at No2 is Disney Interactive Studios’ multi-format ‘Lego Pirates of the Caribbean’. This is a good week for UK development as this title was created by Traveller’s Tales, based in the North-West of England. ‘Zumba Fitness’ from 505 Games is pushed down from No1 to No3 (-2%) and EA’s ‘Portal 2’ dips 2 places to No4 (-42%). Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ drops one place to No5 (-19%) followed at No6 by Warner Bros. Interactive and ‘Mortal Kombat’ (-39%) down 3 places from No3. The only other new entry is THQ’s ‘MX vs ATV Alive’ for 360/PS3 (developed by THQ Digital Studios Phoenix, USA) and debuts at No10: two-thirds of the sales are for the Xbox 360 version. Week 19, 2011 - Individual Formats (Units) 01 (__) 360 Brink (Bethesda Softworks) 02 (01) WII Zumba Fitness (505 Games) 03 (__) 360 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 04 (__) PS3 Brink (Bethesda Softworks) 05 (__) PS3 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 06 (__) WII Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 07 (03) 360 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 08 (02) 360 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 09 (09) WII Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft) 10 (06) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) 11 (04) 360 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 12 (05) PS3 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 13 (__) NDS Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 14 (__) PC Brink (Bethesda Softworks) 15 (08) NDS Pokemon Black Version (Nintendo) 16 (13) PS3 Sniper: Ghost Warrior (City Interactive) 17 (07) PS3 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 18 (10) NDS Pokemon White Version (Nintendo) 19 (__) 360 Mx Vs Atv Alive (Thq) 20 (14) 360 Fifa 11 (Electronic Arts) 21 (18) WII Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo) 22 (11) 360 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Codemasters) 23 (28) 360 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 24 (39) PS3 Killzone 3 (Sony Computer Ent.) 25 (35) 360 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2) 26 (19) WII Wii Party (Nintendo) 27 (20) PC Football Manager 2011 (Sega) 28 (15) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) 29 (12) 360 Kinect Sports (Microsoft) 30 (26) 360 Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 31 (16) PS3 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 32 (34) WII Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 33 (17) 360 Carnival Games: In Action! (Take 2) 34 (27) NDS Art Academy (Nintendo) 35 (__) PS3 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 36 (40) WII Michael Jackson: The Experience (Ubisoft) 37 (29) 360 Halo: Reach (Microsoft) 38 (__) 3DS Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 39 (31) 360 Shift 2: Unleashed (Electronic Arts) 40 (21) PS3 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2)
Dante Posted May 23, 2011 Posted May 23, 2011 UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 20, 2011 It’s no mystery as to what is No1 this week, as Rockstar/Take 2’s ‘L.A. Noire’ debuts at the top of the All Formats Chart, becoming the fastest-selling new video game IP ever in the UK. Sales are on a par with the launch of Rockstar’s previous chart topper ‘Red Dead Redemption’ which was released exactly a year ago. Both titles were launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 with Red Dead Redemption showing a 65% Xbox 360 and 35% PS3 split, compared to L.A. Noire’s share of 58% on Xbox 360 and 42% on PS3. L.A. Noire positions itself as the 13th fastest-selling Xbox 360 game in the UK and the 11th fastest on PS3. Disney’s ‘Lego Pirates of the Caribbean’ (-6%) holds on to No2 as last week’s No1, ‘Brink’ (-48%) slips to No3. Sales of ‘Zumba Fitness’ (-6%) remain relatively stable, as it makes way for L.A. Noire by only dropping one place to No4. Namco Bandai’s ‘The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings’ on PC is the only other new entry to break into the All Formats Chart this week, entering at a very respectable No5 – outselling the original title’s launch week sales by more than 3 to 1. Price promotion on ‘Crysis 2’ (+71%) sees it jump from No9 to No6, while EA’s other sequel ‘Portal 2’ (-22%) moves in the opposite direction, down from No4 to No7. EA’s 3rd Top 10 title this week, ‘FIFA 11’ (+17%) stays put at No8, having only spent one week outside the Top 10 since it was launched 34 weeks ago. ‘Mortal Kombat’ (-22%) hangs on to a Top 10 position despite slipping from No6 to No9, while ‘Black Ops’ (-35%) also clings on to the Top 10, down from No5 to No10. The launch of a new Wii value hardware bundle with Mario Kart sees the Nintendo classic motor back into the Top 40 at No23 (+266%). Week 20, 2011 - Individual Formats (Units) 01 (__) 360 L.a. Noire (Take 2) 02 (__) PS3 L.a. Noire (Take 2) 03 (01) 360 Brink (Bethesda Softworks) 04 (02) WII Zumba Fitness (505 Games) 05 (03) 360 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 06 (__) PC The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings (Namco Bandai Games) 07 (06) WII Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 08 (04) PS3 Brink (Bethesda Softworks) 09 (05) PS3 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 10 (09) WII Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft) 11 (13) NDS Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 12 (28) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) 13 (23) 360 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 14 (07) 360 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 15 (08) 360 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 16 (20) 360 Fifa 11 (Electronic Arts) 17 (10) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) 18 (15) NDS Pokemon Black Version (Nintendo) 19 (11) 360 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 20 (12) PS3 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 21 (35) PS3 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 22 (34) NDS Art Academy (Nintendo) 23 (__) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 24 (17) PS3 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 25 (__) PC The Sims: Medieval (Electronic Arts) 26 (21) WII Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo) 27 (18) NDS Pokemon White Version (Nintendo) 28 (29) 360 Kinect Sports (Microsoft) 29 (22) 360 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Codemasters) 30 (16) PS3 Sniper: Ghost Warrior (City Interactive) 31 (19) 360 Mx Vs Atv Alive (Thq) 32 (25) 360 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2) 33 (40) PS3 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2) 34 (27) PC Football Manager 2011 (Sega) 35 (26) WII Wii Party (Nintendo) 36 (__) 360 Homefront (Thq) 37 (__) 360 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft) 38 (30) 360 Lego Star Wars Iii: The Clone Wars (Lucasarts) 39 (38) 3DS Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 40 (__) PS3 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)
Dante Posted May 31, 2011 Posted May 31, 2011 UK TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - Week 21, 2011 Rockstar/Take 2’s crime solving title ‘L.A. Noire’ (-43%) continues to dominate the chart this week, easily holding off Codemasters’ new entry, racing sequel, ‘Dirt 3’ which debuts at No2. Dirt 3 shows an Xbox 360 heavy following with 67% of the share versus PS3’s 37% and despite outselling its predecessor it had to settle for second on the podium again. The release of Dirt 3 means that Disney’s ‘Lego Pirates of the Caribbean’ (-32%) sinks to No3 with 505 Games’ ‘Zumba Fitness’ (+19%) keeping up the pace holding No4. Bethesda’s FPS ‘Brink’ takes a hit, dropping 52% of sales this week, down to No5 whereas Nintendo’s ‘Wii Sports Resort’ sees a healthy increase in sales, up 145%, thanks to price promotions on the Wii hardware bundle. After the build-up to the Champions League final EA’s ‘FIFA 11’ also sees a rise in sales, up 50%, taking No7 followed by another chart topper seeing a resurgence, Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ (+39%), up to No8. EA’s FPS ‘Crysis 2’ (-12%) drops back to No9 this week with Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart Wii’ (+148%) hot on the heels at No10 thanks to the new Wii hardware bundle with the game included. There were no other new entries making the chart this week. Week 21, 2011 - Individual Formats (Units) 01 (01) 360 L.a. Noire (Take 2) 02 (02) PS3 L.a. Noire (Take 2) 03 (__) 360 Dirt 3 (Codemasters) 04 (04) WII Zumba Fitness (505 Games) 05 (__) PS3 Dirt 3 (Codemasters) 06 (12) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) 07 (05) 360 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 08 (03) 360 Brink (Bethesda Softworks) 09 (23) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 10 (07) WII Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 11 (10) WII Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft) 12 (16) 360 Fifa 11 (Electronic Arts) 13 (14) 360 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) 14 (09) PS3 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 15 (17) WII Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) 16 (22) NDS Art Academy (Nintendo) 17 (11) NDS Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean (Disney Interactive Studios) 18 (08) PS3 Brink (Bethesda Softworks) 19 (13) 360 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 20 (15) 360 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 21 (21) PS3 Crysis 2 (Electronic Arts) 22 (18) NDS Pokemon Black Version (Nintendo) 23 (35) WII Wii Party (Nintendo) 24 (28) 360 Kinect Sports (Microsoft) 25 (06) PC The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings (Namco Bandai Games) 26 (26) WII Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo) 27 (__) PS3 Killzone 3 (Sony Computer Ent.) 28 (20) PS3 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 29 (__) 360 Zumba Fitness (505 Games) 30 (30) PS3 Sniper: Ghost Warrior (City Interactive) 31 (27) NDS Pokemon White Version (Nintendo) 32 (32) 360 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2) 33 (24) PS3 Portal 2 (Electronic Arts) 34 (19) 360 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. Interactive) 35 (__) PS3 Fifa 11 (Electronic Arts) 36 (34) PC Football Manager 2011 (Sega) 37 (__) PS3 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 12: The Masters (Electronic Arts) 38 (__) 360 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 12: The Masters (Electronic Arts) 39 (33) PS3 Red Dead Redemption (Take 2) 40 (__) PS3 Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard)
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