Latest UK Charts (w/e 27/09/08) - now with hardware figures!

Unstoppable Force

The top 3 games in the All Formats Chart remain the same for a second week as Lucasarts’ ‘Star Wars: The Force Unleashed’ holds on to No1 despite a 38% drop in sales.

Nintendo’s ‘Wii Fit’ at No2 is continuing to shape up nicely, registering its 3rd largest sales week ever with a 75% rise in sales, while ‘Mario Kart Wii’ is a non-mover at No3 (sales up 26%). Ubisoft’s ‘Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway’ enters the battlefield at No4, only 2,250 sales behind Nintendo (65% of sales on Xbox 360, 35% on PS3), while Disney Interactive Studios has this weeks only other All Formats Top 10 new entry with ‘Pure’ at No8. This week last year there were 4 All Formats Top 10 new entries, including ‘Halo 3’ at No1 and ‘FIFA 08’ at No2. EA only have one Top 10 game this week with ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09’ down one place at No5, as ‘Mercenaries 2: World in Flames’ drops from No6 to No11, however ‘FIFA 09’ should kick start things for the big US publisher when it is launched next week. The ‘Wii Fit’ influenced game ‘Family Trainer’ from Namco-Bandai/Atari debuts at No20, proving that even with renewed stock of the Nintendo original, there is a market for similar fitness titles on Wii.

Eighthours wrote:De Blob's non-entry is unsurprising, given that about zero pounds was spent on the marketing. A wasted opportunity, methinks.

Yoshimi wrote:I think Pure is going to slip under a lot of people's radar. It's such a fantastic game with some incredibly stunning tracks. Although I'm sure it's done better than expected thanks to the demo.

KKLEIN wrote:

Eighthours wrote:De Blob's non-entry is unsurprising, given that about zero pounds was spent on the marketing. A wasted opportunity, methinks.

It did. it just all went on sponsoring...



...programming.

emilythestrange wrote:I still can't believe how well Wii Fit is doing, it's quite amazing.

Console installed base almost doubles in UK

New figures from data specialist GfK Chart Track have revealed the current installed base for console hardware in the UK.

As of September 2008, the PlayStation 3 has reached 1.4 million units, the Xbox 360 2.3 million and the Wii 3.6 million units.

The numbers show considerable growth from 2007 – both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have shifted a million units since the same period last year when their installed base was 0.4 million and 1.3 million, respectively.

However, it's Nintendo's Wii that has boomed in the region, from 1.1 million units in September 2007 to the current 3.6 million units.

In the battle of the handhelds, the DS has also shot up in the UK from 3.8 million to 7.1 million units in the space of a year, while the PSP has registered a more modest growth in comparison, from 2.2 million to 2.9 million units.

The installed base for all five consoles has almost doubled in the UK from 8.8 million to 17.3 million in twelve months

The data comes from High Street retailer The Game Group, which estimates that by Christmas the installed base for the Wii will reach 4.9 million units, the Xbox 360 2.8 million and the PS3 1.9 million units.

DS units are expected to climb a further 1.2 million to 8.3 million and the PSP to 3.1 million.

Eighthours wrote:

KKLEIN wrote:

Eighthours wrote:De Blob's non-entry is unsurprising, given that about zero pounds was spent on the marketing. A wasted opportunity, methinks.

It did. it just all went on sponsoring...



...programming.

What a brilliant demographic to target for this kind of game! Epic fail.