Article written by Tuffcub.
Published on 10/01/2011 at 04:00 PM.
The UKIE (The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment) have released charts for the best selling games of 2010, and you win absolutely zero TSA points if you guessed Call Of Duty: Black Ops shifted the most units.
Sadly the charts show that new and original games floundered badly as there are only three new IP’s spread between all eight charts, namely LittleBigPlanet on the PSP, Art Academy on the DS, and Just Dance on the Wii.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops tops the all formats, PS3 and Xbox 360 charts, and Professor Layton and the Lost Future replicates last year’s top spot for Professor Layton and the Lost Village on the DS.
Wii owners seem to be the most active with four out of the top five titles requiring you to get up and move rather than slouch on the sofa.
2010 All Formats Chart
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- FIFA 11
- Just Dance
- Red Dead Redemption
- Wii Fit Plus
- Just Dance 2
- Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
- Wii Sports Resort
- Halo: Reach
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
2010 Nintendo Wii Chart
- Just Dance
- Wii Fit Plus
- Just Dance 2
- Wii Sports Resort
- New Super Mario Bros WII
2010 Sony PlayStation 3 Chart
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops
- FIFA 11
- Gran Turismo 5
- Red Dead Redemption
- Assassins Creed: Brotherhood
2010 XBox 360 Chart
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops
- FIFA 11
- Halo: Reach
- Red Dead Redemption
- Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
2010 Nintendo DS Chart
- Professor Layton And The Lost Future
- New Super Mario Bros
- Art Academy
- Pokemon Soulsilver
- Mario Kart DS
2010 Sony PSP Chart
- FIFA 11
- LittleBigPlanet
- Gran Turismo
- Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines
- Fifa 10
2010 PC Chart
- Football Manager 2011
- Football Manager 2010
- The Sims 3
- World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Source: UKIE
Funny how the 3rd place only changes in PS3 and Xbox charts, and they are both exclusives!
I don’t see how thats funny, Cod & Fifa sell well always…
It’s about the respective exclusives selling enough to be in the same position on each respective chart. It is a little funny/odd/peculiar.
What mike said
Perhaps no surprises, love the PC chart with entries from FM
My understanding is that Just Dance was the top selling game of the year, beating both Black Ops PS3 and Black Ops Xbox 360 and its only when they combine in the All Formats chart (as shown above) they they overcome the dance phenomenon
As soon as someone mentions Just Dance my brain automatically adds “gonna be okay, da da doo-doo mmm”
Mine too. Damn that’s GaGa woman and her infectious music/ noise.
GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD
If you look at the best selling newspapers or the biggest takings at the box office… Is it really any surprise? Any year? We all appear to love a little shameless entertainment from time to time. :-)
Ignoring the top two. I’m surprised, and pleased that GT5 gets in there as high as it does for the PS3, but where’s NFS Hot Pursuit? Or Medal of Honor?
I would love to ses the actual numbers for each individual title against each other and platform.
At retail:
i)Xbox 360 sold £538m worth of games consisting of 18.2m sales
b) PS3 sold £414m worth of games consisting of just 13.8m sales
I don’t know how that translates into individual titles though
At retail:
i)Xbox 360 sold £538m worth of games consisting of 18.2m sales
b) PS3 sold £414m worth of games consisting of just 13.8m sales
3) Don’t know about Ninty or PC, but total gaming revenue including consoles, games & accessories was £2.875bn revenue down from £3.3bn the year before
I don’t know how that translates into individual titles though
I imagine the XBOX 360 hardware figures to be higher than the PS3′s hardware figures due to the lack of reliablity of XBOX 360 consoles. We’ve all heard the stories of people having THREE Xbox 360′s…. It all adds up
God.., why does this issue always comes up
Be interesting to know how many were needed to get on the lists, I was at least expecting Heavy Rain to make the PS3 list as it sold a hell of a lot.
Funny to see GT5 and Halo came in the same place for each of there consoles!
How depressingly predictable, at what stage do analysts think people will tire of sequels?
Anyone happen to know what the US version of these lists are? I’m just wondering if they are basically the same, or dramatically different?
Swap FIFA for Madden?
Yep… that is one difference I was guessing, and possibly seeing RDR a little higher? I personally played the crap out of that game. :)
Gran Turismo 5 must’ve sold like hot cakes to be ahead of Red Dead Redemption which was released way before…..
Not that surprising, although I didn’t that Just Dance was quite that popular.