UK Videogame Charts: Week 31
Proper games be damned. If you're not on the Wii, you're not selling.Published 04/08/2009 at 10:00.
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It seems like the Wii, despite slowing hardware sales, still has the UK pretty much sewn up. That’ll be 6 Wii ‘games’ in the top 7, and only Mario Kart Wii is what I’d personally consider a ‘proper game’. Still, it’s good to see Fight Night Round 4 up there – EA’s fortunes in the charts are evident with a massive amount of games in there from the publisher.
Elsewhere it’s a similar story with regards to older titles: Call of Duty 4, Mario Kart DS and New Super Mario Bros show no signs of ever being unpopular, and although most of the chart is made up of shooters and licensed games, there’s still a few gems in there – Professor Layton, for example, amongst the three (count ‘em) fitness training games current forming much of the Wii’s line-up.
01 (01) WII Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
02 (02) WII Wii Fit (Nintendo)
03 (03) PC The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
04 (04) WII Ea Sports Active (Electronic Arts)
05 (05) WII Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
06 (11) WII Wii Play (Nintendo)
07 (10) 360 Fight Night Round 4 (Electronic Arts)
08 (15) PS3 Fight Night Round 4 (Electronic Arts)
09 (06) WII Tiger Woods Pga Tour 10 (Electronic Arts)
10 (07) NDS Professor Layton And The Curious Village (Nintendo)
11 (16) NDS Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo)
12 (25) PS3 Ufc 2009: Undisputed (Thq)
13 (13) 360 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 10 (Electronic Arts)
14 (12) NDS Harry Potter & The Half-blood Prince (Electronic Arts)
15 (14) PS3 Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood (Ubisoft)
16 (26) 360 Ufc 2009: Undisputed (Thq)
17 (24) NDS Mario Kart Ds (Nintendo)
18 (18) 360 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
19 (17) PS3 Tiger Woods Pga Tour 10 (Electronic Arts)
20 (23) PS3 Infamous (Sony Computer Ent.)
21 (33) WII My Fitness Coach: Get In Shape (Ubisoft)
22 (08) WII Harry Potter & The Half-blood Prince (Electronic Arts)
23 (30) NDS Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Disney Interactive Studios)
24 (34) NDS Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
25 (09) 360 Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (Activision Blizzard)
26 (20) 360 Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood (Ubisoft)
27 (21) WII Grand Slam Tennis (Electronic Arts)
28 (31) 360 Sega Superstars Tennis (Sega)
29 (19) NDS Rhythm Paradise (Nintendo)
30 (37) WII Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)
31 (36) NDS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
32 (__) 360 Red Faction: Guerrilla (Thq)
33 (__) NDS Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
34 (28) 360 [prototype] (Activision Blizzard)
35 (__) 360 Halo 3 (Microsoft)
36 (39) NDS Mystery Stories (Gsp/avanquest)
37 (29) PS3 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
38 (__) NDS Mysims Racing (Electronic Arts)
39 (35) PS3 Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Sony Computer Ent.)
40 (__) 360 Halo Wars (Microsoft)
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Gastos84 | 04/08/2009 10:03
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No wonder the games industry looks troubled. People are buying crap (imo :) )
It’s not until number 15 that I saw a half decent game (again imo :) )
cc_star | 04/08/2009 10:13
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And they are the dearest games to make as well
Gastos84 | 04/08/2009 10:20
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Exactly. No wonder MW2 keeps creeping up in price. The serious gamers are the people that are going to suffer for it, people will hold off buying them new due to costs, price will increase again, circle repeats.
BalramRules | 04/08/2009 11:32
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I only think that inFamous, Ghostbusters and Call of Jaurez were kl, the rest were too easy for the devs to make excluding HP6 although I never even liked that game, too many silly trophy glitches and EA won’t fix IT!!!
The only things from now on I’m going to use from EA is the EA Green and Red Poker Room loool
cc_star | 04/08/2009 11:36
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eh?
LycanGav | 04/08/2009 10:07
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For all the fuss over initial sales figures, I see that Prototype is plunging down the chart quicker than a Cold War era Russian submarine while Infamous’ legs are holding up a bit better. One game each in the top ten for the two “main” consoles though, AND it’s an EA title! Meanwhile Nintendo have 10 of the top twenty titles. What a crazy crazy world we live in these days.
cc_star | 04/08/2009 10:11
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Wii Sports resort comes with Motion Plus,
Wii Fit comes with the balance board
EA Sports Active comes with the active stuff
Mario Kart comes with a wheel
Wii Play comes with the Wii Remote and 90% of people who buy the console buy it, to use as a second controller
lessons to be learned: If you are a games publisher and want your game to be top of charts for years in a row bundle it with something.
Most people aren’t buying the game which is appearing in the charts they’re buying the thing it comes with, and usually as an add-on at the same time as buying the console
I wonder if Sony bundled a second controller with LBP if that would climb up the charts.
cc_star | 04/08/2009 10:21
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The first Wii game which isn’t bundled with an accessory is Tiger Woods at #9 which is being outsold by FNR4 on both the PS3 & 360, and Sims3 on PC
Is the answer to strip these bundled products out the chart or for other manufacturers to get bundling? LBP would be perfect for that, and with an alternative of an 18 rated local multiplayer game as well.
BalramRules | 04/08/2009 11:35
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nah, LBP should be bundled with a keypad instead, afterall, if you’re a young 7 year old, you’re going to find it frustrating to talk don’t you think?
cc_star | 04/08/2009 11:39
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The shape of the PS3 pad is hard enough for small hands to use, I think the keypad would be completely unusable
BetaGhast | 04/08/2009 10:16
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nothing but EA and Nintendo in the top 10.
omg…
bajere | 04/08/2009 10:17
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The wii titles are a bit wrong…
i have a wii:
i bought a pad -> you get wii play
i got wii motion+ -> came with a game (tiger woods, but could be sports res)
i got the balance board for boxing and snowboarding – wii fit comes with it
i bet lots of people get these games but only for the accessory’s they come with! wii play is the bigest joke as it not really a game, it teaches you how to use the controller!!!
nice to see FNR4 on the PS3 up there, good game!
bajere | 04/08/2009 10:18
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bit slow on the reply, cc_star got there 1st.lol
BalramRules | 04/08/2009 11:38
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I always try 2 be the 1st replier but the prob. is thst its only ever happenned 1ce to me as I always type with my PS3 Controller lool
Dafro1989 | 04/08/2009 12:10
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It almost makes for sad reading. Charts from the PS2/Xbox/GC gen never looked THIS bad. Sure FIFA/Pro Evo always sold stupidly well (even if they weren’t good!), but at least the top 20 could have a few ‘proper’ games in it. This looks more like the videogame list a mum would produce when buying presents for Christmas:
“I’ll treat myself to Wii Fit, Fight Night for the boys, Motion Plus for little Sally, Tiger Woods for their dad…”
Maybe Japan’s charts would make me less cynical.
Shotgun75 | 04/08/2009 12:52
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My thoughts exactly. There is a little bit of me that feels that the Wii is abomanation. Im not sure how Nintendo handles its 3rd party publishers but if you were a bean counter at a publishers surely you would be clambering all over Nintendo to make quick/cheap ‘mums and dads’ titles for the Wii, that will sell by the bucket load, rather than a multi-million dollar, average sellers for the PS3.
Bilbo_bobbins | 04/08/2009 13:35
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it really is amazing. I find it amazing that only about 4 games on the ps3 are in there. People will get bored of the Wii soon enough I think. It’s great but they can’t keep bringing out hew hardware that goes with certain games, people will click on in the end.
Downey92 | 04/08/2009 14:30
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What are the inside numbers for and why are they jumbled up?
JamboGT | 04/08/2009 14:43
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That is the previous position in the chart.
stuzzy | 04/08/2009 15:43
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WOW am shocked i thought fight night would be first :o
coolgr33k | 04/08/2009 17:49
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eh wii is dominating as usual. at least infamous is up there.
but whaaa call of duty 4 is still in the charts?! whats gona happen with codmw2, thats gona stay in the charts for eternity! – but who doesnt like cod4.